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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
More Than $100 Left After 4000 are Given Away; Large Saving on Printing
For the first time since its appearance on the hik the K book, official guide for the university, which is published annually by a group of students organizations, did not leave a defeat. Instead, its publication has reached 58,858 according to Harvey Walker, chairman of the publication committee.
This year over 4,000 K books were given away, while last year they were sold for twenty-five cents and only 500 were purchased. The only difference in the book from last year is the cover, last year it was of leather, and this year the cover was made of heavy paper.
Printing Rate Reduced
A principal reason which made the publication of the K book cheaper this year was the reduced rate of printing. It was printed by the journalism press for half the cost of what has been paid in the past.
Statement Given in Full
"The success of the K book is due to the splendid work of Harvey Walker," said Dean Dyer, "and a great deal of credit should be given the journalism press for the great saving in the printing of the book."
Following is the statement of receipts and disbursements for the 192 K book:
Receipts:
Men's Student Council $100.00
Women's Student Government
- Woman's College 15.00
University of Kansas 160.00
Advertising 187.50
Disbursements:
Journalism Press $310.00
Expenses (map, trip,
typing copy).
Rollback Men's Student
Balance 25.00
Council 103.85
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Biehl Discusses Cities
$468,50
Civic Manager Expert Sees Room For Progress
"Most business, no matter how progressive, presents opportunities for improvement," said Richard Bich of the Federation magazine, while discussing the essentials of a city manager. "The same is true in the managing of a city or village. The City Manager must be able to address the affairs of his city on a business basis."
Kansas is well represented in the list of states which have taken up this new form of city government, Atchison, McCracken, McCracken, St. Marys, Salina, Stockton, Wichita, and Winfield are all on the List.
Under the City Manager plan, a commission is elected by the city. This commission appoints the city manager for the administrative head of the city. The manager has no power to pass orders on behalf of the mayor. He merely carries out the orders of the mayor and acts as a sort of middleman between him and the work itself. The manager is eligible to active membership in the City Manager Association, and through monthly meetings he is involved in its book in touch with the municipal work in other cities. Lawrence has no city manager. However, there must be advantages in this new form of municipal administration as eight more cities of Kansan are now compiling their records, Wallington, Parsons, Fort Scott, Pittsburgh, Uberla, Liberal, and Glaso.
The commission-manager plan was first adopted by Sumter, South Carolina, in 1913, and the plan has been progressing ever since.
John T. Copely, of Topkea, is on the Hill today to attend the Kansas Academy of Science. Although Mr. Kennedy has been unable to read for many years, he takes a very great interest in these matters. He has answered roll call at every one of the last twenty meetings.
Senator Ralph Gates and wife, of Seward, spent Sunday in Lawrence with their son Arthur, 125, and daughters, Vida, 126, and Cars, 123. Senator Gates is one of the two Democrats in the present state legislature.
Alpha Delta Pi sorority entertained with a formal dance at Wiedemann's on Friday evening.
Tryouts for "Mr. Pim"
Carried Over to Monday
Troyouts for "Mr. Fim Passes By," the second production of the K. U. Dramatic club this year, will continue this afternoon at 2:30 p.m. They will last most of the afternoon. "This may be the final try-out," said Miss Cecile Burton, of the department of public speaking.
Miss Burton went on to say that no one had been definitely assigned to any of the seven parts of the play and that there is a chance for anyone interested. Three women and four men compose the cast. The play has been released for amateur production within the last two or three months.
California Professor Says Women in Class Help Men's Manners
Deplores the Fact That so Few Girls Enroll For Mining
Courses
Women in a classroom tend to improve the manners of the men students, according to Prof. A. S. Eake, who taught at the University of California, "Without feminine influence, men are apt to become roughnecks and for this reason Professor Eake deplores the so few girls take his sources.
"Why do girls want to cut up mess cats and rats in a zoology course," he continues, "when they might study clean stones?" I wish college women would get away from the courses that have been made by them as their science subjects.
"But there are two reasons," he explains, "why more women do not enroll in mining courses. In the first case, girls can enroll to an矿业 in a mineralogy class.
"Men in mining departments are cepted woman-haters of the school. They are very critical and their ideas about women are," he says, "impossible. When a women enters a mineralogy class she is the cynomous of men who do not believe than that the men discuss her dispassionately without any regard for her feelings. The second reason why more women do not take mineralogy courses," and Professor Eakle, "is that stones are such innumerate objects. If they could see the stones they would flock to my courses."
Professor Eakle expressed the belief that some day college women would go in for mining at least to some extent. He believes that women will become quite interested in certain branches of mineralogy.
Knox College Celebrates
Eighty-sixth Birthday Exercises Held at Galesburg
Knox College, Galesburg, Ill., celebrated on Friday the eighty-seventh anniversary of the founding of the college. In 1837, a small band of men from the East struggled westward, braving the dangers of the frontier, to found a Christian college on the barren prairies of Illinois.
The program of the exercises consisted of a special chapel service in the afternoon, with David Kinley, president of the University of Illinois, as the speaker. A basketball game in the afternoon and the annual banquet in the evening concluded the festivities.
Meetings of the various Knox clubs scattered throughout the country were also held in memory of the founding of the college.
The Methodist Student Association of the University of Kansas was organized by the three student Sunday School classes yesterday morning, and a constitution was formally adopted. The purpose of the association is to unite all Methodist student of the University in the promotion of a more vital religious education, and of a wholesome social fellowship.
Methodist Students Organize
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Strange Sounds and Unknown Lights Accompany Headless Horseman on Nocturnal Ride
The headless horseman of sleepy hollow and the will o' the wisp of the marshes have a rival. Just as the schoolboy has begun to evict the belief in the ghostly origin of whales, so the sea under such an occurrence near home. On the prairies in the southwest corner of Kanaan near Elkhart, there has been observed for the past fifteen years a most unusual light. It is seen as a ghost light" as the phoenix never has been explained.
one light is dull red in color. When it was observed close at hand, it was the size of a wagon wheel, but seen farther away it looks greater than the light shed by a lantern.
About five miles east of Elkhart, and extending to the northeast for them, finally disappearing, perhaps another five miles is a narrow ridge rising悬崖 from the north. It is along this ridge that the spooky light is to be seen cavorting at irregular intervals and at unusual hours of the night. There is no way by which its appearance can be timed as it is sometimes months between the times it is co-located. It may be seen every night.
About midway on this ridge is the Prairie View school house, and it is near the school grounds that the light is most frequently seen.
The spot where the school house now stands was once the site of a pioneer boom-day prairie town, long ago off the map. An open well was put down to water in 1832, and there was an epidemic among the cattle and many of them died. Their carcasses were thrown into the well, and the story has it that a man was killed and his body thrown into the hole. About ten years ago the well was filled up, and a sunken spot, that marred the well.
Once as a meeting was going on at the school house the light appeared from the east, raised over
Kathleen Hood, of Greenleaf, spent the week-end at the Alpha Gamma Delta house visiting her sister, Romina Hood.
the school house, and traveled down the ridge. A number of boys on horseback chased it for several miles. It kept just ahead of them. When they turned to come back it followed them. On another occasion a young woman died. Two women sat up during the night with the body. This was at a place a mile from the schoolhouse. The light was seen on the ridge at the school house. Soon it started down the road, coming within a few holes of the house and returning. Three times it made this trip and then dis-
One night last winter as the W. P. Crawley family was returning from a program at Wilberton, a little hamlet three miles north of Wichita Falls, to light just east of that building. When they arrived home, at the foot of the ridge, just a third of a mile from the school, the light seemed to disappear, but was probably hidden in the wall. Later their son Clarence and another boy came from Wilberton on horse-back. They saw it; much the size of a big full, red-hued moon. Then it began traveling with a rolling moorhouse out to the barn, and then back to the school house and disappeared.
The most plausible explanation is that it is brought about by gas or some chemical combination of minerals. One story that has been told in a man shot at it once with a high power rifle. The light shot up into the air and exploded into atoms. The reason for this chemical theory is that this country lies in the Cimarron valley, which was located the only powdered silica mine in the world. A geologist who examined the country before the opening of the silica mine said that there were to be found in the Cimarron valley that must have been ablations of chemicals that he had ever observed.
Fred C. Back, Ellinwood, Kans,
former student of the University,
is spending a few days in Lawrence to
attend the Merchants' Short Course.
We Invite—
the merchants of the short course to inspect a thoroughly modern dry] cleaning plant.
New York Cleaners
836 Mass St. Phone 75
Organize Architects' Fraternity Prof. Joseph Kellogg and M. A. Abbitt, of the department of architecture, were present at the organization of a chapter of Alpha Rho Chi, national social fraternity of students of architecture, at Manhattan, February 10. The new organization is outward-bound to the field of architecture. A banquet and a reception and dance were features of the initiation of the new chapter. There are about twenty-five active members and all of the faculty of the department are honorary members.
Ellen Webb, fa25, who has been ill at her homes in Wichita for the last week, returned to Lawrence Saturday.
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Opens Short Story Contest
Mrs. Louisa Don Carlos will offer a prize of ten dollars for the best short story written by a woman of the department of journalism. This story, based on the asterem, after the decision is made by the judges, who will be chosen by Prof. L, N. Flint, of the de-
department of journalism. Mrs. Don Carlos has requested that two judges he submitted from the department of English, from the department of English.
Miss Nell Conroy, fa'22, spent the week-end at the Theta Phi Alpha house.
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BOWERSOCK THEATRE
TUESDAY, WEDNESDAY, THURSDAY
SHOWS: 3 7 9 PRICES: 33c 10c
One of Many Exciting Scenes From THE PRISONER OF ZENDA
A few of the fashion plates with "UP IN THE CLOUDS" the fascinating musical comedy which comes to the Bowersock Theatre on Friday, Febuary 23.