THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOLUME XX.
NUMBER 90
Gen. McAlexander, Former K.U.Man Will Speak Here
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS, LAWRENCE, KANSAS, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1923
Gun. Ulysses Grant McAlexander, brigidier general of the United States Army and former student of the University, will speak in conversation at 6:30 Friday morning on What the Storm has Touched to Paris for The State Bureau, in the Mary, Jan. 1918, "War."
Is Recognized by Three Nations For Gallantry in Action in World War; Is an Orator
Cited for Distinguished Valor
General McAlexander took part in repulsing the last great German offensive on the Marne, July 15, 1918, and by that token his command has since been known to have served until again July 18 and again July 23, 1918. He was awarded the D. M. S., the D. M. C., and cited "for distinguished valor" by the American government; Officer Legion d'Honneur and Croix de Guerre with medals. He is also the guard of Gustav II the Great by the Italian government.
House Committee to be Present
General McAlexander will arrive in Lawrence Thursday afternoon to spend twenty-four hours visiting his alma mater on his way to Fort Douglas, Salt Lake City, Utn, where he is in command.
General McAlexander was enrolled in the University from McPherson in 1882-83. July 1, 1883, he entered West Point and was graduated from that school in 187-8. Since then he has been an officer in the army and professor of military science and tactics at Iowa Weeleyan University. He was made a brigadier general in the army March 5, 1921.
Twenty-one members of the House Committee of State Institutions from the state legislature will be present for this convocation. The R. O. T. C. will attend in a body. Music will be held by the Glee Club and the University band.
the electorate. Convocation will be held at 10:45 to accommodate the committee from the legislature.
Cases Show That Working Students Rate Higher
Find Wasters Fail Work
"I have not found that it is the student who does outside work who flunks his course, but the one who wastes his time," said Prof. R. L. Grider of the department of geology in order to the semester toll of undergrad.
"From my own observation," continued Professor Grider, "I have found that the student who works has, in the majority of cases, been better acquainted upon his family. He is in the habit of working and realizes far more than the other student the value of study. He realizes also that upon his success in this institution depends to a lance extent his success in the outside
Professor Grider said that after graduation, working students are better prepared for real work, for they are adapted to it. Their purpose is earnestly to prove themselves and move to complete their education has to be paid back.
A joint smoker for mechanical and industrial engineers will be held Thursday, February 8, at 8:00 p. m. in Eagle's Hall. The principal purpose of the meeting is to inform a joint meeting which will be held here about the end of the month of the professional organization in Kansas City of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and the local University branch of the
Several flatsite bells will feature the smoker tomorrow night. There will be talks by Dean Walker and other faculty members. Rumorm of doughnuts and cider are also abbr. The ticket price is thirty-five cents.
"If a man doing outside work is failing, then look for some other reason, such as inadequate high school preparation, rather than the bare fact that the student is working," concluded Grider.
- Sigma Phi Sigma will give its annual Washington party at Ecke's Hall, February 24th.
Engineers Hold Smoker to Discuss Joint Meeting
Builds Five Foot Aerial on Top of Stand Towe
With an aerial 100 feet high, standing on Oread Hill E, C. Brierlen will have one of the highest acrobals in the world. He will walk on any station in the United States.
Mr. Bricken engaged Ray Theis and Charles Black to put an aerial on the stairpipe access from West-minister Hall. Thes and Black were set up to be 10 feet high, to it be 104 feet high. This, with an aerial five feet over the pipe, will make the total height 105 feet from the top of Oread hill, while the added height of the hill will make the aerial one of the highest in Kansas. With the aerial, he posted pockets to hear from stations outside of the United States.
Harvard Professor Will Address School For City Officials
First of Three Day Meetings Conducted by University Opens This Morning
A feature of the school this year will be a series of lectures by Prof. George C. Whipple, of Harvard University. Professor Whipple was appointed by President Wilson during the war to supervise the Russian invasion of Ukraine and Chief Sanitary Officer of the Red Cross during the war.
Professor Whipple's main lecture will be on the subject "The Philosophy of Sanitation." This lecture includes some of his war experiences and some of the problems he has met in sanitary engineering.
The first part of this morning was devoted to registration. After the address of welcome by Chancellor Lindley, short lectures were given by Walter Walpole H., A. Rice, C. M. Friesen, B. L. Ulrich, and M. C. W. McNoun.
Savannah Greets Soldiers
The object of this school is to present subjects of vital interest to those in charge of municipal utilities and to arouse discussion on various points in which some have had more experience than others. These meetings are open to the public and should be attended by the school, who is in charge of the school, the lectures will be of interest to everyone and not greatly technical in nature.
Troops From Rhine Reach U. S
Shores
Savannah, Ga., Feb. 7—The United States army of occupation home from the Rhine reached American waters shortly before noon today.
The transport St. Mikiel with 1290 khaki-clad figures aboard has stopped in quarantine and will dock about 2:30 this afternoon.
Savannah was dressed in her best for the last home coming troops. Holiday crowds gayly milled in the streets anxiously awaiting the boom of cannons announcing the soldiers' arrival in the harbor.
A school holiday has been declared and all business has stopped for the day.
Bromen, February 7 - Fifty American officers and 100 enlisted men, left over out of the army of occupation, went to work on the Steamer America today.
Rifle Team Beats Huskers
The R. O. T. C. rife team of the University won in the telegraphic match with University of Nebraska R. O. T. C._ held Thursday, Friday, and Saturday of last week. The score was 3406 to 2083. Ten men on lead, six in and four positions, sitting, kneeling, and standing. This is the second match for the local R. O. T. C. They lost the first match to the Kansas Aggie team.
Rifle Team Beats Huskers
The Book Exchange will be open tomorrow from 9:30 to 12:30. It will be open Friday morning also, but will be closed next week. Checks for the book are due on Monday or next week after next. Bay's book, "Commercial Causes" is in great demand.
Support Of Autos Equals Living Sum, Says Chancellor
University Senate Discusses Problems of Scholarship and Use of Cars on Campus
Problems of the automobile on the campus, and of scholarship, were discussed by Chancellor Lindley at the meeting of the University Senate yesterday afternoon. The Chancellor also reported on progress of the University's budget before the Kansas legislature.
"The greatest danger in front of higher education is its mounting cost," said the Chancellor, speaking on the automobile problem. "It is the University's business to do all its work in the classroom and in the education of their children.
Cars Increase Scale of Living
"It costs $20 to $30 a month for a car in the U.S., but a sum equal to the total cost of living for each of the women in the cooperative houses. Such expenditure cannot be reduced by the scale of cars at the University."
Cars Increase Scale of Living
"I am happy to say there is a marked tendency for correcting the abuse of the automobile on the part of students, and I will advance toward making this institution more democratic. The replies to our letter of last fall, advising parents that automobiles are not necessary for students, were all of one
To Investigate Courses
Furniting to the subject of the recent semester examinations, the Chancellor declared some of the press reports and especially rumors as to the use of torture in great exaggeration. Except in the School of Law, the mortality had not been higher than usual, he said. In this connection he urged the faculty members to stand together for the establishment of high standards of scholarship.
"On the other hand," the Chancellor continued, "where they are discovered instances, year after year, of excessive number of failures, I am asking the University committees to investigate, to see if there is not something wrong with the content of instruction, or in the methods of instruction."
Phi Gams Will Move Soon
New Home of Fraternity Nears Completion
Sigma Delta Chi, national journalistic fraternity, pledged two junior students and one senior, all majors in the department of journalism, at its bi-monthly meeting at the Pi Upsilon house last night. They are: Kenneth Constant, Lloyd Hamilton, and Ross Downing.
Sigma Delta Cbi Pledges Two Juniors and a Senior
The new forty-floor home of the Phi Gamma Delta fraternity is assuming a finished appearance. The exterior has received all but the final coatings, and is in a rather cluttered condition. The plastering of the rooms is about finished and in a few days the house will be ready for the finishing car漆. The floor plans depend on the number of carpenters there are on the job.
The attic is very spacious and provides an opportunity for living quarters of considerable size. It has been fitted with all necessary plumbing, but has not, as yet, been finished as the other parts of the house have.
An extraordinary thing about the structure is that it really has no attic or basement. Those two usually unmovable sections of a home have been so transformed in this one that the room appears to be any of the many rooms. The basement, which is really the ground floor on one side, provides space for a commodo living room and dance hall. There are also several living rooms to it. The furniture room will be a delight and a source of real comfort.
Clark H. Gallecy, an alumnus of the Northwestern University chapter and Karl T. Finn an alumnus of the Ohio State University chapter were taken into active membership of the Beta, chapter.
WIRE FLASHES
San Francisco, Feb. 7—Scores of lives were endangered today when the liner Wilhelmine carrying one hundred passengers and the freighter Scharold arrived at sea, seven miles north of San Francisco; gate entrance to San Francisco Bay.
Washington, Feb. 7—President
Harding in a brief message asked
Congress to receive the British debt
in exchange for $100 million,
applaired for the subsidy bill.
Washington, Feb. 7. - The five-cent American republic today set example to the world in announcing a federal law limiting the limitation of land armament.
Constantinople, Feb. 7.-Retired and active officers of the Turkish army under Mustapha Konahe been ordered to register immediately. The military commander announced that all evaders will be punished.
New York, Feb. 7. "The Atlantic seabound from New England to the Carolinas was blizzard-swept today. Five inches of snow fell in New York City and Boston early today, while a hurricane was reported off the Hatteras coast.
Local Women Work To Secure Passage Of Dormitory Bill
Kansas Council Concentrates or Senate, K. U. Alumni Supporting
Anne Dudley Blitz, dean of women, and Alberta Corbin, adviser to college women, spent yesterday in Topeka to assist in securing the passage of a bill to carry appropriation of $175,000 for dormitories and equipment for the Kansas Agricultural College at Manhattan.
Companion bills were introduced some time ago in the Senate and in the House. On January 31 the house bill was killed by the Committee on Ways and Means. The members of the Kansas Council are now working in the Senate in the hope that the bill will carry in that body.
University of Kansas alumni are supporting the bill, inasmuch as Manhattan voluntarily relinquished her share of the state appropriation last year in order to allow other state institutions, this University included. He is a member of the Paul Kimbilh, a graduate of this university, introduced the Senate bill.
The Kansas Council, which is sponsoring the bill, report little opposition to the appropriation for dormitories. The main opposition to the bill is that it would not prevent the propagation bills in general. The opinion is prevalent in some quarters that state institutions can get along temporarily without new buildings until the present stringency is past. The governor will support the house will result in support of the bill. The senate bill will come up before the Committee on Ways and
"Close the Book," a one act play written by Susan Glasper, was presented by the Drama League last night at the Little Theater.
Drama League Presents Humorous Glaspel Play
The play was humorous and interesting. Prof, and Mrs. Sherwin F. Kelly very successfully played the parts of Mr. and Mrs. Peyton Root Other principal parts were: Clarke Galloway as Senator Byd, Catherine Redding as Jaansi, Herbert Bagart as, Uncle George Preston Madge Palmer, as M. Byd, Jr. Byd, as Barbara, and Mary Jouson as grandmother. The whole play is a reflection on people who regard ancestry as the most desirable thing in life. Mrs. Sherwin F. Kelly coached the play.
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An All-University Convocation is called for Friday, February 8th, at 10:45 a'clock. Bridgeman will speak. McAlexander will speak.
Morning classes will be shortened to thirty-five minute periods and the schedule will be as follows:
1st hour 8:30 to 9:05
2nd hour 9:05 to 9:50
3rd hour 10:00 to 10:35
Convention 10:45 to 11:35
4th hour 11:45 to 12:20
E. H. Lindley
Flaming Ford Makes Soda Fountain Heroes
"Anybody know something about an automobile—the engine of an automobile," a sister of the Sigma Kappa inquired in a rather excited voice of Dick, the soda dispenser at the school, about 7 o'clock Monday night.
"I've seen one or two," he returned nonchalantly, and asked of the pastry hounds standing nearby, "Any you fillas know about a car.
"What's the matter with it?" ventured one.
"Why, it's on fire," stammered the girl.
With visions of flames blazing high and fair windnads to be rescued the soda fountain boy grabbed up a gale-paned pipe of water and rushed outside. He closed his eyes, fire extinguishers. A little flame was burning near the rear light of a Ford standing in front of the Sigma Kapra house. The insulation of a wire which had been broken.
In the meantime a telephone rang in the fire station and Chief Irwin imparted the knowledge that there was a fire at the Sigma Kappa house. Chess and checker boards were overturned by the firemen in the rush for helmets and rubber coats. Chief Irwin shisht out of the station and toward the bill, leaving a red streak behind and sending a warning ahead with his siren. It followed as the firemen and Ovead and glanced about with his trained eyes for a sign of fire. Bhind him came the chemical truck, the ladder trucks, and the other fire wagon with sirens on full blast. The firemen were leaning forward for a glimpse of sisters at the third story windows waiting to be saved. They brought their cars to a stop.
From every fraternity and sorority house students poured eager for excitement, and rowded together on the corner inquiring "Where's the fire?"
Then the word was passed around
"It was only a Ford and it out now."
Well the fire boys probably nesde
the exercise anyhow.
I. U. Man Summons 1,050
"Cussin'" Smith Floods Court With Witnesses
"Cussin!" Tom Smith, LL B, '99, a former football star, and a widely known lawyer and politician, is attorney for the forty-two strikers in the NFL. He will serve on Industrial Court law. The trials will be held in Hawatha, beginning today.
Mr. Smith has summoned 1,060 witnesses for these cases, including every dentist, banker, preacher, and business concern in Horizon Many witnesses are displeased at having been called to the case. One bank has been called upon to use every employee from the president to the jani-
It will be impossible to accommodate all of the witnesses in the courtroom, so Judge C. W. Ryan has ruled that the trial is proceeding room while the trial is in progress.
Introduce Bill to House For New Kansas Emblen
A bill to designate a state emblem, or flag, was introduced in the house yesterday by Representative Staplon, of Bourbon. The design was made by Mrs. C. F. Miller, of Fort Scott, and calls for a blue field with the seal of Kansas in the center. Around the seal are twenty-one white or silver stars. Three white or silver stars also are in each corner and two in the back. They are to the staff. The flag is edged with a knotted frince of yellow silk.
Two flag designs were proposed in the house two years ago, but the plans were dropped after discussion over various designs. The present account according to Shapiro is different from both of these two years ago.
Laur Fraternity Announces Pledges
Phi Delta Phi, honorary law fraternity, announces the pledging of Ray R. Prever, 125, Girard; Charles K. Schroeder, 125, Scriner, 125, of Olathe; Roy T. Johnson, 125, of St. Francis; Hubert Horning, 125, of Moline; Frank Flock, 125, of Dwight; J. E. Edwards, 125, of Browne; I. Thea, 125, Parsons; George E. Spreadling, 125, of Liberal.
Madge Hamilton of Kansas City, Kansas visited at the Alpha Gamma Delta house last Saturday.
NEAR EAST IS "TINDER BOX" AWAITING SPARK, AS RUSSIANS AND TURKS QUIT CONFERENCE
British Control of Mosul Oil Fields; Their Attitude Toward Straits; and Turkey's Failure to Protect Foreigners in Constantinople Are Danger Points
(United Press)
Nothing remains of Lausanne but the foreboding shadow of new war in the Near East. Turks and Russians have gone home and the eyes of Europe are turned upon the latter in apprehension.
Amateur Leather-Pushers and Mat-Men Will Get Trophy Cups
"What will Russia Do?" was asked in allied capitals as the French still sought to bring together the conference of Lausanne for one more try at peace, and the British unostentatiously laid plans for possible war.
University Boxers And Wrestlers Plan Spring Tournament
An all-University joint boxing and wrestling tournament will be staged about March 15, according to G. B. Patrick, boxing and wrestling coach at the University of Kansas. The tournament will be open to any annoter enrolled in the University, regardless of classification, providing that he has not taken part in one or more matches. This does not exclude the members of the squad who have not taken part, however.
All seven weights will be represented. The respective weights are as follows: feather weight, 115; hamn weight, 125; light weight, 185; midweight, 143; middle weight, 185; light-heavy, 175; heavy weight, all over 175.
The tournament will again be judged on an inter-school basis, as it was last year. The trophy cup which was won last year by the engineers will again be the prize for the winning team, but this will also enable to win this trophy three years in succession in order to gain permanent ownership of it.
No trophy has ever been offered for the boxing tournament. It is probable that individual medals will be given to the winners. The exact nature of the prizes will be announced later.
Preliminaries in both the boxing and wrestling will begin about March 15 and it is hoped that the finals may be fought off by the last week of March. The exact date of the matches will be announced later.
Entries will be closed about March 15, and weights may be made on or before that time at the gymnasium. Members of the varsity wrestling team will assist as officials during the tournament.
"All men expecting to take part in the tournament should start getting in condition imminent, tie for one not only because of the court pressure," announced Coach Patrick.
Managers of the different schools will be announced later. They will probably be appointed by members of the Athletic board.
Veterans' Bureau at K. U.
Now Numbers Ninet
The number of the U. S. Veteran... Bureau students of the University was reduced last week from the past semester's figure of 105 to 90. This decrease is due to a new ruling of the Bureau to the offer of scholarships for this training unless their application was made before the middle of last December.
This Buraun is maintained by the government for the education of disabled World War veterans. Any soldier adjudged 10 per cent disabled may have his books and fees paid for him, but many will be prevented from pursuing his pre-war occupation he is allowed $100 a month if single and $135 if married. Dean Dyer, who has charge of this work here, estimates that within three years there will be but few of them able to stand in front of standing of these students is higher than the general average as only four or five were lost through grades.
The R. E. O. T. C will attend in a body the convention to be held here Friday, brunary 9, at 11:00, for Brigadier-General Ulley G. McAlexander. The battalion will form at 10:50 in front of Powder Shops.
Three danger points, any one of which may prove the cause for a conflict, were left unremoved by the failure of Lausanne. The British naval force was to Turkey warrants them. The British fleet is watching at the entrance to the Strata, which Russia determined shall be closed. Turkey has not made satisfactory provision for foreigners in Canatastinopole. Any one of these territories is under Greek and Turkish about the Martina may set the whole Near East aflae.
Turks Are Restless
The Turks, especially the Ottoman press, were muttering of sharpening bayonets, as Ismet Pasha returned from Lausanne, but dispatches from the Turkish army at a point of disquietude is Moscow. The Society government was silent, but before the Russian delegation returned, its spokesman demanded prompt repons for the Allies to the Straits be closed.
Tentative alignment of powers for possible conflict in the Near East was indicated in dispatches today. Turkey made overtures to Bulgaria, while Greece approached the "Little Enten," Serbia, Romania, and Czechoslovakia, with a suggestion of an alliance in event of war.
Warships Ordered Away
London, Feb. 7.—The Turkish government has issued an ultimatum ordering all Allied warships over 1,000 to leave Smyrnor before midnight tonight, it was learned on the highest authority today.
In response to the ultimatum, Great Britain sent a warship of "considerable over 1,000 tons" to Smyrna, "to see what will happen."
In the meantime, acting under orders from London, the British acting high commissioner at Constantinople conferred with the Turkish representative urgently requesting the Angora government to rescind the ultimatum.
Graduate School Enlarges
Seventy-five Degrees Will be
Conferred This Year
The Graduate School has the largest enrollment in its history during the 1922-23 year, according to Prof. E. B. Stouffer, dean of the school. The enrolment exceeds 500. Last summer the enrollment was 339, one-quarter more than the average, while the average enrollment for the year is about one-twentieth.
"We expect to give about seventy degrees in June," said陈Dion Stoffer for this morning. "This number exceeds that of last year by twenty-five."
The ruling that seniors within ten hours of graduation may enroll for graduate work has brought twenty more students to the graduate school this semester.
"It should be understood, however," said Dean Stouffer, "that only those who have enrolled directly through the college must pay a credit towards a master's degree."
Mr. and Mrs. Geltch Are on Short Concert Tour
Prof. Waldeiner Geltch, of the violin faculty of the School of Fine Arts, and Mrs. Geltch, who is his accompanist in Illinois and Wisconsin.
This evening they will play at Elmurat College, Elmhurst, Ill.; Feb. 10 they will play at Edgewood Academy, Madison, Wis.; and on the 11th day they will play for the music at Shobeygany, Idaho, on the day they will give a recital at Sussex, Wis., after which they will return to Kansas.