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, 1929
Is Recognized by Three Nations For Gallantry in Action in World War; Is an Orator
Gen. Ulysses Grant McAlexander, brigidier general of the United States Army and former student of the University, will speak in conference at the American Philosophical Society. Stopped the Kauzer's March to Paris, "the Marne," in July, 1918."
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 1887. Since then he has been an officer in the army and professor of military science and tactics at Iowa Wesleyan University. He was made a brigadier general in the army March 5, 1921.
Cited for Distinguished Valor
General McAlexander took part in repelling the last great German offensive on the Marse, July 15, 1018, and by that token his command has been blessed. He was wounded July 16 and again July 23, 1918. He was awarded the D. S. M., the D. S. C., and cited "for distinguished valor" by the American government; Officer Legion d'Honneur and Criex ds Gueure with permission to Gourier and Guieri 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, Utah, where he is in command.
Twenty-one members of the House Committee of State Institutions from the state legislature will be present for this convoction. The R. O. T. C. will attend in a body. Music will be held at the Glee Club and the University band.
Convocation will be held at 10:45 to accommodate the committee from the legislature.
Find Wasters Fail Work
Cases Show That Working Students Rate Higher
"I have not found that it is the student who does outside work who flunks his courses, but the one who wastes his time," said Prof. R. L. Grider of the department of geology, to the semester toll of flunkers.
Professor Grider said that after graduation, working students are better prepared for real work, for they are adapted to it. Their purpose is to teach the students who have borrowed to complete their education has to be paid back.
"From my own observation," continued Professor Grider, "I have found that the student who works has, in the majority of cases, better grades than his classmates and teaches 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 hare his success in the outside world."
"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.
Engineers Hold Smoker to Discuss Joint Meeting
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 event is to foster in 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 society.
Several faint bouts will feature the smoker tomorrow night. There will be talks by Dean Walker and other faculty members. Rumors of doughnuts and cider are also abrad. The ticket price is thirty-five cents.
- Sigma Phi Sigma will give its annual Washington party at Ecke's Hall, February 24th.
Builds Five Foot Aerial on Top of Stand Tower
With an aerial 109 feet high, standing on Oread Hill, E. C. Bricken will have one of the highest acrobats in the country. He can jump from any station in the United States.
Mr. Bricken engaged Ray Theis and Charles Black to put an aerial on the standpipe from West-minister Hall. Theis and Black would be able to it be 104 feet high. This, with an aerial five feet over the pipe, will make the total height 100 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 aid of a cable of poles to be heard 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
The second annual three day school for municipal officials and employees was opened this morning by Chancellor E. H. Lindley. After extension of the program, he turned the meeting over to Prof A. H. Jewell, director of the water and sewage laboratory at the University. This school is being conducted by the University in cooperation with the State Board of Health
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 forces and was also 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 Mr. Fassett, H.A. H. A. Rice, C. M. Fassett, B. L. Urch, and W. C. MeNoun.
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 attended by many students and teachers to Professor Jewell, 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.
Savannah, Ga., Feb. 7. —The United States army of occupation home from the Rhine reached American waters shortly before nontown.
The transport St. Milibil with 1200 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 her 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.
Rifle Team Beats Huskers
The R. O. T. C. rife team of the University won in the teographic match with University of Nebraska R. O. T. C._ held Thursday, Friday, and Saturday of last week. The score was 3403 to 3083. Ten more负 on e晋, and four positions; p晋, sitting, kissing, and standing. This is the second match for the local R. O. T. C. They lost the first match to the Kansas Aggie team.
Bremen, February 7 - Fifty American officers and 100 enlisted men, left over out of the army of occupations, will work on the Steamer America today.
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 books are due after next. Bay's book, "Commercial Cases" is in great demand.
Support Of AutosEquals 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 Institution.
"The greatest danger in front of higher education is its mounting cost," said the Chancellor, speaking on the automobile problem. "It is the most powerful weapon we can power to reduce the load on parents" in the education of their children.
Cars Increase Scale of Living
"It costs $20 to $30 a month for a student to maintain an automobile—a sum equal to the total cost of living for each of the women in the cooperative humans. Such expenditures should be the scale of living at the University."
"I am happy to say there is a marked tendency for correcting the abuse of the automobile on the part of students, and we may look for 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 sort."
Turning to the subject of the recent semester examinations, the Chancellor declared some of the press reports and especially rumors as to the events that greatly exacerbated. 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 cause of high standards of scholarship.
To Investigate Courses
"On the other hand," the Chancellor continued, "where there 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 a possibility with the contents of the course, or in the methods of instruction."
Phi Gams Will Move Soon
New Home of Fraternity Nears Completion
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.
The new forty-forty home of the Phi Gamma Delta fraternity is assuming a finished appearance. The exterior has received all but the final rites of cleaning and the grounds are 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 carpenters. The time of competition will depend on the number of carpenters there are on the job.
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 PiUphouse last night. They are: Keennim Constant, Lloyd Hamilton, and Ross Downing.
An extraordinary thing about the structure is that it really has no attic or basement. Those two usually unavoidable sections of a home have been so transformed in this one that its rooms are as if they were any of the many rooms. The basement, which is really the ground floor on one side, provides space for a commode room and dance hall. There are also several living rooms connected to it. The furniture room there is illuminated and a source of real comfort.
Sigma Delta Chi Pledges Two Juniors and a Senio
Clark H. Gallew, 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.
Washington, Feb. 7—President Harding in a brief message asked Congress to receive the British debt paid by Britain, appealed for the subsidy bill.
San Francisco, Feb. 7—Scores of lives were endangered today when the liner Wilhelmine carrying one hundred passengers and the freighter Sherlock arrived at sea, seven miles away. Gate entrance to San Francisco Bay.
WIRE FLASHES
Constantinople, Feb. 7—Retired and active officers of the Turkish army under Mustapha Kemal have been ordered to register immediately. The military commander announced that all evaders will be punished.
Washington, Feb. 7.-The five central American republics today set example to the world in announcing a commitment for limitation of land armament.
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 and Baltimore, and early today, and the hurrice was reported off the华盛顿 coast.
Local Women Work To Secure Passage Of Dormitory Bill
Kansas Council Concentrates or Senate, K. U. Alumni Supporting
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 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, in her speech. She said Paul Kimbilh, a graduate of this University, introduced the Senate bill.
"Close the Book," a one act play written by Susan Glaspell, was presented by the Drama League last night at the Little Theater.
It is hoped that a second canvass of the house will result in support of the bill. The senate bill will come up in a Committee on Ways and Means today.
The Knasas Council, which is sponsoring the bill, report little opposition to the appropriation for doritories. The main opposition to the bill is found in the desire to minimize appropriation bills in general. The opinion is prevalent in some quarters that state institutions can get along temporarily without new buildings until the present strictery is past.
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 Byrd, Catherine Redding as Janisn, Herbert Harttag as, Uncle George Preston, Madge Palmer, as Mgr. Byrd, Charles Hampton as Mrs. Braden and Mrs. 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.
An All-University Convocation is called for Friday, February 9th, at 10:45 o'clock. Brie Bissett will speak. Alexander will speak.
Morning classes will be shortened to thirty-five minute periods and the schedule will be as follows:
1 hour 8:30 to 9:05
2 hour 8:10 to 9:30
Convention 10:45 to 11:45
4 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 manner to the soda dispenser at Brick's nightstand, about 7 o'clock Monday night.
"I've seen one or two," he returned nonchalantly, and asked of the pasty hounds standing nearby. "Any you follows about a car."
"What's the matter with it?" ventured one.
"Why, it's on fire," stammered the girl.
avon visions of flames blazing high and fair madness to be rescued the soda fountain boy grabbed up a gatement pump of water and rushed outside, followed by others with buckets and fire extinguishers. A little fire was burning near the rear light of a Ford standing in front of the Sigma Kappa house. The imitation of a wire which was on fire was extinished at once.
In the morning a telephone rang at the fire station and Chief Reifin imparted the knowledge that there was a fire at the Sigma Kappa house. Chess and checker boards were also set up to rush for helmets and rubber boats.
Chief Reinish nishzue out of the station and toward the hill, leaving a red streak behind and sending a warning ahead with his siren. He grinned on the brakes and thanked him with trained eyes for a sign of fire. Binh him came the chemical truck, the ladder trucks, and the other fire wagone with sirens on full blast. The firemen were leaning forward for a car to retrieve the hood windows waiting to be saved. They brought their cars to a stop.
From every fraternity and security house students pored eager for excitement, and rowed together or answered 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 needed the exercise anyhow.
K. 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 charged with violating the Kansas Court's Order to be held in Hainan, beginning today.
Mr. Smith has summoned 1,059 witnesses for these cases, including every dentist, banker, preacher, and attorney in Horton. Many of these witnesses are displaced at having been called to the case. One bank has been called upon to use every employee from the president to the jani-
all it will be impossible to accommodate all of the witnesses in the courtroom, so the trial will be a mock trial, all witnesses are excluded from the room while the trial is in progress
Introduce Bill to House For New Kansas Embler
A bill to designate a state emblem or flag, was introduced in the house yesterday by Representative Staplen, 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 seven at the top. To the staff. the flag is edged with a knotted fringe 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 design according to Stappleton is event from both of those two years ago.
Law Fraternity Announces Pledges
Delta Phili Delta, honorary law fraternity, announces the pledging of R. Ray R. Preyer, 125, Grard; Charles Hawkins, 125, Scriven, 125, of Oldehay; Roy T. Johnson, 125, of St. Francis; Hubert Horning, 125, of Moline; Frank Frack, 125, of Dwight; J. E. Edwards, 125, of Parson; George L. Sporring, 125, of Liberal.
- Mudge Hamlin of Kansas City, Kan.
has 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.
"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
Amateur Leather-Pushers and Mat-Men Will Get Trophy Cups
An ant-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 amateur 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; bantam weight, 125; light weight, 155; midweight, 145; middle weight, 158; light-heavy, 170; heavy weight, 158; over all 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 price for a school to win a necessary for a school to win this trophy three years in succession in order to gain permanent ownership of it.
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.
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.
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 immedately, for one not to be disappointed," 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. Vetera-. Bureau students of the University was reduced last week from the past semester's figure of 105 to 30. This decrease is due to a new ruling of the Bureau to the effect that no more men will be granted this training because it would have before the middle of last December.
This Bureau 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 only those who prevent him from pursuing his pre-war occupation he is allowed $100 a month if single and $153 if married. Dean Dyer, who has charge of this work here, estimates that within three years there will be but few of these students. The standing of those students is higher than the general average as only four or five were lost through grades.
The R. O. T. C will attend in a body the convention to be held here Friday, brunery 1, at 11:00; for Brigid-General Ulysses G. McAlexander, the battalion will form at 10:50 in front of Fowler Shops.
Three danger points, any one of which may prove the cause for a offence, were left unremoved by the failure of Lausanne. The British fleet was on duty in Turks' want them. The British fleet is watching at the entrance to the Straits, which Russia determined shall be closed. Turkey has not made satisfactory provision for foreigners in Constantinople. Any one of these Greeks, Turks and Turks along the Maritza may set the whole Near East aflame.
Turks Are Restless
The Turks, especially the Ottoman press, were müttering of sharpening bayonets, as Ismet Pasha returned from Lausanne, but dispatches from the Russians had to point of disquietude is Moscow. The Soviet government was silent, but before the Russian delegation returned, its spokesman demanded Justis from the Allies to the Bolshkev demand that the Stratics 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 Entente," Serbia, Romania, and Czecho-Slovakia, 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 Smyrna 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 representant 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 enrolment was 389, one-third more than the average movement, while the average enrollment for the year is about one-twentieth.
"We expect to give about seventy-
ve degrees in June," said Dean Staffer
this morning. "This number ex-
ceed for that of last year by twenty-
five."
The ruling that seniors within ten hours of graduation may enrol for graduate work has brought twenty more students to the graduate school this semester.
"It should be understood, however," said Dean Stouter, "that only those who have enrolled directly through the university are eligible to credit towards a master's degree."
Mr. and Mrs. Geltch Are on Short Concert Tour
Prof. Waldenow et al., of the violin faculty of the School of Fine Arts, and Mrs. Geltch, who is his accompany in concert trip in Illinois and Wisconsin.
This evening they will play at Elmhurst College, Elmhurst, Ill.; Feb. 10 they will play at Edgewood Academy, Madison, Wis.; and on the 11th they will give a recital for the music day. On the 12th day, the day they will give a recital at Sussex, Wis., after which they will return to Kanas.