UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOLUME XV.
NUMBER 136
Mrs. Helen Ross Lantz Gives Opening Address To Theta Sigma Phi
First National Convention Began With Business Session At 9 o'Clock
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS, THURSDAY AFTERNOON, APRIL 25, 1918.
Kansan Gives Luncheor
William Allen White and C. M Harger Are Principal Speakers for Today
Members of the grand council who are here for the convention are Mrs. Lantz, president, and Miss Cassie Lawrence Bryan, grand treasurer, both of Seattle, Wash. Eight visiting chapter delegates were here for the opening meeting, and several others will arrive today and Friday morning.
An address by Mrs. Helen Ross Lantz, grand president, and an address of welcome by Alice Bowlby, president of Epsilon chapter, opened the first session of the first national convention of Theta Sigma Phi in Myers Hall, at 9 o'clock this morning, and Mr. Daniel Jackson, Jackman of the School of Fine Arts, the business of the convention, including various reports, was taken up.
At the luncheon given in honor of the delegates by the Kansan Board in the Kansan room at 12 o'clock, William Allen White and C. M. Harger, principal speakers of the day for the convention, were guests of honor. Black and white color scheme was used to decorate the forks at the luncheon.
The program scheduled for the convention this afternoon includes a talk on "Writing the World's History" by Miss Helen Bennett at 1:45 o'clock, a discussion on "Women in Journalism" by Charles Dillon at 2:45 o'clock, and the all-University convolution in Robins gymnasium at 4 o'clock, at which William Allen White and Miss Helen Bennett will be the speakers.
Charles Dillon Talks on After-War Literature For Theta Sigma Phi
Short Story Driving Novel to Back Shelf Says Editor of Capper Publications
M. Dillon says that the day of the short story has arrived and the novel is taking a back shelf. War has brought into special prominence the short story of the magazines and papers.
"Don't describe me as a fat man, said Charles Dillon in an interview this morning, "I was described about eight years ago as a fat man by the Kansan when here at the same time he was born. In his third day lived down that reputation. want it distinctly understood that am not fat, and never was."
Mr. Dillon is talking to the journalism classes this morning and this afternoon at 2:45 o'clock he talked before the Theta Sigma Phi convention at Myers Hall. Mr. Dillon spoke on "Women in Journalism," considering more particularly the future of literature after the war. He discussed literature from all standpoints including the book, the magazine and the newspaper.
Tickets Now on Sale For Glee Club Gambol
Tickets are on sale for the Glee Club Gambol which will be in Robinson Gymnasium May 3. Shofatil and his orchestra will furnish the music.
Dancing will be from 9 until 1
o'clock. Prof. and Mrs. J. A. Farrell,
and Prof. and Mrs. S. O. Rice will chaperone. Tickets may be obtained from any member of the Glee Club.
Two Engineers To Service
Two Engineers To Service
Two students of the School of Engineering withdrew yesterday to enter the army. One also left to do farm work. V. Nelson, e18, withdrew and went to Wichita to enlist. He would have been called soon in the draft. Herbert E. Rose, e18, also withdrew. He expects to leave soon for Washington, to work in the Signal Department of the Bureau of Standards.
Don't wait—do it now! Buy War-
Savings Stamps!
Crusty's Ghost Makes Hamlet of the Crab
Only one man dares to sleep on the sleeping porch of the University Club and he is known to the club and community by the now famous name of Crusty. Not that he is anything like that, his fireside companions at the club say, but rather that he simply had to be called something and he liked this name and encouraged it. Every night at sharp 11:30 o'clock he gathers his long samite robes about him, enholds in white.—No 12 slippers—and slowly, solemnly stalks to rest.
Crusty has stuck it alone all winter without sympathy but with frequent revenges. His long, gaunt, ghostly figure has shot slumber out of terrified men who lay awake and breathed hard to see him slide by their open doors. The Crab, now almost as deserving of fame as the original Crusty, got the worst scare not many nights ago. "Speak!--for Heaven's sake speak!" the Crab gasped like Hamlet or anybody else who ever saw anything like Crusty ready for the porch.
'Aw shut up and gimme a match!'
growled Crusty.
The War Here and Over There
GERMANS HIT AT AMIENS
GEMANS HIT AT AMIENS
The Germans have gained about a mile and are now nearing Amiens. Hun artillery is preparing the way for an infantry attack in the Robecq and Merville sectors.
An increase in the shipping program planned for the next few years has been decided on by the shipping board.
A Dutch newspaper announces that the Dutch and German ministers have left Berlin and Amsterdam, respectively, on account of the war crisis.
Air observers report that the mole at Zeebrugge was blown in two by the British cruisers which raided that port yesterday.
John D. Ryan, a prominent copper magnate, railroad man and financier has been named by Secretary Baker as head of the government aircraft board. Mr. Ryan takes the place of Howard Coffin.
Dr. Herman Rosemeir, former editor of the Berlin Post, predicts a social revolution in Germany.
Germany's losses in the war are estimated at 4,225,000 men, of whom 2,500,000 are dead. She still has 4, 805,000 men available.
An Oklahoma Congressman has asked the government to pay farmers $300,000,000 profits claimed to have been lost through the regulation of wheat prices.
1918 Graduating Class Is Smaller Than Usual
School of Medicine Alone Keeps Up Numbers in Spite of War Conditions
Applications for degrees have already been filed by nearly all seniors eligible for degrees, but Registrar George O. Foster, usher students who may be eligible to come to his office at once to check over their grades and make application for a degree if the records show one is due.
Germans are now using dye in their gas shells to stain their shell craters and thus warn Germans to keep clear of them as they advance. The gas hangs in craters for hours after the shell has exploded.
The number of graduates from the University of Kansas this year, particularly in the College, the School of Engineering, and the School of Law, will be much smaller than usual, due to the abnormal conditions. The number of medical students to be graduated this year is about the same as that recently enlisted in the enrollment, the class next year probably will show an increase.
The number of degrees applied for this year in the College is 175, while last year about 230 degrees were granted. Twenty-nine applications for degrees have been made from the School of Engineering, ten from the School of Medicine, and twenty-two from the School of Law.
Senior Class Presents Student Play, "50-50," Before Crowded House
Student Life on Mount Oread is Vividly Portrayed; Acting Is Excellent
Local Hits Bring Laughs
Interest Sustained to Final Bon fire and Singing of Crimson and Blue
"Fifty-Fifty" was greeted by the University Wednesday night as a clever comedy typical of college life and lively in its humor and presentation. The audience, which entirely filled the theater, was kept laughing throughout the whole play. All of the actors played their parts with a pleasing manner and won high commendations from their hearers.
The play was a creditible addition to the honors of its author, Harold Lyttle. The plot was clever, and its incidents were laughable commentaries on University affairs. Its local nature was much appreciated, and spice was given the production by jokes on K. U. personages.
Craig Kennedy as Dick Manning gave an excellent interpretation characteristic of the way he has acted in previous dramatic productions. He brought out the comedy well in the part of the student who pawned his clothes to pay a note-of $50 contracted by his attentions to Helen Gray, the pretty college co-ed who later aided materially in turning Dad's irc.
Emma Mae Rummel, playing opposite Kennedy, in the part of Helen Gray gave a pleasing characteristic of the co-eed with whom Dick was in love and who was the cause of his financial difficulties. Miss Rummel sustained her part perfectly throughout.
Lewis Hull as Tom Winters, a student chum of Dick Manning, and Helen Clark as Mary Manning, the high school sister of Dick, made a great team in the parts of kidish lovers. A third team that made a great hit with the audience was Ed White and Florence Harding, the parts taken by Horace Chandler and Marie Buchanan.
Jessie Lea Messick played the part of Dick's kind mother to perfection and his father was well portrayed by Ed*Patton, as an important-acting and somewhat grouchy man. Blake, the mild villain, was well shown as an offensive character by Harry Robinson.
The play had a most effective ending with a rally bonfire and the singing of the "Crimson and the Blue" by men students of the University.
Willis Beltz as the Cockney Tommy, Jenks, serving as a chauffeur to the Mannings and finally roped in by the designing maid, Rosie, kept the audience in a rear of laughter. Rosie was played by Charlotte Kreeck, who proved to be a clever comedienne in overcoming Jenks dislike for women.
The negro farcical part of Riddles was comically brought out by Don Davis with his antics and dialect. Eva Hangen as Mrs. Flannagan, the Irish housekeeper, was always good for a laugh with her pugilistic method of protecting her daughter and taking spite on the students. In addition he played on the stage. Play, Howard Morgan made a very clever Hebrew Pawnbroker in the part of Abe Wolfstein and gained many laughs by his acting.
Much credit for the successful production belongs to Prof. Arthur MacMurray for his work in coaching the cast. The selections by the University Orchestra were much appreciated by the audience.
Punishment is Sought To Fit the Offender
Send the Daily Kansan to some friend "ow-r there."
In a heroic effort to beautify their part of the campus a class in civil engineering procured shovels, pickaxes, hoes, wheelbarrows, and all other available weapons and set to work digging up the hard-worn and down-trodden path across their front yard. After some forty of them, working on the area about four yards square, had succeeded in making the one time path look like a flower bed they posted a paddle with the conspicuous instructions, "Keep off or else—"
According to a verified report from Dean Shaad, who watched the above-mentioned area for half a day following the performance, not a student violated the newly enforced ruling, but each of the three women who enhanced to visit the Engineering Building that day mercilessly cut across. The "civils" are now busy planning some means of enforcing the ordinance when women are in question.
Glee Club Management Announces Personnel For Camp Funston Trip
Club Chaperoned by Mrs. Downing Will Make Trip on May 3,4
May 3-4
WELCOME, THETA SIGMA PHI
since the large expenses of the trip make it impossible for the entire Women's Glee Club to go to Camp Funston May 3 and 4, a list of those who will make the trip has been made. Attendance at rehearsals and voices were considered in making the list. If more money can be obtained, the list may be updated. The list is subject to further change by the committee on eligibility.
The following accompanists and members of the club, chaperoned by Mrs. W. B. Downing, will go to Funston;
Prof. W. B. Downing, director.
Prof. W. B. Dalton, accompanist.
Ednah Hopkins, first violin.
Katherine, Barber, first violin.
Laura Jackman, second violin.
Marie Nusz, second violin.
First soprano: Marie Buchanan,
manager; Jessie Buck, Lorinda Mason,
Helen Naismith, Gladys Nelson, Myra
Summers, Vesta Talbert, Dorothy
Tucker, Helen Weed, Wharton,
Ethel Yorkoff.
The University has the honor today of having for its guests delegates to the first national convention of Theta Sigma Phi. This is a significant honor at a time when the nation is at war and calling for its men to take up the burdens of the trenches. More and more, as the war goes on, America will be called upon to look to its women to fill the places left vacant by men who have gone to war.
Second epopranos: Marguerite Adams, Olive Barry, Dorothy Derge, Hinda Etheredge, Charlotte Carnie, Thelma Etheridge, Charlotte Sallue, Jane Waters, Frank Kay.
First Altos! Joan Gorman, Florence Harkerkard, Thelma Hines, Opal Holmes, Helen Jenks, Minnie Moody, Edna Marrs, Clara Scheuer, Eileen
Have you been tagged today? Members of the Cercle Ferreau are selling tags which read, "I have helped a French orphan."
Second Altoz: Alfrieda Bisecal,
Gertude Ferg, Eva Hangen, Beatrice
Klein, Helen Peffer, Lucille Phiney,
Bernice White, Helen Rutledge
Tag Day Will Enable
Cercle to Adopt Orphan
"It is the French Circle, not the French department, as was previously reported, who are adopting a French orphan," said one of the club members today. "We have been very successful in our tag sale so far and will continue the sale tomorrow if we have any tags left." she said.
All members of the Women's Glee Club will meet at the Masonic Temple tonight at 7 o'clock for a concert
Women's Glee Club
William Allen White Talks About War, Politics, and Cub Reporters
Editor of Emporia Gazette Claims He Knows Less About Political Situation in Kansas Than Any Other Two Men in State
Those who are here as guests today are representatives of an organization of women who are preparing themselves to assume responsibility in one phase of American life. They are preparing to take up the work of what Edmund Burke called the Fourth Estate, and the most important of them all. The University feels it an honor to be the host to the delegates of such an organization, and is proud to extend a hearty welcome to Theta Sigma Phi in this its first national convention.
Senator Blackburn Didn't Smile On Bill As A Cub
"French Canteens Are Run by Women Above Draft Age That is They Are Past the Flirtation Age," Saye Kengue Editors
MUSICAL NOTE!
Plain Tales From The Hijl
"No, the French have no Red Cross as the Americans to handle most of the war activities. In its place, the French have 600 different activities, each with a president, secretary, and treasurer. There is little compensation but the Gallic race enjoys the honor of holding these positions of responsibility and they obtain the same results that the Americans do."
The University orchestra played between acts last night at the senior production.
"No, I don't know a thing about the political situation in Kansas. I know less than any other two men in the state."
ROUGH NAVIGATION
William Allen White, noted writer of the Emporia Gazette, was giving a kansasan reporter his views of political Kansas. He arrived at the University early this morning to be one of the principal speakers at the first national convention of Theta Sigma Phi, honorary journeymen who gave things he did when he arrived at the University to see Jim, the Janitor in Fraser Hall, and ask him for the keys to the Chancellor's office. He left his hand bag there.
A poor Ford pilot writes in a communication calling attention to the poor navigation paths on the campus for autos as well as his Ford. A student has suggested that perhaps the roadways are a bit rough where the sidewalks conflict but if it were not for the sidewalk interference, the campus would be more of a speedway than it now is. Perhaps, also, if the drivers of the many makes of cars would observe the parking and traffic rules which the University Senate passed many months ago this school year, betterroadbed would be supplied the traveling motorists, quoths another stude.
To break the monotony of these spring-like days, the door at the entrance to Spooner Library has consented to squeak for the remainder of this week. It is a well-timed squeak, melodious, and prolonged. The trouble is that it is wearing out its welcome and the few students who remain to study are hoping that it will play no return engagement.
One K. U. soldier writes that the soldiers in the national army camps are disappointed unless they get a letter every day. If each soldier in all of the sixteen national army camps got a letter daily, then it would cost $20,610 worth of postage to send the necessary letters. There were 687,000 men sent to the camps in the first draft. But it is a necessary expense and it is helping to win the war quicker.
First Stude: I feel like 30 cents.
Second one: You mean 32 cents-
two cents for war tax.
Visiting Theta Sigma Phi on Lawrence street car: I want off at 11th and 12th and Tennessee streets.
Conductor: I am sorry but I can't let you off at both streets.
Visiting T. S. P.: Well I want onh in the 1200 block on the southwest corner.
She got off.
"Well," said a particularly bright freshman on reading last night's paper, "I see the Germans are resuming their dyeing industry."
From some experiences about the campus, students would conclude that some K. U. students are not much in advance of the ordinary citizen in the understanding of the English language. One ordinary cit. went to the desk in Spooner Library recently and asked an assistant what magazines they had in the library containing anecdotes. The vocabulary was too extended for him; he looked at the o. c. dazed for a minute and said dubiously, "You don' mean jokes, do you?"
It is calculated that if Congress increases the minimum price of wheat to $3.00 it will add two cents to the cost of a loaf of bread, and increase the nation's bread bill by a billion dollars.
"The British have the Red Cross the same as the American. The ability to organize comes from the British. The American is an organizing brute."
"The canteens run by the Y. M. C. A. in France sell things at cost to the soldiers. They are sold cheaply. Buttons, pins, chewing gum, tooth brushes, and soft drinks are sold. They are run by women above draft age—that is they are past the flirtation age."
When the reporter apologized for the poor effort he had made to get a judge in the law, Mr. White told of his experience with the court on the old Journal-World in Lawrence.
"Er—I—I'm a reporter for the World, I said."
"Senator Blackburn, of Kentucky, came to Lawrence to inspect the Haskell Indian School, and my fraternity brothers thought it would be nice for me to get an interview with him and invite him to the house to dinner. I got a chance to see Senator Blackburn as he was going into one of the University buildings. He was a man of huge build and I was a bit "frightened."
"I won't talk to a reporter."
"But, won't you talk to your fraternity brother?"
"Don't you remember the Phi Delt fraternity?"
"Oh, h-1 yes", he said, and walked on into the building."
Be Constructive, Is Advice Support Movements for Community Says W. A. White
"Support things that need to be done," said William Allen White today in an informal talk before the journalism class in interpretation of the News. "When you see a thing that should be done, back it up even though the rival contemporary paper has started it. And then always be a good loser. Never write destructive criticism in the editorial column. Be constructive in your policies."
In speaking of politics and editorial writing Mr. White said:
"There is just one time every two years to monkey with state politics and that is during the months of September and October just before election. A healthy minority election is enough time to give in backing your candidates."
Mr. White spoke also to the classes in History of American Journalism and Editorial Practice at 11 o'clock recalling experiences of his own in breaking into the newspaper game.
University Band to Give Annual Concert May 21
The last big concert of the year will be held in Fraser chapel at 8:15 PM 21 by the University Band. The program will include a solo by H. L. Butler, and a trombone solo by Jay E. Hargett, "Sheridan's Ride," a descriptive number, march song, "K. U. B. band," dedicated to the K. U. band, two overtures "Phedre" and "Ill Guarany," and other numbers. This is the eleventh annual spring concert.