UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOLUME XV.
NUMBER 133.
National Convention Of Theta Sigma Phi Starts Here Thursday
Helen Bennett, Charles Dillon And Charles Harger Will Speak Before Journalists
Invite Public to Lectures
An Initiation by Local Chapter Will Be One of the Features
Many of the meetings of the national convention of Theta Sigma Phi which is to be held at K. U. the last of the week will be open to the public.
Miss Helen Bennett will give the opening address Thursday afternoon at 1:45 o'clock on "Writing the World's History." At 2:45 m, Charles Dillon, manager of the Capper farm will speak on "Women in Journalism."
Friday morning at 11 o'clock Mr. C. M. Harger will talk on "Women in Magazine Writing." These open meetings will be in Myers Hall. A student convocation under the management of Theta Sigma Phi will be held Thursday afternoon at 4 o'clock in the gymnasium.
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS, MONDAY AFTERNOON, APRIL 22, 1918.
Thursday night a reception-musicale will be given at 1602 Louisiana Street in honor of the Grand Council of Theta Sigma Phi. Friday morning a special number of the Kansan will be issued by Theta Sigma Phi.- Friday night there will be initiation, installation, and a banquet for all active Theta Sigma Phis, honorary members, and alumni at F. A. U. Hall.
The closing section of the convention will adjourn to Kansas City where the Alumni Association will take the delegates through the newspaper offices of the city. After this there will be a tea at the Hotel Muehlebach, where Miss Catherine Baxter, editor of the Independent in Kansas City, and an honorary member of Theta Sigma Phi, will be hostess.
Will Speak at Convocation
Thursday During Theta
Sigma Phi Week
White and Bennett to Talk
During the convention there will be an exhibit in Myers Hall of the published works and pictures of honorary members of Theta Sigma Phi.
California Earthquake Largest Recorded Here
Mr. White will speak on "Red Cross in France," and Miss Bennett on "Women Warriors." Miss Bennett is manager of the Chicago Collegiate Bureau of Occupation. She was formerly on the staff of the Chicago "Intercean." The convocation has been especially arranged for Theta Sigma Phi. All gymnasium classes will be dismissed at that hour.
William Allen White and Helen Bennett will speak at the University convocation Thursday afternoon at 4 o'clock in Robinson Gymnasium. The convocation will be under the auspices of Theta Sigma Phi sorority. Mr. Brenett and Miss Bennett are the incipal speakers of the national convention.
Quake However Wasn't Nearly As Destructive As Previous One
The earthquake which occurred in Southern California yesterday was recorded on the seismograph in Blake Hall. The record made here was one of the largest ever made although the quake was not nearly as destructive as some others. Aside from a serious shaking of the town of Hemet, California, there was little real damage done.
The primary wave was recorded at
afternoon. The other
readings were:
Secondary wave (doubtful), 5:39:41;
secondary wave, 5:40:02; main wave,
5:41:32; main wave (doubtful), 5:41:36.
The range of motion of the needle at 5:43 o'clock was three inches. Prof. F. E. Kester estimated the distance at 12,500 miles East or West, and actual measurement showed that the estimate was very close. The quake was slightly south but this was not indicated by the seismograph.
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Blake Hall Clock Is Not Treated Kindly
The big clock on Blake Hall is not unpatriotic although it does refuse to keep time with the daylight savings plan. It refuses to keep time with any plan, in fact. There is practically nothing wrong with it, it is said, except that pigeons and other birds roost on its hands. Any self-respecting clock would quit on such provocation as this.
If the University could afford a glass front to keep the birds away it might be possible to keep the clock running. However, it would take weeks of service to overcome its very bad reputation so that people would believe it.
The War Here and Over There
THE GERMAN ATTACK A FAILURE
The German forces, which succeeded in penetrating the American line for a mile and a quarter near Toul Saturday, were driven back yesterday morning and the American lines restored. The artillery fire of the enemy in the attack was declared by the French ambulance men to be heavier than at any time during the famous battle of Verdun. Our men, although greatly outnumbered, showed most daring bravery.
A call has been issued by Major General George Barnett of the United States Marine Corps for 40,000 recruits for immediate duty in France. An enlistment of 8,000 is desired during May and recruiting stations are to be opened in every state. The men are to be trained at Paris Island, S.C., and will be given an important section on the front.
The Red Cross has been asked by the government to conduct a training camp for nurses at Vassar College to prepare women to fill the gaps in the nursing profession left by the drafting of American nurses for service at home and abroad. The "College Women's Plattsburgh" will open in June. Only college women of sound health who have graduated during the last ten years who are between the ages of 21 and 31 years will be accepted.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics at Washington announces that women workers have replaced 1,413,000 men in the United States since 1914.
A New York merchant who died recently willed $100,000 to institutions controlled by the French government of blind and crippled French soldiers.
Mme. Nelle Melba, the opera singer who turned her Paris home into a war hospital in memory of relatives who had died in the war, has been made a Dame Commander of the British Empire.
Over 200,000 applications for insurance by officers and enlisted men of the naval service had been filed by March 31. The average amount on each policy was $7,300.
George Creel says we have got “to take the purple robes off the government and put it into overalls to do a day's work” if we are to win the war.
Twenty thousand New York State high school boys have been enrolled for farming during the coming summer.
Band to Close Season With Annual Concert
The University band will give its Eleventh Annual Concert Wednesday night, May 1, in Fraser Chapel. This will be the last big concert of the year and Leader J. C. McCanles says that an especially fine program is being prepared.
K. U. Classes Serve Meals
The class in home economic uses of foods, begin serving meals today, putting into practice what they have learned in the course. By the end of the next three weeks each member will have served three meals to tables of five. Each one will plan, prepare, and serve her own meals and do her own marketing. The cost of the first day meals for one person will be limited to 30 cents, the second to 40 and the last to 50 cents.
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Laws To Remain Firm In Decision to Appeal To Legal Proceedings
They Feel That Matter of Exemptions Has Not Been Properly Handled
"The laws who are protecting against the Senate's action in trying to force attendance at physical exercise are not against such exercise. We question the right of that body to institute it, however, and to deny credits for unexcused non-attendance, and we end and out if we are right in this idea."
"Some members of the group have just cause for exemption, but are not exempted," the student said. We feel that we are not unpatriotic in protesting; for it would be better to take exercise in working at some industry where labor is needed more than in agriculture, and that the Hill. "Llegal action will be taken to decide our point if the Senate does not take action soon."
This statement was made this morning by a student in the group of laws that, aided by two Lawrence lawyers, has entered the protest with Chancellor Strong, asking that it be taken up with the Senate.
Dr. William L. Burdick, vice-chancellor of the University, said this morning that as far as he knew no action is being contemplated by the Senate on this matter. The next regular meeting of that body is May 2.
Will Train Nurses In Vassar Summer Session
Practical Courses to Be Offered To College Graduates for War Service
Practical courses in nursing will be offered at Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, N. Y., from June 24 to September 13. The course is being offered because our country is facing a serious shortage of trained nurses, a shortage that will be more acute before the war is over.
The short course of study will be followed at once by a period of hospital training. From the day they enter the hospitals they will be engaged in active war service and in civilian life to greater responsibility and usefulness.
The faculty of the camp includes representative men and women in the sciences and in the medical and nursing professions. The equipment and facilities for instruction are of the highest standards. The course includes anatomy, physiology, hygiene, bacteriology, applied chemistry, nutrition and dietetics, elementary nursing and bandaging, hospital economics and the social and historical aspects of nursing.
Graduates of approved colleges of high standing who are members of the class of 1918 or belonging to classes of the last ten years including 1909, are eligible for this course.
Sixty Delegates Attend Food Lectures Saturday
Miss Sarah Arnold of Simmons College Spoke on Conservation
Miss Arnold addressed the women of the University in a general convoitation, Saturday afternoon. Miss Arnold has been conducting regional conferences similar to the one held last month as she crafted Sunday night for Washington, D.C. to make a report to the Food Administration.
Sixty delegates from Nebraska, Arkansas, Missouri, Oklahoma and Kansas, met at the University Saturday in the first College Food Conference, conducted by Miss Sarah Louise Learnard of Simmons College, Boston, Mass.
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Miss Ruth Dyche, who was graduated from the University in 1916 was a delegate from the University of Arkansas, where she is an instructor. Among the other delegates were Miss Louise Stanley, head of the home economics department at Missouri, Mrs. Mary Pierce Van Zile, of Manhattan, state chairman of food conservation work in Kansas colleges and Misy Bye, head of the department of home economics at Emporia Normal School.
University Orchestra And Special Singing Added To "Fifty-Fifty"
Play Portrays Scenes From Student Life and College Smith
A special addition to "Fifty-Fifty," the 3-act play to be given by a cast from the senior class Wednesday night at the Bowersock Theater, will be musical attractions. The University Orchestra under the direction of Prof. F. E. Kendrie will play for a half hour each Tuesday and Wednesday between two acts. Besides this, members of the cast hint about some special singing.
The atmosphere of the comedy is one of patriotism and of football. The theme of the war runs through it, although it is not a war drama. College spirit, with the excitement and rooting which accompany a football game, permeates. Returns from the Nebraska game are being received in the same building as the scene of "Fifty-Fifty," and the shouts of students as they hear encouraging reports break into the scene of action. When the play ended, as in the play, was injured in an automobile accident the last of the week, but this will not prevent his taking part, the government announced this morning.
Jayhawker Beauty Ball Only Four Days Away To Be Party Of Week
Equipment and Decoration Have Arrived—Programs Are Coming
With the date of the "Jayhawkair Ball" only four days away, plans for the big party, which is to be planted in Robinson Gymnasium, Friday night this week, are moving forward rapidly. The confetti, serpentine, and carnival hats to be used in the carnival dance have arrived; the programs are being printed; and the musical frolic which is to be given at midnight by a cast and chorus of sixty students is being rehearsed daily.
"The party will be the most elaborate affair of its kind ever given on Mount Oread," said Don Davis, manager, this morning. "In the past, the 'Vanity Fair' dances at which the names of the winners of the Beauty Contest were announced have been fairly simple affairs, much on the order of a Varsity party. Because the junior prom and sophomore hop were both given before the holidays this year, and because there was no big All-University party scheduled for the last few weeks of the school year, we decided to make an event of the old Vanity Fair'舞
"The Beauty Ball" was hit upon, and it will be fully as elaborate as a junior prom or a sophomore hop. It will be informal, of course; but the music, the decorations, the programs, the midnight frolic, and the refreshments will be equal to those of any party this year."
Will Hear Orchestra Play Husband's Music
Mrs. Edward MacDowell Makes Special Trip to Lawrence
Mrs. Edward MacDowell, wife of the American composer, is in Lawrence to attend the concerts of the Minneapolis Symphony orchestra today. Mrs. MacDowell was here about two months ago in a reedal workshop where she worked and is interested in the MacDowell numbers on the programs.
Carl Busch, director of the Kansas City Symphony Orchestra is another visitor for the concerts. Mr Busch orchestrated Preyer's "Concertstucke" and wants to hear Preyer present this work.
The Minnesota Orchestra, traveling in its own special cars, arrived in Lawrence this morning, and will leave immediately after the concert tonight for Hutchinson. The concert tonight will begin promptly at 8 o'clock.
Frank Sackett Schoonover, representing the Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company lectured to the junior and middle law classes on the use of law books, at 10 o'clock this morning.
Sociology Students Visit State Hospital at Topeka
Prof. W. B. Bodenhafer and his class in Remedial and Corrective Agencies went to Topeka Saturday for the State Hospital for the Insane.
The class had intended to visit the State Reformatory for Boys, but were prevented from doing so on account of smallpox which has broken out in the institution. Instead of this the class visited the county and city jails.
Those making the trip with Professor Bodenhafer were: Julian Senhausen, Emma May Rummel, Edith Johnson, Marion Griffith, Noll Hohn, Hazel Erzell, Lucile Hovey, Jessie Hewitt, Mary Johnsen, Barbara Mary Brownlee, and Julia Kennedy. Will Hoffman, Henry Swanson, and Roy Burt.
About a month ago the class went o Leavenworth to visit the state and ederal prisons.
Plain Tales From The Hi
AL IKE WRITES
Podunk, Kans., April 20.
Dead, Editu:
I here yure gin' to have a big week this week at k. S. U. Am. Iite or am i knot? Dn't yur bawl eem play Ames, Mon., Tues. and he next day? Missure Valley confluence opfer fering yur teem? Wishuck, cause u uoghta beet Ames if the tiger Tigers did! Then their's that Minniep丘 orchestra playing as a counter attraction both evenin' and afternoon. Start's the weak big, not it edit.
An I here a Century man are comin' from Nu Yawk to benefit the students and sum jurisnalists at your university. That's Toosday, they tell me. What's that yurting put on Wed. Senior Priz play, ain't it. Must be runnie in competitionshus on Friday. One does rite me it's there furst annual--fur both Thursday an Fryd day two.
Also, I here yur Kansan Bored, his goin' to give a feed for them journalism wimmin. An say, don't Rice and Haddock start back two thee Pen Relays games Toosday. OI Haddock—they put hym in the pentahenton.
Some fools due tell me that this hearer fellene Donne Davis is tryin' to giv a Beauty Ball with somethin' to do abouta contest in it on Frydain, in spite of thee Bowersock show. Gosh, it's a gaye weak, aint't it editur? Aint't their somethin' donn' sat.?
Yours,
Al Ike.
The University street car is not an interurban line but this is no reason why it does not have stations with names for them. The station at Thirteenth and Mississippi street is called pumpkin Center and the one back of Green Hall is named Toadstool Station.
A professor said this:
New York Journal gets out some papers;
9 o'clock in the morning; German Fleet nuck off Heligoland. 10 o'clock; Crown Prince captured by British.
11 o'clock: Kaiser Wilhelm is taken seriously ill with pneumonia.
12 o'clock: Raise ships from wet sea.
1 o'clock: Crown Prince arrives in Berlin—is greeted by thin pupilage. 2 o'clock: Kaiser is much better and can argue that he will eat his usual fast supper.
3 o'clock: Baseball line-up.
5 o'clock: Final baseball extra.
Lieut. "Potsy" Clark, of Camp Funston, was in Lawrence Saturday and Sunday visiting old K.U. friends. He is to go to France soon. Potsy was assistant football, basketball, track, and baseball coach at the University last season.
Baptists Going To Sing-Sing
Baptists students and their friends will have an outdoor meeting, Friday afternoon at 5:00 o'clock. The crowd will meet at the Baptist church for a trip up the river to Sing-Sing Island
Subscriptions to the Third Liberty Loan on the Hill have reached a total of $26,800. This is not a complete report.
The Curious One—"Does your four-
tain ten always leak like that?"
The Justly Indignant One—"Oh no only when it has ink in it."—Purple Cow.
Food Will Win The War And We All Must Help Says Miss Sarah Arnold
Speaker Declares Food Is National Property, Not An Individual Matter
Templin Organizing Work
Five States Were Represented In First College Food Conference Here
"Food is, to feed us and not to please us," Miss Sarah Louise Arnold said in a talk before delegates of the first college food conference of five states here Saturday morning. "Conservation is a measure in which we must all enlist. It is a life and death matter."
"Dean Olin Templin as chairman of the collegiate committee has tied together 600 colleges and normal schools in a united effort to co-operate with the food administration. Our part of the work is to carry the message to those who have not the opportunity to attend these regional conferences which are being held in every section of the United States."
"The courage of our men over there will never fail, but what if they should not have the physical strength to repulse the Germans? The great task before us now is to conserve the wheat supply until the next harvest. The present crop of what can not be made into bread until the last of September. We have 180 days that are perilous days to the people here and to those across the water.
"Before the war food was an individual thing, but when Uncle Sam said, 'Food Will Win the War,' it became national property. We must send wheat and sugar. Our boys must have sugar because it gives quiet energy, and man who is lifting weight as much as he works as the worker in a logging camp because of the constant strain he is under.
"We are all sitting at a common table that reaches across the sea, but some of us haven't learned to behave yet. The Germans are almost to sleep. They also must be reinforced by food and men at once, and they tell us, men first."
“As we sit down three times a day and face food, let us make our prayers, Give them this day, through us their daily bread.”
Forty Classic Teachers Attend Conference Here
More Than Hundred Delegates and Visitors at Luncheon In Gymnasium
One hundred fourteen persons were present at the luncheon given in Robinson Gymnasium Saturday noon by the Classical Association of Kansas and Western Missouri, which held its twelfth annual meeting here Friday and Saturday. Forty-two members of the association were present also a number of the women of the Food Conservation Convention, including Sarah Louise Arnold, of Boston, Mass.
The meetings of the association which were held Friday and Saturday were successful. The first session was Friday night in Fraser Hall when Prof. Goldwin Goldsmith of the department of architectural engineering attended a lecture, following the address of welcome by Chancellor Frank Strong.
The second meeting was held Saturday morning. President F. C. Shaw, of Westport High School, Kansas City, Mo., opened with an address and this was followed by several papers and discussions.
At the last meeting Saturday afternoon, Prof. Charles G. Dunlap of the department of English, and Prof. E. W. Murray, of the department of Latin, both of the University of Kansas, lectured.
McCanless Announces Rehearsal The University band will begin rehearsal prompt at 7 o'clock Wednesday night. All band men having tickets for the Senior Play will be permitted to leave at 8 o'clock.
Prof. G. H. Derry will talk before French Circle Tuesday about Belgium. The meeting will be in Room 306, Fraser Hall at 3 o'clock.