UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOLUME XV.
NUMBER 129
Jayhawker Beauty Ball Is To Be Feature Party According To Manager
Chorus of Fifty Girls With Cast Will Give Midnight Skit Frolic
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS, TUESDAY AFTERNOON, APRIL 16, 1918.
Beauties to be Announced
There Will be Serpentine, Confetti and Hats for Carnival Stunt Dance
Plans for the Jayhawker Beauty Ball, the last big all-university party of the year, are practically complete, and were announced this morning by Don Davis, manager of the Jayhawker and promoter of the party. The party will be in Rohinson Gymnasium a week from Friday. A reception will take place at the Kansas Girls' Contest, and their official standing announced.
Haley's six-piece orchestra, featuring Bevernee on the violin and Corti on the saxophone, will play the sixteen dances on the program. A student orchestra under the direction of "Chuck" Shofstall will play for the midnight face to be a big feature of the party. A chorus of fifty girls, and a cast almost half as large, will give a musical skit. The performance will be given on the dance floor, without the use of either scenery or properties. Popular and topical songs, aesthetic dancing, and "kown kapers" make up the program for the show. "It's all music and dancing," said Davis. "Not a word will be spoken during the performance."
A three-course supper will be served during the intermission, at long tables which are to be placed on the lower floor of the gym. The decorations will reprise.
Programs will be patriotic in tone. They will contain not only the dance program, but the farce program, including the choruses of all the songs that are to be sung. The audience is expected to join in on these choruses.
The party will be informal, though the women will be expected to wear party dresses. Mrs. Eustace Brown will chanerone.
The biggest "stunt" dance will be an carnival number, for which 2,000 rolls of serpentine, fifty pounds of carnival hats have been purchased.
Tickets are being sold by the following: Lawson May, Henry Casper, Warren Woody, William Lengemann, Webb Wilson, William Brady, Warren Wattles, Lynn Hershey, Clarence Swenson, Rollo Howden, Charles Radcliffe, Edgar Schroer, John Monteith, Dwight Bhardwaj, Bruce Fleming, Charles Parker, Ead Mason, John Porter, Marvin Harms, Roland Hill, Ray Hemphill, Abe Hay, Clarence Gorrill, and Floyd Hockenhull.
Junior-Senior Women Will Give "Rare Bits"
New Kind of Women's Mixer to be Given in Gym Thursday Night
Rare Bits, isn't a kind of confection, but it's something equally interesting for women, that is for juniors and seniors. Rare Bits, is a mixing party, to be held Thursday night in Robinson Gymnasium, at 7:15 o'clock. Its object is to promote better acquaintance between junior girls and senior girls on music, freshments, and an out-and-out good time are promised.
Marion Joseph is chairman of the senior committee and Lucile Hovey is chairman of the junior committee. He stands at the check stand in Fraser Hall.
The Vocational Guidance Committee of the Association of Collegiate Alumnae will co-operate hereafter with the Bureau in Kansas City in charge of Mrs. George Cramer. This committee will assist girls in obtaining positions other than teaching for next year and for this summer.
Special Effort Made to Get Women Positions
Beginning April 17, Miss Winston, chairman of the committee, will be in the office, 211 Fraser, from 3 until 5 o'clock, and will be glad to give advice or assistance to girls who desire aid in securing work other than teaching.
No Initiative Taken To Reach Offenders
The Daily Kansan carried the news of Sunday night's business of five young men, a quart bottle, and an itinerary of abuse, to the disciplinary officers of the University. Today they said that they had first knowledge of it from this source. Sorority memoirs have been told that had been both reticent and in a way afraid to come forward with their facts in formal complaint.
Although Prof. D. L. Patterson, chairman of the Disciplinary Committee, and Mrs. Eustace Brown, of the committee, say they have no complaints filed with them, they do not say that their committee has or intends to take any initiative in the matter.
The War Here and Over There
NEW DRAFT CALL
Another draft call was issued Sunday. Mobilization of 49,843 registrants is ordered for May 1 and 10. The quoa for Kansas is 1210. The training camps are being emptied fast by the sending of troops to Europe, and are ready for the new recruits to the national army.
Eight officers appear on the casualty list of sixty-seven issued
Do all you can with all your heart and then remember how little you are doing in comparison with the sacrifice our boys are making "over here." The Bond Bulletin.
White arm bands will distinguish he men of the Third Officers' Training Camp. There will be no graduates from this or subsequent amps, but the men given training will go back into their organizations to attend commissioned officers to await commissions as their services are needed.
Francisco Villa has issued a manifiesto that he will kill all Americans and other foreigners except Germans and anti-Anti-Germans advancing Villa money and supplies.
The British are still holding firm throughout their line. Attacks were made by the enemy in four places near Ypres, but nothing was gained. Even Berlin claims only a slight gain.
A newspaper correspondent from Mexico says that the United States has never been more intemperately attacked and vilified by the Mexican press in general than at present, and the papers doing so are inspired by German gold—Leslie's.
United States fly students are required to fly nine hours with an instructor before being allowed to fly alone. One of our Allies requires but four hours' duty. There is one accident to every 2400 flying hours in the United States and one to every 1400 for this Ally.
More than 70,000 acres of land in this country have been planted with castor-bean plants to produce oil for aircraft.
Save and conserve ice!
"Our camp was built in three months," a soldier boasted. "That's nothing." the Great Lakes blue brigaded. "In Captain Moffet's station they work so fast that a company that stops to rest on a drill field is often on duty or a drill hall as the carpenters sweep on."—Great Lakes Bulletin.
Elect Class Diamond Leaders The different class representatives to the W. A. A. will elect captains for the freshman and sophomore baseball teams Wednesday at 4 o'clock in Robinson Gymnasium. The junior and senior captains will be elected Thursday at 4 o'clock.
Ice is wasted, particularly in hotels, where the patrons are supplied with more ice than they require, and much of it melts without having served any useful function. Since ammonia is used in the manufacture of ice and also in the manufacture of munitions, this is a serious problem. "A ton of ice saved may mean one pound of ammonia saved," says the Food Administration. "One pound of ammonia saved may mean twenty hand grenades, and twenty hand grenades may win a battle."
Elect Class Diamond Leaders
Read the Daily Kansan.
School of Engineering To Have Service Flag Containing 450 Stars
Plans for Annual Engineers' Day Delayed—Date Not
Yet Fixed
The service flag of the School of Engineering which was ordered today will contain 450 stars and will be twelve by eighteen feet. It will fly from a pole extended from the third story of the engineering building to the front step. The Flag has been ordered and is expected within a week.
Each department of the School of Engineering will put on some kind of a stunt. The program will be held in the assembly room. All classrooms and laboratories will be open to visitors throughout the day.
Plans for the annual Engineers' Day have been delayed on account of the service flag. The exact date has not yet been set, but he some time in the next two weeks.
Charles L. Shughart, who is in charge of the preparations says everybody is welcome to visit the classrooms and laboratories during the
The morning of Engineers' Day will be featured by a parade composed mostly of clowns who will inform the public as to the program of the day.
Whole Year Required To Erect Additions Of New Ad Building
Vast Quantities of Material Will Be Used in Construction of Building
The west wing and central part of the Administration Building, under construction last fall, probably will not be finished before the first of next year, according to John Shen, superintendent of buildings and grounds. It was thought at first that the west wing would be finished in time to hold classes there this fall, and that the connecting portion would be installed. Mr. Shen said this could not be done, as a new heating system would have to be installed, and this would take till the first of the year at least.
Send the Daily Kansan Bome.
About fifty men are being employee in the work at present. It is estimated that 850,000 brick will go into the building, this brick coming from the state penitentiary at Lansing. The foundation alone will require 2,430 cubic yards of sand and 1,670 cubic feet of sand. Four cars of Carthage stone, 20,000 sacks of cement, and 700 tons of steel will also go into the building.
The walls of the new portion will be made of terna cotta, the same material used in the east wing. About thirty carloads will be required.
Miss Carr received a B. A. degree in 1916 and was working for a Master's degree in 1916-17. Last spring she was appointed to fill a vacancy in the department of English at Baker University and taught there until vacation. She spent last summer traveling.
The council of the W. S. G. A. will hold installation for new members tonight in Fraser at 7:45 o'clock in Fraser Hall.
Miss Merritt Carr Dies Of Pneumonia Monday
Miss Merritt Virginia Carr, c'16,
died of pneumonia Monday afternoon at
the University Hospital. She was
22 years old and was the only daughter
of Mrs. M. H. Carr of Leavenworth.
Funeral services will be at 9 o'clock
Thursday morning, at the home
on Elm Street. Internment will be in
Leavenworth, where Miss Carr formerly lived.
Miss Carr came to Lawrence ten days ago to visit Susan McDonald, c18. She apparently was ill on arriving and the hospital the next day. The attack was severe almost from the start and Miss Carr's condition became critical because of lowered vitality from her intense work the last winter in the Junior Red Cross in the Omaha, Neb., High School. Her mother was notified and was with her.
Emma Mae Rummel and Craig Kennedy Carry Leads in College Comedy
Cast for "Fifty-Fifty" Changed Because of War and Ineligibility
The cast of "Fifty-Fifty," the senior play written by Harold Lytle to be presented in the Bowersock Theater, April 24, was announced this morning by Coach Arthur MacMurray. Several changes have been made since the cast was first announced several weeks ago. These were made necessary, Howard Morgan, manager, said this morning, by members leaving school and by ineligibility. Mail orders, the manager said, are being received in his office in Room 8, Green Hall.
The leads will be taken by Emma Mae Rummel and Craig Kennedy. Miss Rummel plays the part of Helen Gray, a sophisticated and self-contained college woman. Kennedy is Dick Manning, a typical college man, comical and yet serious most of the time. Florence Harding, a freshman chum of Helen Gray, with a rather light character.
Lewis Hull takes the part of Tom Winters, another college student with a light comedy role. Ed White, a college man, congenial and interested in all girls, is played by Horace Chandler. Blake, the villain of the play, a conceited and unpopular student, is acted by Harry Robinson.
Mrs. Manning, the doting mother on Dick, placid and trusting, is represented by Jessie Lea Messick. The part of Dick's father, an important and perfunctory business man, is taken by Ed Farris, a lawyer of Mary, Dick's sister, a kiddish and laugable high school girl.
The comedy includes five character parts. The part of Mrs. Biddy Flanagan, an Irish cook comedy character with the brogue of the native isle, is taken by Eva Hangen. Charlottie Kreeck plays the part of Rosie Flanagan, the housekeeper's daughter, a pert and humorous maid. The role of Riddles, the colored house man, a light comedy mistral type of character, is played by Don Davis. Willis Beltz takes the part of Jenks, an English Cockney from the trenches, who is afraid of women at first, but changes his disposition. Abe Wolstein, a Hebrew pawnbroker, who would skin a flea if there was a market for the hide, is played by Howard Morgan.
The scene of "Fifty-Fifty" takes place in a room in the Student Union House, a house equipped with modern devices, almost like a hotel in providing a variety of comforts and conveniences for the large number of men who stay there. The play is in three acts.
K. U. Bond Purchases
Reach Total of $10,050
Two-thirds of Quota Already Reached, Reports Prof. U. G. Mitchell
More than two-thirds of the amount assigned by the Liberty Loan authorities to be raised on the Hill, has now been obtained. Prof. U. G. Mitchell, who is in charge of the work on the campus, said he hoped to see the sum completed by Friday noon.
Arrangements have been made so students may buy the bonds at the Business Office at Fraser Hall. No direct canvass will be made, but a number of students are expected to purchase. Many organizations have least one bond, and others will no doubt subscribe before the final date.
Theta Sigma Phi will hold a meeting Thursday, April 18, at 3 o'clock in the Woman's Rest Rooms in Fraser Hall.
At noon yesterday, $6,200 was the
total amount raised, and this was
brought up to $10,050 today.
Prof. Frank Dains of the department of chemistry, has received word from Clifford H. Wilbur, c19, in the aviation school at Berkeley, Cal. Mr. Wilbur says the work is hard and difficult. There are about 800 there at present, and a number of them are K. U. men.
Wilbur Flying at Berkeley
Last Year's Class In First Aid to Get Credit
Students who took the course in first aid last year without examinations can qualify for Red Cross examinations by entering the present class for five lessons, according to an annual list by Miss Margaret Lynn this morning.
The class is meeting in Westminster Hall Wednesday nights at 7 o'clock under the instruction of Dr. A. W. Only six lessons in the course remain.
Plain Tales From The Hill
"What is it like?" they all asked in unison.
"Oh girls," said a patriotic young woman to a group of her friends this morning. "I just got a letter from her and she sent me my spring outfit."
"here it is," she replied as she fingered a Third Liberty Lounn button.
Question: Why is the diamond the stone for April?
Answer: In the spring a young man's fancy.— And April is one of the months very close to the time for the end of the spool year, and the month after that we thinking most then of how many diamonds they are going to need.
The salvage chest gets many historic valuables and recently a most romantic contribution was found among the contents. It was the picked lock from off the case which contained the "Kansas Beauties."
One University man has a novel scheme to get rid of persons who solicit him for various causes or try to sell him tickets. To every pleas he replies "Get away from me! My baby needs shoes!"
They get awav.
A spring case, all engrassed in itself, came strolling along the campus. It was a "sweet young thing," a girl, and a "dear young thing," a boy. He had her closely held by the arm fearing that she would escape (though she, wouldn't have left for a farm) and leaning toward her he was playfully tickling her nose with the brim of his hat, while she giggled girlishly.
Speaking to an 11 o'clock class in economics, an instructor made this announcement, "I require all my students to attend the concerts of the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra. I flunk every one who does not go, I never speak to him again nor to any other who plays for friends. I have no use for any student who preciate music. There is a bunch of chaps around this institution who cannot grasp anything more complicated than a two-step."
He can make everybody on the Hill mad—the fellow who comes into the history room in Spooner Library, looks at the bulletin board, takes down the list of books posted for reading, proceeds to the shelf, loads up with all he can carry, and then insists to the library and every comer that he is using them all right then and there and all at once.
One of K. U's most dignified professors was walking homeward in the gloaming past the ranks of dummies set up for military drill practice. He glanced about, thought he was alone, and decided to lay aside some of his scholastic dignity. He looked around and down the ranks and struck at every dummy with his cane, booring a German every time. The last time he hit too hard, lost his grip on the cane, and plunged it like a raper into the excelsior bosom of the German. It stuck too and the professor had to stop in his march of battle and extract the weapon, just as
a student from the library sauntered past the scene of his triumph.
College Council Meets
The College council which is made up of the heads and chairmen of the different College departments met yesterday, and elected a committee to assist the dean in making out the budget for the College for the coming year. Prof. D. L. Patterson, acting dean, was made chairmanii and Professors F. E. Kester, B. M. Allen, W. C. Stevens, F. H. Hodder, A. T. Walker, and E. H. Hollands were elected to the committee.
Owls will meet Wednesday night at 8:30 o'clock at the Kappa Sigma house. Important.
Food Conservers Come To University of Kansas For Vital Conference
University and College Teachers of Conservation Assemble From Five States
Dr. Arnold, Simmons, Leads
Missouri, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Nebraska and Kansas Rep- sented Here April 20
The conference of teachers conducting courses in food conservation in universities and colleges, of five states—Missouri, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Nebraska, and Kansas will be held at the University of Kansas April 20, beginning at 10 o'clock in the Chemistry Building lecture hall.
The conference will be conducted by Sarah Louise Arnold, dean of Simmons College, Boston, who is a member of the sectional committee of the Section of the Food Administration. The conference is to be open to the public.
Miss Arnold, who is said to be a speaker of great force and personality, has been making speaking tours all through the country, and is now on her way east from the University of California. She has been speaking to large audiences and has been received everywhere with great enthusiasm.
Miss Arnold will arrive in Lawrence Friday night and will remain until Tuesday. It has been arranged to have her speak at convoction at 4 o'clock Tuesday. Meetings will also be conducted at the Museum where men who intend to go into food conservation work this summer. Private conferences will also be offered.
Men's Student Council Gives Financial Report For First Semester
Fifty Dollars Invested In Liberty Bond—Dances Net $111.00
The financial report of the Men's Student Council for the first semester to the change of secretaries on February 6 was given out today by George O. Foster, auditor of student activities. It shows that the council had taken in up to that time about $220 and had spent about the same amount. Beside this $50 was invested in a Liberty Bond.
Receipts
The report in detail follows:
Expenditures
Balance, 1917 ... $119.34
Election petition fees 40.50
Dances, ... 111.00
Book Exchange ... 45.12
Football Smoker ... 12.25
Refund Deposit ... 10.75 $328.96
Liberty Bond ... $ 50.00
Y. M. C. A. Banquet ... 55.20
Football Train'g Tbl ... 64.75
Book Exch. for books ... 10.17
Cleaning Posters from
Sidewalks ... 8.00
The Kansan, Printing ... 5.75
Journal-World, Ptg. ... 11.25
Dale, Printing ... 21.25
Journalism Press, Ptg. ... 4.35
Lunches for Election
Postage ... 4.05
Football Smoker ... 9.05
Drayage ... 4.05
Taxi Hire ... 3.25
Council Keys (Souvenirs). . 19.00 273.08
Balance cash on hand Feb. 6... $55.88
Audited and found correct.
GEORGE O. FOSTER,
Auditor Student Activities.
Frat Pin Ruled Out
As Proof of Marriage
The wearing of a fraternity pin is not sufficient proof of engagement to marry, a draft board in Kansas City has decided. The claim of a former University of Missouri student, married after the draft law was passed, set forth as evidence the couple was engaged before the passage of the law the fact the girl wore his fraternity pin. The court affidavit from the bride's soiors sisters recited the girl was wearing the pin before passage of the law. The board ruled the fact the man gave the girl his fraternity pin to wear in lieu of announcing the engagement did not constitute a contract to marry.