UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOLUME XV
University May Train Teachers According To Smith-Hughes Law
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS, MONDAY AFTERNOON, APRIL 15, 1918.
Senate Adopts Proposals Asking For Federal Aid to Establish Work
To Teach Various Trades
New Courses in Home Economies, Shop Work, History and Drawing
Teachers of agriculture probably will be trained at the State Agricultural College, but the University of Kansas will undertake to train teachers for the trades and industries. In order to do this it will be necessary to recruit a number of teachers and to change others to meet the requirements of the Smith-Hurges law.
The University Senate has adopted proposals for the training of teachers under the Smith-Hughes law, which under certain regulations gives federal aid to high schools for the purpose of vocational education and to universities and colleges for the purpose of training teachers.
The University Senate promises that the University is ready to meet the requirements of the Smith-Hughes law and that it will give the fullest co-operation with the State Board in training teachers under the conditions as they change from time to time.
Courses will be given embracing a practical knowledge of shop work, general requisites, related subjects, and teaching. Some of the classes are: Home architecture and sanitation, home decoration, sewing, selection and preparation of foods, clothing design, clothing manufacture, dietetics and a number of others to prepare teachers of home economics. There will be courses in the various kinds of shop work, and in connected subjects such as science, mathematics and drawing, history and functions of industrial education, and methods and management of teaching..
Captain Uhls Selects Three Players For 1918 Tennis Team
Matthews, Skaer, and Fratchei On Squad—Freshmen to Have Chance
K. B. Uhls, coach and captain of the Varsity tennis squad, selected his men Saturday afternoon after tryouts on the McCook courts. C. K. Matthews, H. A. Skaer and F. A. Fratcher were chosen. The players were judged according to their serve and stroke, the different strokes including the chop, drive, cut, overhead, backhand, and lobbing.
"The Varsity is fair but not as good as I expected," said Uhls, after practice. Coach Uhls is a Miscontinent and Kansas State title holder. He has played in many games at Kansas City and is now attending the K. U. Medical School at Rosedale. He comes to Lawrence on Saturdays to practice and coach on the University courts. Uhls expects to get a doubles partner from one of the three men on the Varsity. C. K. Matthews, c'18, was center of the basketball five this season and has won three games. He is Kansas City. H. A. Skar, c'19 has won many matches in Butler county and in the central part of the state. F. A. Fratcher, c'18, has played a great deal and is a member of the team of the Rockhill club of Kansas City.
Freshmen will enter out-of-town tournaments for the first time at K. U. The men will be divided into three classes, according to their ability. Excellent players will be placed in the first class, those with ability in the second and the poorer players in the third class. The freshman unit will then send each Uhls. The two best players will be chosen and sent to Kansas City to play Kansas City players in about two weeks.
The first tournament will be with Oklahoma. Later games are scheduled with the Kansas Aggies, Missouri, and the team will be entered in the Missouri Valley meet, probably at Ames.
Three Varsity men and two freshmen also will play a Kansas City team, when the freshmen players go to Kansas City.
Classes for Eight-Week Clubs Started by Y. W.
NUMBER 128
"The Purpose and Work of the Eight-Weeks Club" will be the subject of a talk given by Mrs. A. C Terrill at the regular meeting of the Y. W. C. A in Myers Hall Tuesday afternoon at 3 o'clock. A special effort is made every year by the Association to train college women to organize these clubs for younger girls from small communities during the summer. The workshop will be of interest to women from rural communities and towns.
A second meeting will be led by Mrs. Terrill April 23. The subject for discussion will be "The College Girl—Her Activities at Home and Abroad." The last meeting in the series will be April 30.
Last year Mrs. Terrill conducted a class for leaders of Eight-Clubs, which studied the needs of the small community from a religious, social, and intellectual standpoint.
Allen McQuhae, Tenor Soloist With Symphony Has Had Varied Career
Started as Farmer and Obtained Musical Education in Cabaret
If Allen McQuhue, tenor solos with the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra, which comes to Lawrence, Monday, April 22, were to use his whole name in a professional connection, there wouldn't be room on the noster for anything else.
ALLEN McQUHAE
He started his career as Charles Allen Alphonsus Burns McQuhae; and if you have any doubts about the way to pronounce it, try "McKway." That does the trick.
His fond parents decided he was to be a Jesuit priest. Allen decided otherwise. He "it out," in fact, and made his way to Canada where he worked on a Manitoba farm—something like the one he bought a few years afterward when a flyer in the mail came with funds. In addition to all this that has had thorough experience as a farmer and as an engine wiper.
The examination scheduled for Wednesday, April 17th, has been postponed until Friday, April 19th. The class will meet as usual on Wednesday.
It was by way of a motion picture theater, then musical comedy cabinet performances that he got his musical start in life and has since become one of the most insistently sought after tenors in the United States, of which Mr. McQhaune is a devoted citizen in spite of his foreign origin.
Classes Dismissed to See Company M Go Through
Classes were dismissed at 10 o'clock this morning and again this afternoon in an effort to do honor to Company M, the University's company, which was scheduled to arrive in Lawrence this morning. The University band headed a delegation of students and faculty members to the Union Pacific Railroad Station this morning, commanded up entirely of the crew, which commanded upounced later that Company M would arrive in the afternoon. Capt. F. E. Jones, commanding Company M, arrived in Lawrence this morning.
Notice For Students In Commercial Geography
W. M. Duffus.
Send the Daily Kansan Home.
The scene was in front of a sorority house. The actors were five young men in a motor car. The time was Sunday night. The performance consisted of cheap wit, cruel and coarse attempts at humor and maudlin songs. Nothing badly offensive, but nothing at all commendable and the whole thing pitiful disgusting, in no sense manly and in no sense worthy of a decent University man.
UNFORGIVABLE CRUDITY
You know at the end of the foregoing paragraph what this little recital is about. It happens once or twice a year in almost every college or University. It is a preventable form of idiocy that seemingly had not been wholly eradicated. It happened Sunday night in Lawrence. The five men, apparently University men, were or pretended to be under the influence of liquor. They left an empty quartish bottle in front of the sorority house to indicate their condition more fully. And it and the whole performance indicated nothing, but cheap, crude, cate, disgusting shameful cutting up.
One of these five men was recognized. Two others probably are known. But with one to go on, cannot the Student Council and the other organizations of the men and women of the University learn the identity of the whole five and let them know just how University men and women feel toward such callowness? It can be prevented from happening again and the students can do it. No use to appeal to the Disciplinary Committee. "They have no report on the incident." There's a more powerful organization than the whole faculty, in such instances. It is called the student body.
Sixty-Year Repose of Corner Stone in Old North College Broken
Contents Much Damaged by
Day Well Preserved
Dampness—Newspapers of
The corner stone of old North College, laid with formal Masonic ceremonies October 18, 1859, was opened today noon, shortly after the wreckers had thrown down the northeast corner of the building. The bottom of the tin box was rusted away, and the contents were damaged by moisture. The box and its contents will be presented to the University museum by the contractor, Charles A. Colvin.
The tin box, a foot square and eight inches deep, was placed in a hollow in the brick at the top of the basement wall, and over this a large sandstone slab was placed. This sandstone was cracked so the water had run into the recess.
In the box were a copy of the Bible, and a volume which appeared to be a Presbyterian book containing Confession of Faith, catchism and other church ordinances; a copy of the Herald of Freedom of October 8, 1859, and a copy of the Lawrence Republican of October 13, 1859, both papers printed in Lawrence; a copy of the state constitution, printed in pamphlet form as a supplement to the Republican, and some other papers that were so moulded that they turned away in the air, and were blown away from the box, but was in the bottom of the box, was badly deceased for a fourth of its thickness, and the binding of the other book was almost gone. The newspapers were in a good state of preservation, except that they were worn nearly through on the folds. The paper is particularly white and the print clear.
Captains for each class team, which is to enter the swimming meet, have been elected. Lois McCord will lead the freshmen, Dorothy Dawson is captain of the sophomores, Eleanor Atkinson was elected by the juniors and Margaret Hodder for the seniors, lily in war times, and have only one party dress. You won't seem quite so much like an "expensive luxury" to him perhaps. However, Genevieve, if you have your heart set on looking different, there are two ways: It isn't uncommon in war times to wear afternoon dresses, especially Many women are out for the meet and Coach Hazel Pratt expects more competition than ever.
The captains are expected to get their teams organized at once and begin systematic practice as soon as possible. Many women, who are not interested in any other athletics, are out for swimming as well as most of the strongest supporters and members of the W. A. A.
Leaders of Class Teams For Swimming Elected
The British Ministry of Foods has given out a recipe for making a cheap substitute for butter from potatoes. Fourteen ounces of potatoes and two ounces of butter or margarine are used in the composition.
Frances Flynn and Katherine Glendenning SOP Representatives of W.S.G.A.
Rilla Hammet and Dorothy Dawson Win In Junior Elections
In the election for representative to the council of the Woman's Student Government Association, which was held Friday, Helen Peffer and Carol Martin were elected for senior representatives. Rilla Hammet and Dorothy Dawson for junior and Katherine Glendening and Frances Flynn for sophomore. Installation for the new council members will take place Tuesday night in Mrs. Brown's rooms in Fraser Hall.
The following votes were cast: senior, Carol Matrin; 45, Helen Pefer, 41; junior, Rilla Hammet, 84, Dorothy Dawson, 84, Eloise McNutt, 32, Ruth Bottomly, 30; sophomore Katherine Glendening, 76, France Flyn, 72, Dorothea Engle. 38.
The election of freshman representatives will be held next fall.
Professor Nevin Tells
Of Singing Thousand
"It is the greatest experience of my life,"—that is the characterization of musical leadership of almost half a hundred thousand soldiers given by Arthur Nevin, composer, director, conductor, and formerly professor at the University of Kansas, but now chief of soldier singers at Camp Grant, Rockford, Ill. Professor Nevin told in a brief interview what the big job meant both to him and to the man.
"The natural emotions roused by ties of home and country find expression in the song of the multitude. But men can't get the feeling out by singing alone—it's in singing together." Professor Nevin said, "and the more much more fuller, better together so much more fuller, the common joy and inspiration of the season. Then there's the song that cheers and the song that has a careless laughter in it—there's the right song for every human need. All participate. All get what the music imparts. We are building the morale of an army with the song on its lines."
“It’s bound to be a singing army that goes over,” said Professor Nevin in this morning, “made up of men who will call to get rested when they are tired—sing the song of victory when they face the enemy.”
"I am not trying to better or elevate taste for music," said the army singing chief, who can present the compliments of the commanding officer anywhere,—"no time for that or use it now. Just doing my bit by teaching the best men in this land to sing 'Over There,' 'Long, Long Trail,' 'Eliza,' 'Pack Up Your Troubles,' 'Goodbye Broadway,' 'Joan of Arc,' 'When the Clouds Roll by,'—and even 'Poor Little Butterfly.' And you just ought to hear 'em sing the national songs!'
No amount is too small to LEND TO YOUR COUNTRY. Buy War-Savings Stamps!
Reckless Students Do Serious Night's Work
Send the Daily Kansas to some friend "over there."
Just before midnight Sunday night an automobile load of young men who were all presumably students, some of them positively identified, made a circuit of all the sorority houses they could remember and to each chapter gave a sorenade of such contemptible nature that this morning complaints were entered with disciplinary officers of the University. Women's names in college lists sings about them; ribbany was rang when she was coherent, according to reports made from the different sorority houses.
There is no action taken yet in the case. Investigations are not quite complete, although preliminary complaints are said to contain adequate specifications of grossly indecent conduct to warrant drastic measures.
The only clue as to the men's condition was a quart bottle labelled a whiskey both poor and dangerous, that they left on the steps of one chapter house. The automobile got stuck in a mud bank and in the confused efforts to restore it to service names as well as epithets were called, heard, and reported. The whole spree, so far as it was within the vicinity of the University, lasted until the e arly hours of Monday, despite the car to expedite transport. One hour was put in before one chapter house.
No! Algernon, a cub on a newspaper doesn't always become a bear at the newspaper game.
Plain Tales From The Hill
The inevitable; when the days lengthen, assignments lengthen. The sunshine tempts, lessons repel. Result . . . "Kindly call at office of dean at your earliest convenience."
"Queen Elizabeth got a little unladylike at times. She had even been known to take off her slipper and lark and even spit in one's face at one time. She was familiar with the cad driver's horse talk, too. In fact she might be said to be a rude lady," said Professor Crawford to his class in English History.
It's a sure sign of summer or old age when a senior and a graduate student go together to vote for the freshman representative of W. S. G. A., and insist that their votes are as valuable as anyone's.
"Why," exclaimed a visitor looking at the little marble bench northeast of Green Hall, "Why. I had no idea that anyone was buried here on the campus!"
The reporter was looking for news. "Oh say, didja hear about the big iron fence they were buildin' back of the law building?" asked the freshman. "Didja, huh?" "Why, no," he answered. "What about it?" "Well, they're buildin' it 'cause it's spring an' all the trees are leavin'. Dontcha see their trunks?" Whereupon he registered a fade-out.
In a class in Food Conservation, the instructor was lecturing to the young women on the ill effects due to insufficient fruit and vegetables in the diet. "Why," she said, "I can see from the look on some of your faces that you are suffering right now."
Send the Daily Kansan Bome.
May B. Good was walking along Oread street when she noticed the dummies which the students are using in military drill and called her chum's attention to them. "Mary Sankle, do you see those sheep down there by the tennis courts?" "They are sure sheep," answered Mary, "but they are rather soiled."
Yes, again we notice the "Consistency of inconsistent women." Every other week the women of the University flock to the lectures on Food Conservation. Here they learn of the great American waste and the extravagance of a thoughtless nation. Further, they learn of the great food need of the allies at the present time, and of great responsibility of United States in meeting the food supplies of the allies. Then they all troop down town for that daily bitter-sweet eclair. Consistent — did some one say so —?
Mrs. Nellie Taylor of Plymouth, California, is said to have developed a process for making acorn flour which is a satisfactory substitute for wheat flour. She claims that it is really superior to wheat flour for making cake.
Shipyards Offer Men From College Chance For Patriots' Services
Shipping Board Representative Pleads for Help From Universities
Victory Depends On Ships
Marine Transportation Fundamental Need, Says Dr. J. A.
B. Scherer
"The fundamental need of this country at the present time is ships," said Dr. J. A. B. Scherer, president of Throop College of Technology, and representative of the United States-based board speaking to an audience of University men in Fraser Chapel Saturday on "Ships and Winning the War."
"The war must be won by helping Hurley," Doctor Scherer said. "Last year submarines destroyed six million tons of allied shipping. That loss must be replaced by the Allies, and the United States must furnish its share. We had planned to furnish that much shipping our ship with two million men go from the sea into the army, we will be able to produce only a little more than two million tons.."
"The fate of civilization now rests with America, and we must get our forces to the aid of the Allies as soon as it is humanly possible. We cannot do this until we have ships enough to carry the men across and keep them supplied with provisions." YEARS HARMFUL PEACE.
**IF WE CAN HANDLE PEACE**
"We can hold the line on the western front for another year the submarine will be exterminated, for the Allies are weaving the subs down until they are losing much of their effectiveness. What we have to fear now is the inconclusive peace that will stop the conflict before America can throw its forces into the struggle."
"The men who can build ships and will work 'In the shipyards are just as patriotic as the Sammies in the trenches. This is proved by the fact that Uncle Sam is taking men out of the training camps and sending them to the shipyards."
NEED COLLEGE MEN FOR SHIPS Doctor Scherer spoke of the need for college men in the shipbuilding industry. He urged engineering students in particular to consider it as a permanent occupation, not only now but also after the war, since it is certain many of the plants will continue their operations then. Doctor Scherer believes the impetus given to船 building by the war will restore this country to its old time supremacy in the merchant marine. All the shipyards are calling for college men as permanent employees, according to Doctor Scherer, but there are many plants that will take men for the summer vacation only.
Doctor Scherer advised men who wish employment in the shipyards, either permanently or for the summer only to write Andrew Moore, Moore & Scott Iron Works, Oakland, Cal., or Frank P. McKibbenn, South Bethlehem, Pa., using Doctor Scherer's name as reference. Doctor Scherer left names and addresses of other firms with Dr. F. B. Dains, of the department of chemistry. Students may obtain them of him.
K. U. Has Given $6,200
  So Far To Third Loan
Subscriptions at the University for the third Liberty Loan had reached a total of $6,200 at noon today with a number of subscriptions not yet reported. Prof. U. U. G. Mitchell announced that students desiring to subscribe to the loan may do so at the University business office in Fraser Hall. Blanks for subscriptions may be had at the business office.
Saturday Surveys Now
The class in surveying at the School of Engineering is doing special work on week days and usually Saturdays in place of the usual work required in the summer months. In previous years the class has given the greater part of the summer vacation to surveying in different parts of the state. But war conditions make it necessary that the men help out at home this summer. Consequently the special work will be done on Fridays and Saturdays and during Commencement week.