UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOLUME XV.
Eleven Seniors Chosen In Spring Election for Phi Beta Kappa Members
NUMBER 112.
Students Selected Are Not "Grinds," But Are In Campus Activities
Two Army Men Are in List
Honor Roll Divided To Take In Five Women And Six
Men
At the spring election of Phi Beta Kappa honorary scholarship fraternity held yesterday the following seniors were elected to membership:
Donald D. Davis.
Abram C. Eitzen.
James Wilbur Hadley.
Joseph P. Harris.
Margaret Hodder.
Marion Joseph.
Ethel Rush Randall.
Annie Shafer.
Benjamin Bell.
Myra Bell Vorbesch.
Kayl J. Wollsmith.
Students included in this list have been active in various University organizations, and have been able to assist i different phases of campus activity while maintaining a high degree c scholarship.
Doe Davis is a member of Phi Gamma Delta Sigma Delta Chi, honorary journalistic fraternity, Phi Alpha Tau, honorary dramatical fraternity, and the Quill Club. He was manager of the Soph Hop in 1916, editor of the Sour Owl, editor of the Jayawaker, junior section of the Jayhawk last year, and business manager of the Jayhawker this year.
Abram Citizen is a member of Phi Chi, medical fraternity.
Joe Harris, who is now in the service, is a member of Delta Sigma Rho debating fraternity. He was on his way to debate against Oklahoma last year.
Wilbur Hadley belongs to Phi Delta Kappa, professional educational fraternity.
Margaret J. Hodder has been active in athletics, having played on the aivoritons senior basketball team four years. She is a member of the Quill Club, the Quillfair's, and the Quill Club, and is associate editor of this year's Jayhawker.
Marian Joseph is a member of Alumnaia and Pi Lambda Theta, honorary educational sorority. She has been on the board of the W. S. G. A. two years, and is secretary of that organization this year.
Annie Shafer has majored in the department of Latin.
Ethel Rush Randall is on the W. Y. C. A. cabinet, and is a member of BlackFriars. She is a Gamma Phi Beta.
Harold Shelley is a member of Phi Kappa Psi, Phi Chi, and Sigma Xi. He has played class football.
Karl J. Wilhelmsen has majored in Greek and belongs to Akoku. He took work in the departments of Greek and Latin with the intention of applying for a Rhodes scholarship, but is now enlisted in the coast artillery.
Landscape Gardening
Described To Students
Pictures Show Value of Trees and Shrubs in Beautify-
Landscape gardening was the subject of the lecture given by Prof. W. C. Stevens of the department of botany, before journalism students Wednesday night. The lecture was illustrated with lantern slides, demonstrating how a little craft of the landscape gardener can eradicate blemishes from the cities, and beautify the country.
ing Homes
Cities in the East need the services of landscape gardeners more than do the cities in the west. "Kansas needs trees to redeem the landscape more than anything else," said Professor Stevens.
Landscape gardening was the third subject of the series of lectures to be given before journalism students. These lectures are arranged by Prof. Rice to give his students practical knowledge of newspaper problems.
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UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS, TUESDAY AFTERNOON, MARCH 19, 1918.
Sale of Easter Cards
Helps French Orphans
Easter cards sold for the benefit of French orphan children is the latest thing in the way of charity giving. 500 of these cards have been sold in the last week at the University.
These cards will be put on sale in Fraser Hall on Thursday morning by the local committee of the fatherless children of France. The cards are furnished free of charge to the committee and the entire proceeds will be used for the support of French children whose fathers have been killed in battle. The card is printed from a four color plat and is of quaint and attractive design. It represents three little children in French peasant costume standing before an old board fence against which Easterillies are growing. The price of the card is ten cents.
The War Here and Over There
WAR THOUGHT FOR TODAY
WAR THOUGHT FOR TODAY
A London cable says 38,000 petitions for divorce have been filed in Petrograd. Can't any two persons in Russia agree on anything?—Knoxville Sentinel.
The newest device in the German aviation service is underground hangars.
The Belgian army has taken over an important sector of the west front formerly held by the French.
Governor Whitman of New York has asked for power to draft members of the unorganized state militia for farm service.
Paper trousers are now being worn by the men of Germany, and shoe aces made of paper yarn are sold at 5 cents a pair.
The war tax of The United States Steel Corporation this year will be nearly a quarter of a billion dollars.
Canada's Governor General has barred wine from his dining table, and ins sealed the wine cellars of his residence for the period of the war.
The War Department officials have unclosed that Germany's long-expected spring drive will not be carried out. The euromenons will remain on the defensive.
A United States court-martial has entrenched a private in the army to even years' imprisonment for mainland hand right to evade military service.
The Treasury Department now receives $3,000,000 daily from the sale of Thrift Stamps. This is about one tenth of what the United States spends each day on the war.
Prince Lichnowsky, former German Ambassador to London, has written a memorandum criticizing the blundering foreign policy of Germany, saying that this was one of the main causes of the war.
Liquor confiscated by the municipal authorities in the state of Washington will not be destroyed. The governor has offered it to the War Department for emergency use.
Further details of the German peace treaty with Russia show that Russin will have to pay an indemnity of $4,655,000,000. Premier Lenine kept this secret until the Council of Soviets had ratified the treaty.
The National Security League has offered a prize of $1,000 for the best suggestion as to the most effective method of getting America's war aims before the German people.
Women's Glee Club will hold a regular practice night at 7. o'clock in Room 311, Fraser Hall. Members of the club who ordered pictures may have them tonight.-Marie Buchanan Manager.
Holland has agreed to the conditions offered by the Allies with regard to the use of Dutch vessels. About 930,000 tons of shipping will be taken over today.
The Home Economics Club, as the guest of Prof. W. A. Griffith, saw a part of the Thayer Memorial Art Collection Friday.
Delaware has adopted the federal prohibition amendment.
The Men's Student Council will meet Wednesday night at 7 o'clock, Room 110, Fraser Hall.
Prof. Sibley to Attend Conference to Lessen Industrial Accidents
K. U. At Safety Meeting
Head of Mechanical Engineer
F. H. Sibley, professor of mechanical engineering is to represent the University of Kansas at the National Safety Conference which is to meet in Chicago Wednesday to further investigate incidents of industrial and public accidents.
The activities of the council have been concerned with industrial safety but it is now entering the field of public safety. The safety movement has become a part of the conservation movement.
A conference was held in New York March 2, at which a committee of five was appointed to co-operate with universities in teaching how to use safety devices. Albert Whitney, chairman f the National Workmen's Compensation Bureau, said in a letter to Professor Sibley the number of men killed and seriously wounded through industrial accidents each year was about the same as the number killed in three months on the battle-front. This is used to illustrate the pressing need for an awakening to the situation. Professor Sibley said he began this work in Fowler Shops three years ago, but failure to obtain sufficient funds hampered the work.
The conference in Chicago will have for its object the same thing as the one held in New York. A similar committee will be appointed to cooperate with the eastern committees, and an effort will be made to initiate the movement in the engineering all universities and technical schools.
Chancellor To Appoint Committee of Lawyers
Men of Draft to Have Expert Advice About Business Affairs
Chancellor Frank Strong, as chairman of the committee on Public Relations of the Kansas State Council of Defense, has been asked to appoint a committee of legal advisors to aid men of draft age in arranging their personal business affairs upon their entrance into the army.
This work is a part of the program outlined by the National Council of Defence for each state. There is to be a central Legal Committee in each locality, to work and local committees will be appointed to aid in each locality.
Because there are so many men of draft age engaged in large commercial enterprises which must be managed during the absence of the men in military service, the government wishes to have competent law-affairs community to aid them in arranging their employment protected by law from persons who might take advantage of their absence to secure personal gain.
The work is sometimes thought to intrude on the work of the Home Service Sections of the Red Cross but the work of that service deals with the men and aid given to the families of men who they go into active military service.
Charcellor Strong has made a list of prominent lawyers from all parts of the state and will make his selections of committeemen from this list some time soon. He is waiting for additional information from the Government at present before appointing the committee.
The meeting of the committee on rooming houses for women has been postponed to Monday night, March 25 at 7:30; and will be held at the home of the chairman, Mrs. Eustace Brown, 1140 Mississippi. All sororities who have not handed in a copy of the house rules to Mrs. Brown are asked to do
Collecting Memorial Fees
All contributions for the senior memorial fund are expected by next Thursday, according to Walter Raymond, chairman of the senior memorial committee. Each senior is to give a book at auction before buck a clock that will be placed temporarily in Fraser Chapel, and will later be moved to the chapel of the new Administration Building.
rules to Mrs. Brown are asked to do so immediately.
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Basketball Entry List Reaches Thirty-Eight Names Still Pouring In
Teams For Arkansas Valley League Doped to Show Up
Well
The entry list in the state high school basketball tournament was increased to thirty-eight teams today, twenty teams having entered since yesterday morning. Manager Hamilton has been receiving entries in every mail and he said this morning that the turnout will probably be as large as that of last year.
The entries received since yesterday are: Boys teams - Toppea, Wichita, Kansas City, Argentine, Baldwin, Chanute, Iola, Buhson, McPherson.
Williamsburg, Viola and Powhatan
Girl's teams: Argentine, Baldwin
Burlington, Chanute, Gardner, Herington, Rosedale and Turner.
The list includes six teams which have won congressional district championships and this means that the tournament here will be very close.
Almost every team in the Arkansas Valley league, one of the classiest high school leagues in the state, will be entered in the tournament and basketball followers will follow closely the competition between Newton, Wichita, Arkansas City and Winfield, Arkansas City. These teams met in the semi-finals last year and are sure to be close to the top again this year.
The drawing for the teams will take place this afternoon and all teams which enter later will probably have to rest during the first round of play or take chances on being able to draw an opponent.
Manager Hamilton will send to each team entered a complete schedule of the games tonight.
"We will have about three hundred eighty high school boys and girls to entertain during the tournament," said W. O. Hamilton, "as thirty-eight teams have been entered and about ten persons in each team. Some of the teams will arrive Thursday night and we must be ready to entertain them at that time. All of the fraternities, clubs and organizations on the Hill which can take in a few of these persons should let the athletic department know who and how many they can accommodate."
"If any fraternity, club or students have arranged to accommodate any team or members of teams they should inform me so that we will not make arrangements for the same persons and cause unnecessary confusion.
"The University students should try to entertain these people. It will be a big task to take care of all of these high school students, but we can do only if the hill people will cooperate with the athletic department."
Botanists To Be Supplied With Specimens—Lilacs To Camouflage Incinerator
Draw Vegetable Veil
Over "Hill" Background
The south slope of the Hill, sometimes known as the University's backyard is to be benefited by a systematically-carried-out scheme of landscape gardening, according to plans now being worked out by Herbert S. Hare of Kansas City, Mo., a landscape architect. Mr. Hare will submit his plan to University authorities this week. It is proposed to plant a botanical garden for the use of students' botany add at the same time so arrange this garden that it will perform all the duties of landscaping the south slope, and making it more beautiful.
The plan is to have the plantation as useful as possible in a scientific way, yet to use it to the utmost in hiding the incinerator with clumps of fragrant and beautiful lilacs and other shrubs and trees. The necessary and unsightly heaps of building materials, the coal bunkers and the old frame buildings near the heating plant also are to draw a vegetable veil across their facades, when the lanscaping is perfected.
Mr. Hare, who with Prof. W. C. Stevens, head of the department of botany, is planning the landscaping of the campus as a regular lecturer at the University.
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Shipment of Books Sent To Kentucky Community
The University has just sent a shipment of books to an isolated community in Knott County, Ky., the state which has sent to the army 30,000 men who could neither read nor write their own names.
The illiteracy of the people in this region is caused by their isolation. They are from good English stock, but they do not know how to read and the times and need to be educated.
The work of sending books to the people of isolated communities in Kentucky is being carried on in various places over the country. Dr. Ida H. Hyde is in charge of it here, and she will be glad to receive contributions of books, and will forward them.
Plain Tales From The Hill
The fair co-ed's father had returned from Colorado where he purchased a ranch. He had mentioned the fact that it must be stocked with cattle. "What make will you buy, papa?" she asked.
In an instant when the University immigration laws were temporarily shelved, Eliza came. The K. U. Dramatic Club stands sponsor for her literacy, and herders as queen of the comic stuff.
There are two reasons for the fact that she comes to stay. The first is that the University's system of underground railway transportation is not fully developed, and the second is that the cool enough for the Kaw to grow can make it sliky across, as per Mrs. Stowe's masterpiece.
"SCAT! YOU HORRID MONSTER!"
After sitting with her feet on a stool for some time, one suggested to the other, "Why don't you just chase it right out of the room?" This didn't appeal to her roommate, who was studying.
If any opposer of co-education has brought forward the argument that it makes the petite feminine masculine-minded, he will change tack after hearing of the two seniors who found a meek and small spider in their room. Neither would kill it.
Shifting the hands of the clocks and watches an hour under the daylight saving plan will not terrorize or even ruffle those University men who are taking military drill. They changed the sequence of the entire routine of the day with a tie with dummy hand grenades Monday afternoon.
As the spider turned and started toward the footstool, the timid one took heart and actually chased the spider into the hall by pounding on the floor with a shoe and coining "shoe" at the beast at alternate intervals.
Lines of men faced each other and tossed the grenades at the opposite lines, as they stood in chalked camouflage trenches. The place a man's grenade lit was indicated to him by the one opposite calling out its position according to the figures on a clock.
"Hum. I wonder what o'clock that one struck," mused one of the students.
"My husband will have to stay out of the kitchen except when he washes the dishes," a University senior, speaking of her former state of unhappiness, announced today.
"Well," returned the one who threw the grenade, "call it five, and we'll be dismissed."
Memorial Tablet To Be Designed By Goldsmith
K. U. is to have a memorial for University men now in the service. A committee is working on plans for a metal tablet which will probably be placed in Fraser Hall. According to Prof. F. B. Dains of the department of chemistry who with Prof. Goldwin Goldsmith of the School of Engineering has taken part in work for memorial, the tablet will be design-
1. *toilet* will probably be divided into sections, for the navy, the army, the Y. M. C. A., and another section for those men who are not enlisted, but who are doing active government work. Opposite each one of these divisions will be placed the number of men in each group. The tablet will be so arranged that these numbers may be changed from time to time as other men go into the service. The tablet will be cast in the University shops.
Mrs. Brown Criticizes Method of Conducting Jayhawk Beauty Race
Visit of Contestants To Meeting Without Chaperones Is Scored
Help Lonesome Engineers
Adviser of Women Proposes Tentative Friendship Club For Marvin Hall Men
"Much dissatisfaction has been aroused by the manner in which the Jayhawkber Beauty Contest was conducted this year." Mrs. Eustace Brown, adviser of women, said this morning. "The fact that the engineers invited the women in the contest to visit them in their building, unnerved they might cast their votes accordingly they might have a great deal of criticism. This has never been done before in the University.
"Never before have I seen University women go out to solicit votes for their own beauty. It has always been done by their friends. While this occurred under the excitement of the moment, I trust this will be the last time such action will occur in the University of Kansas.
"The University parties are given so that men of the University may have an opportunity to meet the women in a proper and conventional way. I, as dean of women, am always glad to chapenon such a party. This obviates the necessity of any action which in any way reflects on the high ideals of the University of Kansas."
Mrs. Brown is considering organizing a friendship club or some kind of a meeting in which men of the School of Engineering will be given the opportunity to meet University women. If there is any desire among the students for such an organization Mrs. Brown will gladly formulate the plan.
Kirksmith Trio Will Finish Concert Course
Cellist, Pianist And Soprano To Give Recital Anril 3
A popular program by Karl Kirksmith, 'cellist; Mrs. Allan Taylor, soprano, and Mrs. Gladys Yves Brainard, pianist, will be given in Robinson Gymnasium, April 3 at 8:15 o'clock.
Mr. Kirksmith is widely known in Europe and America. He is a member of the New York Philharmonic Society, one of the best orchestras in this country. He was formerly first Symphony Orchestra, New York Philharmonic Symphony Society, and the Czerwynskie String Quartette.
Mrs. Brainard, who sang in concert in France, returned before the outbreak of the war. Her program is the result of careful research of the old and modern schools of composition, dating from the Sixteenth Century to the present school of modern music. Mrs. Brainard began her studies with Mr. Chicago. She later went to Europe and studied with Joseph Levyine.
Mrs. Allen Taylor of Kansas City, is soloist for two of the leading Kansas City churches and has appeared at many musical concerts in that city.
This is the fourth and last number of the University concert course.
Buy Portrait of Regent
A large picture of Scott Hopkins, of Topeka, a regent of the University for twenty years before the Board of Administration was formed to manage all the state institutions, has been purchased by the University and hung in the office of Chancellor Frank Strong. The work was done by a Topeka artist. It is a life-size portrait in natural colors with a dark background.
"Cusin' Tom" s" Verses Out
Tom D. Smith, 198, has compiled a book of verse entitled, "Patriotic Poems."
Mr. Smith was a sergeant-major of the 22nd Kansas Volunteer Infantry in the War with Spain. He is better known to University graduates and students than Mr. Smith, who played on the University football squad in "87-88-89."
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