UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOLUME XV.
Follies Convulse Big Audience That Rocks Gym to Foundation
Giddy Giddap Chorines Upset All Precedent In Encored Success
Throng Bursts into Cheers
NUMBER 110.
Most Fun K. U. Ever Had For Quarter of a Dollar
Not a seat was left in the gymnasium last night when the curtain rolled up to reveal the first act of the annual Folies. The thrilling drummers let loose promptly and set the big crowd swaying with the contagious rhythm of joy hitting the strings. Willis Vanderschmidt, Edwin Patton, and Paul Pulliam made the banjos ring and Bea Kleir did some incidental singing when fingers got tired.
This was only preliminary. Everything was preliminary until the Fun knifville Home Guards marched on board with the Liberty Belles. It was all good but this was like the Grand Canyon to the vales of the Ozarks. Hester Jackson and deh Hart galloped in in jaunty uniforms that were just a perfect fit. As soon as the first stamza of Gidday Giddan had got the front rows going, in stomped the overall chorus to crown glory with glory and set every last chair to the back of the gymnasium titting and jumping. Etta Poland next led the chorus in "Keep Your Eye on Little Mary Brown" and "Somewhere in France is a Lily." Little Mary certainly needed the watchful observation. She got it.
MUST MENTION CHORUS
The chorus which had this line-up, for the piay Mildred Payne, Myrtle Steen, Rilla Hammet, Genevieve Seairles, Ealaine Wharton, Charlotte Carnie, Agatha Kincley, Tereene Cutter, Eleanor Klee, Irene Edma, Eleanor The Chinese girls who laveled up a lajpa parade in Nemo's Land were; Velma Walters, Jessink Rankin, He尔唐 Thurston, Alberta Mack, Nell Miles, Ramona Kirkpatrick, Eloise MeNuitt, Dorothea Engel. Names can never tell how they locked together.
There were other choruses too-witness the Singing Sirens who swept in with Red Cross blazing bags under the arms, with bonnets and a minute to make them sweet and quaint. Dorothy Button and Jessie Wyatt tripped gracefully through "Knit, Knit, Knit," Ethel Wykoff and Karl Brown sweat their pathetic way "Back to Italy" with feeling that found response in the gallery as well on the floor; Beatrice Klein successfully introduced a harmonious San Domingo which Willard Pierce broke up with a realistic revolution with drums and traps; and Irene Jarden gave the act benediction with "Loves Lullaby."
Registration of joy was order-of-
from Marvin Harmes, Dorothea Engel,
and Bert Cochrane. They registered.
So did the house beyond the foottights. "No checkee no lauee" was the general idea of Harold Stanley's feet with iron and shirt—with the assistance of a colorful Chinese chorus that chinked in the chinky chimes at the right places. Craig Kennedy stirred fond memories and livey imaginations in his circus-yoo-hoolny and kayne and his old schildren and people expected under the big top, where three rings had done something until the good old concert for each and everyone, man, woman, and child, came to complete the greatest show on earth.
Then there was the farce—somewhere in the show—all aglow—tumultuous, terrific, smashing in its power to spread ribs and scatter hairpins. “Paddle Your Own Cane,” it was named and each major fraternity it was given by the Phi Alpha Tau honorary dramatic fraternity assisted by Misses Eva Hangen, Marie Buchann, and Rhea Diveley.
The dentist and the music-master get deserved and earned grilles despite magnificent intrusions of ma of one bride, pa of another, musical talent, millions of dollars, and abstereous patients. Craig Kennedy and Harold Lyle with leading roles well known by landlords Karl Brown, Barney Moyer, Robert Robertson, Gene Carter, and A. Fellow. Laughing Gas got the real comedy started in the dentist's office and it didn't stop there.
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS, FRIDAY AFTERNOON, MARCH 15, 1918.
Woman's Land Army Organizing For Action
The County Clubs will meet on Tuesday night at 7 o'clock in Fraser Hall, Room 110 for the purpose of deciding where to work. For farm work, for girls.
The Kansas Unit of the Woman's Land Army proposes that women take the place of drafted men on Kansas farms during the summer vacation. At the meeting on Tuesday night a plan will be worked out, for organizing community centers from which girls will go and work.
Every woman student in the University is urged to attend this meeting, and one girl from each county has been notified to be present.
The War Here and Over There
WAR THOUGHT FOR TODAY
WAR THOUGHT FOR TODAY
"Riper will eventually prevail," says the Kaiser, but offers no apology for delaying the day.—Kansas City Star.
General Pershing's latest casualty consists of seventy names, sixteen killed and fifty-four injured.
The Senate military committee has unanimously disapproved the objection to laws giving men in the aviation service an increase in pay of about fifty per cent.
The American artillery stopped fur-ter German gas raids by destroying four groups of gas projectors this week in the Toul sector.
The administration will give Congress first hand information from now on as to the progress of the war, in order to avoid criticism of the secrecy of the war plans.
A bill for increasing the enlisted personnel of the navy from 150,000 to 228,000 has been submitted to the committee on naval affairs in the House.
A concrete ship was successfully launched at a Pacific port yesterday, and the experiment was so successful that the makers have decided to build fifty-four more at once.
President Wilson has issued a proclamation calling upon all boys over sixteen years of age to enroll in the National Boys' Workside, during the week of March 18 in order to do farm work
The American Rainbow Division is holding an important portion of the Lorraine sector. General Gerard, commander of the 8th French army, commended them recently for their bravery in repulsing the German raid of March 5.
The National Food Administration is planning to increase the meat exports to the Allies by fifty per cent. The Allies have agreed to furnish all the shipping to take care of the extra transportation.
A bill calling for a naval appropriation of $1,325,000,000 was reported out by the House committee on naval affairs Thursday. This is the largest appropriation ever asked for the United States navy.
The Allies will seize one million tons of Dutch shipping March 18 unless Holland accepts the proposed agreement providing for their use in the war. According to international law, belligerents may seize neutral shipping if sufficient compensation is made.
Three full baskets he gathered. But he was liberal in his research and included tins cans, brickbats, rejected manuscript of famous people, and cast-off articles of former apparel of less famous people.
Campus beautiful got into his heart. Then he began penitence with a spiked stick and a bushel basket. He worked until the job was done.
Jayhawk bills blew everywhere after they had left the hands of Hill climbers this morning. And Don Davies almost wept. He was responsi- tive to his injuries, pillowed sign frame and had distributed the latest news to all comers.
Don Does Very Best To Beautify Campus
"Just got to have a beautiful setting for my beauties to walk in," said Davis the Don as the noon whistle shattered the day.
Dr. Chapman's Meeting In Gymnasium Comes At 7:30 o'Clock Sunday
Four Advanced to Accomodate Visitor Who is Visiting Colleges
Because the speaker of the evening has to take a 9 o'clock train out of Lawrence, the J. Wilbur Chapman meeting will be held at Robinson Cyanamusium Sunday evening at 7:30 instead of at 8 o'clock as first plenums.
Doctor Chapman, who is chairman of the National Service Commission of the Presbyterian Church, as well as mediator of the General Assembly of that body, is making a tour of the colleges of the country in the interests of religious and educational reasons. R. C. Hughes, secretary of the Section on University Work of the Presbyterian Board of Missions.
Doctor Chapman will be in Lawrence all day Sunday, addressing the Presbyterian University students' Bible class at 9:30 and speaking at the First Presbyterian Church at 10:30. The subject will be, "What is the Use of Religion?" Chancellor Frank Strong will preside at this meeting.
"I wish that every student in the University would make a special effort to hear Dr. Chapman," said Chancellor Strong today. "He is one of the most powerful evangelists and religious leaders of our country and, as an educator and an author of many books, he has a prominent place in the curriculum. He is bright at Lawrence under the auspices of the ministerial alliance of the city, I think it my duty to offer the use of Robinson Gymnasium for the address so that every one may have the opportunity to hear him."
It's a Great Job
Says Paris of Troy
"I hope the Jayhawk fellows have better luck than I did in picking the most beautiful women of the times," said Mr. Paris, lute of the city of Troy.
"Well do I remember the beautiful spring morning when Venus and Juno called me to umpire the first beauty contest. Oh, that I had had the wisdom that I now have! Think of the long years of war that might have been avoided! How much more the Huns would have had to study out for themselves if we had not first had the Trojan horse trick played! Oh, that I had heeded the words of Father Priam, "Bewared of women!"
And luckless Paris wandered discombustibly about the broad spaces of Paris.
"I realize now," continued the visitor from by-gone ages, "that beauty is not only in the lines of a profile, nor dainty lips. There is a sparkle in the eye, a fleeting smile that will transform any face.
"Stop your laughing! Haven't had three thousand years to study over this? Haven't heard that old scrib伯, Ruskin, expatiating on the inability of an artist to put light into a picture; or the inability of color: of the picture; the flag of the eye, the smile, are the light which oc cur only in nature."
GO TO Y. W. Conference
A number of K. U. women will go to Ottawa tonight to attend a Y. W. Y. A. conference of the new cabinets in the various schools over the state. Among those who will go are: Dorothy Sandberg, Miriam Merritt, Esther Moore, Evelyn Rorabach, Margaret Walker, Dorothy McCamish, Mary Barnett, Jean Coffin, Helen Jackson, Margaretta Stévenson, Mary Brownne, Imogene Gillispie, Viola Engle, Sellie Reece Evans, Edna Burch and Ray Dodderidge.
And like a wraith the visitor disappeared.
Go To Y. W. Conference
George Terry Called To Washington. George Terry, a graduate student in the University, with his minor in the Bacteriology Department, has been called to the Army Medical School at Washington, to finish his training preliminary to doing bacteriological work for the government.
Cyrus Crane, 'I57, has been nominated on the Republican ticket for mayor of Kansas City. Crane has been practicing law in Kansas City since he was graduated from the University. He has held no public office before.
High Schools Fight For Honors in Tourney Held Here Next Week
District Winners Will Enter Basketball Meet For State Championship
The State high school basketball tournament to be held here next Friday and Saturday will be as big as any tournament in the past, if entries and inquiries already received by Manager Hamilton from a large number of high schools over the state are any indication. Although the entries are not due until tomorrow, several are already on hand and waiting to be listed. Manager Hamilton said he expected the entry list would equal that of last year.
The competition should be much greater than last year, when Newton ran away with the state title after a series of easy victories. Several teams in the state seem to be equally matched this year. Newton, with the same pair of little forwards who worked so well here last year, is certain to be in the running. Wichita must also be taken as a contender for the title, as it has an excellent record in the Arkansas Valley League and has been the only team to beat Newton. Wichita has also defeated Central High of Kansas City, but has won to Winfield and Arkansas City.
LAWRENCE CHANCES GOOD
Atchison, Topka, Leavenworth and Bonner Springs seem to be the class of the first district and it is probable that most of these teams will be represented here next Friday and Saturday. Lawrence High has an excellent chance to finish high this year and there are plenty of the followers of the Lawrence quarterback team until the last. Iola, Ottawa and Fort Scott are other Second District teams with classy records.
Chanute, Parsons, Winfield and Arkansas City stand supreme in the third district and Emporia has already defeated Marion for the fourth district title. Emporia has a veteran team and should give the other quintets a great battle for the state championship. Solomon will represent the fifth district here next week, having defeated the fast Manhattan five on the Manhattan court for the district title several days ago. Little is known of the sixth district fives and Hutchinson, Nickerson and Kingman probably have the best quintets in the seventh district.
Leader of Beauty Race Has Polled 31,360 Votes
Annual Manager Announced Standing of Contestants at Follies in Gym
With Hester Jackson still in the lead,next to the last count in the "Our Kansas Girls" Contest was made at the Follies. The final count will be made after the polls close Saturday, at 6 p.m. Miss Jackson, who was leading last night, has polled a total of 31,300 votes.
The other candidates, in the order of their standing, are: Earline Allen, Hazel Cook, Myrte Stone, Marie Buchanan, Louise Logan, Elieen Vanzand, Josephine Huhn, Jessie Wyatt, Frances Adams, Jessie Buck, Laurine Lynn, Rheast, Diveley, Dorothy Wiggins.
The contest closes Saturday at 6 o'clock. The Jayhawker office in the Kansan building will be open all day and the only ballot box will be stationed there. All votes cast must be brought to the Jayhawker office.
"Several seniors and a large number of organizations have not yet paid their dues," said Harry Morgan, editor of the Jayhawker, this morning. "They must do so if they want their votes to be counted in the 'Our Kansen Leaders' initiative for space, from seniors, juniors, sophomores, and organizations, and every cent paid in for subscriptions to the Jayhawker is good for one vote."
It was rumored that the engineers had decided to whom they would give their pooled votes; and various "campaign managers" have been making statements that their candidate had "held out" enough votes to counteract the engineering vote in case it went against them.
The Methodist League will give a party in Myers Hall tonight at 8 o'clock for all Methodist students and their friends.
Seniors Should Consult Foster About Degrees
Members of the senior class are being notified to report at the Registrar's office in the next few days to check over their credits and grades for application for degrees.
Each school in the University has its own requirements for degrees granted for the completion of the four year's work and in the College a requirement is also made that a candidate for the A. B. degree must have a record of eighty hours of I's and II's and A's B's and Cs. Each senior's record must be checked over to see that all requirements have been met and then the application for the degree must be filed.
Plain Tales From The Hill
Two world worn and weary University men stood in front of the beauties of the Hill, as portrayed in the frame at the parting of the ways.
"Aw, well, they all look alike outside a picture," one drawled cynically. "I don't know any of them, anyway."
In addition to the little things that count, the masculine student finis larger boulders that obstruct his well-paved path. Such as, for instance:
Financial weakness when you are trying to do a good job of rushing your girl in competition with five other fellows.
News that the family will come to visit you on the following week-end and you are dated up every night.
Long discussion in first meeting when you have a date at the library and it is almost time for Spooner to close.
Company E of the military drill regiment had stood the strain of getting itself photographed Wednesday afternoon. The photographer had finished the job, then he captain, Burney Miller, nodded, and said; "All right," sergeant."
When she is happy, she bursts out into a French love song: "Pour un peu d'amour," and so on. When her typewriter nulled strikes the wrong letter, or her memory falls her in a quiz, she grows up at the offender's house. She starts a beginning of a former favorite German lyric the language translating into the terrorizing words of hatred: "Thou't like unto a flower."
One University woman has an appropriate war-time system of ejaculations when she is tickled or peeved.
It was in the suffragist invasion of the School of Engineering, One of the fair supporters of a candidate in Congress that he rushed up to an innocent engineer.
Qquhe test: "Have you bought your Jayhawker?"
Engineer: "Yeh."
She again: "Have you voted?"
Innocence once more: "What! Are you in the beauty contest?"
The fair supporter turned away and asked the next engineer.
Osage City Publisher
Gives Hints to Students
Journalism Classes Hear How To Get News, and Advertising
Scientists on Campus For 50th Anniversary Of State Organization
H. C. Sticher, editor of the Osage City Free Press, spoke to classes in Journalism this morning. Mr. Sticher brought with him copies of a special edition of his paper published Thursday covering Baby Bonds and Thrift Stamps.
He made the special edition possible by getting local merchants to run advertisements under the war-captions. Out of ninety-six columns in the paper, seventy-three were devoted to patriotic advertisements. Mr. Sticher says it is possible to convince any one of the advantages of advertising if the proposition is just put up to him in the right way.
Mr. Sticher spoke to the Newspaper i. class on 'the best methods of getting news for a weekly paper', to the class in Newspaper II. on "the Suppression of News," and to the class in Problems and Policies on "Ways of conducting a campaign in newspapers." All of these talks were informal. Mrs. Sticher accompanied her husband. They are the guests of the Rev, and Mrs. Frank Jennings of the First Baptist Church.
The British aviators did better work during the first ten days of March than at any time during the war, destiny 39 German planes.
Visitors From Other States Represent Kindred Organizations
Doctor Williston Speaker
Annual Academy Dinner to Be Held Tonight—Papers to Be Read Saturday
With members here from all parts of Kansas, and with fraternal delegates present from similar societies in other states, the Kansas Academy of Science today began the celebration of its semi-centennial. Dr. S. W willison formerly a member of the University of Kansas faculty, graduated from the University of Kansas as the chief speaker and there will be other papers of importance by men, experts in their several lines of endeavor.
The meetings which are being held in Snow Hall, began this morning with a business session. The semicentennial exercises occupied the earlier part of the afternoon session, when President Frank U. G. Agrelius talked on "A Half Century of Bacteriology." In a symposium of fifty years of scientific development in Kansas, W. A. Harshbarger talked on the history of the Academy of Science; L. C. Wooster on botany, E. Chemistry, Erasmus Haworth on geology and pathology, W. J. Baumgartner on zoology, J. W. McWharf on the early history of medicine and L. E. Sayre on the early history of pharmaceutical and medical chemistry.
The annual Academy dinner will be held at 6 o'clock tonight, with
the event being free.
The principal address of the afternoon was given by Dr. Williston, who spoke on "The Growth of Science During the Last Half Century."
Saturday sessions will be devoted to business and to the reading of technical papers by members.
Dr. H. v. W. Shulte, from the Medical College Creighton University represents the New York Academy of Science. Also present is Prof. Raymond Poal, University of Nebraska, who represents the Torrey Botanical Club, Prof. T. E. McKinney from the University of South Dakota represents the South Dakota Academy.
Surgeon-General Wants Women Bacteriologists
Women Will Serve in Hospitals Located In Cities But Not Camps
According to a letter received by Lucile Collins of the department of bacteriology from Colonel Russel of the surgeon-general's office, through the Council of National Defense, there is a governmental need for women trained in bacteriological work to act as technicians.
These women will serve in the army hospitals located in large cities or summer hotels but not in camps, and will be known as medical aids or as laboratory technicians under military control directly responsible to Colonel Ruzel. It is not necessary for the women to have an M. D. or a Ph.D. degree, but it is important that they should be thoroughly familiar with bacteriolike technique. When the women are stationed at a hospital affording nurses the salary will be the rate of $720 a year with board and lodging and a certain amount of laundry; otherwise the arrangement will be through the Civil Service with a salary of $1200 a year but no allowances.
Women who are interested in the work should write to Richard M. Pearce, Chairman, Division of Medicine and Related Sciences, giving a brief summary of their training, a statement concerning the time of post graduation from some bacteriologist with whom they have worked.
Miss Collin's name has been submitted to Mr. Pearce, and the letter was written, with a view to asking her to be called by the Surgeon-general's office.
Moors, a freshman who made good on the McPherson College basketball team this year, has been elected captain of the 1919 five.