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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOLUME XV.
Untried Kansans May Capture Track Honors Despite Tiger on Paper
NUMBER 109
Sixteen Last Year's Freshmer Build Team Around Two "K" Men
Missouri Plots Out Score
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS, THURSDAY AFTERNOON, MARCH 14, 1918.
Scholz Still Running But Simpson Not On Hand This Spring
Kansas track fans are starting to figure what the final result of the Missouri-Kansas track meet in Convention Hall, Kansas City, on Friday night will be. This year it is more difficult to decide which will be the winner, for both teams have green, untreated material. But Missouri with five regulars from last year's great team back in school should win—at least two of them, two "K" men back around which to build a team. And Murphy, one of these two, ran second to Fred Rodkoy all last season.
In spite of the fact that the remaining sixteen athletes to represent Kansas in this big indoor meet have had to be selected from the freshman squad of last year or from men new to Varsity competition, yet the Jayhawker boosters have the meet depe in favor of K. U. The think that the faithful work of the men who have come out for the team will bring victory to Coach W. O. Hamilton's team of runners and jumper.
DESKS KNOW HOLDSIS MISSUOI
The fifty-yard dash is a certain first place for the Tigers with the great Scholz running as he did last year. But there is no Simpson to come in second as he did last winter. Kansas should win second through either Lobaugh or Haddock. In the low hurdles, it looks as if Missouri would get both places judging from the work done in the K. C. A. C. meet two weeks ago. K. U. might slip in for a second place, but it does not seem likely.
In the high hurdles, Coach Hamilton has Wetly and Hobart or Simonds who are capable of pulling down at least second. The Missourians are claiming both places in this event, but are expecting too much.
TIGERS CLAIM QUARTER
As usual the Missourians are claiming first place in the quarter mile with a new recruit handling the event. Last year Missouri claimed to have four men who could do this event in less than 49 seconds, but O'Leary was able to win first in 51 seconds and beat his man in the relay later. Kansas is not boasting of the large number of runners out for this event. None of them has done remarkable work but the Kansas coaches will be disappointed if either Ralph Rodkey, Clift, or Shreve does not get at least second. But if Missouri has a man who can run the quarter in 55 seconds, the event looks bad for the Jayhawker quarter-miles.
Murphy appears to be a certain point winner in the half mile and Coffee, the other K. U. entry, has not been finishing far behind him, and may be able to get second. Roney for Missouri probably should be given credit, however, for second in the half.
In the mile, a weak event this season it looks like first place for Kansas, simply because the Tigers have no runner in the event. Flint seems to be the best man, but he may be used for the two mile and if he runs in both, the two mile should be easy picking for the Jayhawkers. Hunt, a new man discovered last week, is running first in the mile, and Dewall is the other runner. In any event, the two mile looks good for two places for the University of Kansas. Rex Brown, who ran Hanna a pretty race in the try-outs this week should finish neck and neck with Hanna.
POLE VAULT DOUBTFUL
POLE VAULT DOUBTIFY
The pole vault looks doubtful and Missouri roots are predicting first and possibly second place for their first meet. If he does not beat at least a second place, and he probably will tie or beat Sylveste, the Tiger vaulter, if he is in best trim. Rice should have little difficulty in winning first place in the high jump but Pittam of Missouri is expected to beat Howard out of second place.
The shot-put looks like a sure first place for Missouri with Berry, a veteran of last season, putting around the meet runs according to this sched-
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Mrs. E. D. Tector Gives
Lecture On Food Values
Both the lower floor and balcony were filled and some women were forced to stand through the food conservation lecture given yesterday afternoon in Praser Chapel by Mrs. E. D. Tourette, the department of home economics.
The lecture took the form of an object lesson in the various amounts of food necessary to constitute a one-hundred calorie portion, the calorie used, be the large calorie, or the amount of food required to raise one kilogram of water one degree centigrade. The actual amounts of food are all by Mrs. Teetor and a banana and one pound of lettuce were shown to have the same amount of heat value. Eighteen bananas or a bushel of lettuce, she showed, would be sufficient food for the average woman for one day, providing the calorie content were the only factor to be considered.
The War Here and Over There
WAR THOUGHT FOR TODAY Dr. Karl Liebrecht, when asked it there was any chance for a revolt in Germany, replied, "The German people have been made like sheep. Sheep don't revolt."
One pound of meat a week is the new British ration.
The German sea-raider "Wolf," returned safely after a fifteen months cruise.
German planes bombed the English coast without damage last night.
Capt. Archie Roosevelt, son of Theodore Roosevelt has been decorated by the French war cross, Croix de Guerre, for gallantry in action.
German and Austrian troops have penetrated Russia as far as Odessa, which has been captured.
One knitting club in Kansas City has undertaken to furnish 18,000 pairs of socks for the men at Camp Funston.
Nine thousand five hundred additional railroad men will be recruited in this country for service in France
Camps for the training of women farm helpers are being considered by the Department of Agriculture and the Council of Defense.
Fifteen workless days in all nonessential manufacturing plants during the planting season have been urged by the Secretary of Agriculture.
The British Admiralty has thanked the men of the American destroyer, Parker, for their bravery in rescuing survivors of the torpedoed hospital ship, Glenart Castle.
The new fighting plane, equipped with Liberty motors, has been accepted and will soon be in active use. Congress will investigate the aircraft board soon to learn the reasons for the many delays.
The School of Engineering is becoming more organized as the race proceeds. Tags saying: "Get On the Band Wagon - Senior Engineer's Voting Trust" were being worn this morning, the understanding being that all engineers who join the "trust" agree to pool their votes for one candidate. Saturday will be devoted to deciding whom the engineers' votes shall be cast for some engineers said. Polls close Saturday at 6 o'clock.
Miss Anne Hamilton of Birmingham, Ala., is the first woman to receive a commission in the United States army. Miss Hamilton, who received a commission as first lieutenant, is a bacteriologist, and will leave the commission, at the head of a unit organized to do biotherapeutical work.
George Creel, chairman of the committee on public information, has sent a written protest to President Wilson against the War Department's new policy of withholding the addresses in casualty lists.
The in Triangular Debate Oklahoma won from Colorado in the triangular debate at Colorado. This makes the debate a tie, as the negative teams of these two schools and Kansas won in each contest. The decision at Boulder was two to one in favor of the Sooners.
Form Voting Trust
Tie In Triangular Debate
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Folbles of Contemporary World Flashed In Maze of Scenic Variety
Aladdin Is Outdone In Follies Fantasie Of Social Seditions
Kaleidoscopic Glory Bursts
Castles in Spain Fall Befor Chinese Magic and Let U. S. A. Have Climax
Vanity is vanity; all is vanity. Folloy is worse and worse. And yet worse when it is plural. Thus reasoned the Censor as he yanked out the last long red spear of his wrangled hair at dress rehearsal of the annual K. U. Follies which just danced on his protests and marched on towards the culmination due Thursday night. "Thanks be, these come only once a year," he said as he landed on terra cotta in the corridor.
The Beta banjo beaters, three on them, strummed requiem to the departed eynic and the she went on. Good things kept coming by threes
—the Rubes, Hicks,—or just plain roses Agriculturists did their turn against a background of prairie pumpkins. And then they went their way. Temple bells tinkled and incense sprinkled and stars of China were lined up like a deeply sleepy poppies the whole Orient waffed in. A wand did it, a golden rod in the hand of a magician who has startled the whole world so far as the world is circumstanced by the Orpheum circuit.
But China with all the almond eyed maidens with pouncing bells on their feet, China with all the splendor of blues—cherry blossoms, wisteria, chrysanthemums—China had to fade away. San Domingo blossomed in China's place. Nobody got the song but the dance was divine. She had the lingo well, but that didn't matter—everyone was watching her feet as she pirouetted to the music of a soft tropical night.
The sphaget duet sung itself in. Italy had arrived before anyone knew San Domingo had gone. "Oh Plague I Itchy" simply raised heaven an inch higher. That wasn't all. They had throats like nickel-plated accordions and filled lil' mating meadow larks for seven grand encounters. They were good.
"These are just fragments, just a few of the song hits," the impresario explained to the Censor who had mustered courage to return.
"Then there is more?" he faltered queriously.
"Ah, yups, much more," vouchsafed the impressario. "It all comes together at the end and the ensemble is chest-protected by flags of all nations that fight for right today. We all come home to the good old U. S. A. and the spot light of setting sun for the Follies of 1918 falls on the folds of the Flag of the Freed. Shoftall's orchestra will strike up the Star Spangled Banner."
Students as well as residents of Lawrence received the startling information today, proclaimed in red ink, that "Eliza Comes to Stay." Even Registrar George O. Foster knows nothing about Eliza and as far back as the seniors can remember no one has dared come here to stay without surrendering a goodly portion of his life and giving his history to him before being allowed consider themselves permanently located. Register Foster could not say, however, that he objected to Eliza's coming.
A board of the Y. W. C. A. censored the Follies last night at the final rehearsal. Only two features were eliminated. A late report from the manager this afternoon said that there was some difficulty being experienced in obtaining enough overalls.
Eliza Has "Came"
But Few Know Her
But the wise student who usually has inside information on what is going on and on who is coming and the professors who are usually consulted he will be still guessing as to the identity of this mysterious, elusive Eliza.
Mrs. Eustace Brown seems to have authentic information as to just who
After careful study of the conflicting reports the consensus of opinion is that Eliza is one of "Our Kansas Girls."
Government to Delay Opening Army Schools For Drafted Mechanics
Action of Officials Will Not Be Definite Until After June 1
June 1
Training in Auto School
Two Automobile Schools i Kansas City Have Been Chosen for Men
Action of army officials regarding the establishment of a technical army school at K. U. for men called in the second draft has been delayed until at least after June 1, according to information given out by Chancellor Strong this morning. Notice to this effect has just been received by the Selection of schools of this sort made limited to schools for automobile training and no university or college either in Kansas or Missouri has been selected. Two automobile schools in Kansas City, Missouri, were chosen.
The plan of the government was to establish training schools in several universities to instruct drafted men in automobile engineering, aviation engineering and blacksmithing. Both K. U. and the State Agricultural College were inspected by army men and it was thought that government schools might be established at both these institutions. The facilities of the school, like the University are very good for this work and the permanent school would have been established at the School of Engineering. This would have necessitated the dismissal of the engineering students on May 1.
Although technical training schools have been limited to automobile schools of instruction at the present time it is not impossible that the school will be established at the University after June 1, according to Chancellor Strong. The final settlement of the draft date may definitely decide where the training schools will be located.
Sophomores Lead In Big Surgical Dressing Drive at University
Campaign Is Extended Ur Monday—Helen Bender Holds Record
The sophomores lead in the big surgical dressing drive with 168 hours pledged to the work; the juniors follow with an average of 149 hours; the seniors dropped to third with a total of 101 hours; the freshmen are fourth with an average of eighty-three hours. This makes a total of 497 hours pledged to the surgical dressing work thus far.
The campaign has been extended to Monday as it has been difficult for some of the committee members to find the girls which have been assigned to them, but Monday the final vote will be taken and the winner in the big campaign announced. Helen Bender one of the sophomore memoirs for turning in eighty-three hours of work in the hours that has been turned. All the committee members are asked to turn in their hours as soon as possible so that a final estimate of the work can be determined.
All of the committees are asked to meet Monday afternoon at 5 o'clock in Room 218, Fraser Hall, to conclude preparations for plans for the surgical dressing work.
Will Play Second Series
In Women's Tournament
The second series of games in the Intramural basketball tournament will be played Friday afternoon, March 15 at 4:15 o'clock. These teams will play: Skappa Phi vs. Brush League Sigma Kappa vs. Gamma Phi Beta W. A. A. Board vs. Twelfth District, Patterson Club vs. Chi Omega.
In the games Tuesday evening Kappa Alpha Theta won from Pi Beta Phi 36;9. Faculty XI won from Allemania 15;7. Alpha XI won from Omega 18;9. Y., X. C.A. won from Omega Kappa Gamma 30-10.
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Still a Few Vacancies In Cast of "Fifty-Fifty'
"Most of the cast for the senior play, 'Fifty-Fifty' has been selected, but their names will not be made public until the two or three places still vacant are filled," said Robert Robertson, manager of the play this morning. The tryouts are continuing and the entire cast will be announced soon
The practices for the play will commence immediately in order to get the play ready for presentation in April. The exact date for the play has not been decided.
Plain Tales From The Hill
Although most of the weather prophets, goose-bone and otherwise, have knocked on wood immediately after prophesying that "Spring has came," one sign that is a sure precursor has appeared on the campus. Along the whole line of students taat stretches along the sidewalks from Haworth Hall to Spooner, the bright spring coats of the co-ed eads dasc the masculine eye. Vivid reds, "yallers" purple, greens and combinations of colors that defy classification are displayed. And it is said that "following the colors" is not unpopular among some on these spring days.
It was an economics class, having a heated argument as to which was the richer and better community; the one that spends money freely or the one that saves money.
Contrary to appearances, the sweaters the spring football men are wearing are not made of discarded lace curtains or worn off mosquito netting. Neither did moths eat the holes they during the months they have lain idiom. Advice from one of the football men explains that they are simply a "holesome" form of conservation.
Although no evidences of a crime wave have appeared at K. U., nevertheless hold-ups have become so frequent that many have suggested personal bodyguards for students few days ago practically every student was held up by solicitors for the K. U. Follies and in many cases the victims were forced to search their own pockets.
Professor: "But, Miss Burke said that money circulates just as rapidly when you put it in the bank as when you spend it for gasoline. What do you say to that, Brown?"
Brown, with a sigh like that of a dying gladiator: "Not a thing."
Laslett Elected Captain Of 1918 Basketball Team
Now groups of fair thug-ettes waylay all comers in the halls of nearly all the buildings, canvassing for Jayhawker purchasers. Practically all these acts occur in broad daylight. Thus far no complaints have been made to the local police.
No Basketball Letters Were Awarded At Annual Banquet Last Night
Seubby Laslett, captain-elect of the football team for the 19th season, was elected captain of the basketball team for the coming year at the annual basketball banquet last night at Bricken's Cafe. Laslett, who is a junior in the college has played at guard on the K. U. five for the last two seasons and this year he was named as all valley guard on one of the All-Mis souri Valley teams picked by conference officials.
Laslett has been the main factor in the great smashing play which has characterized the Jayhawker attack in basketball for the last two seasons. He was selected as an all-valley end and then named captain of the eleven.
Four K. U. Men Called In First County Draft
Four K. U. men, Dr Winthrop P. Haynes, G. James. A grkr. Erval Coffey, and Hugh L.Hook, are among the sixteen men to be called in the draft in Douglas County. Only eight men are needed to fill the quota for this county, but farmers will be required to fill the quota, have enlisted, making it necessary to notify sixteen registrants in order to get eight men for service.
This is the first increment of men to be called from this county under the draft. More than enough men had enlisted from the county to fill the quota for the first draft.
Fifty Scientists Meet In Semi-Centennial Of Academy of Science
Ex-Chancellor Snow Active in Starting Organization Back in 1867
War Cut Down Attendance
"There would have even been a larger "representation," said Mr. Wilson, secretary of the organization, "but on account of war conditions many of the members were working over time and many of the members will be unable to attend."
Troubles With Indians Hindered Members From Participating in Early Meetings
Fifty scientists from colleges over the state are expected at the Semicentennial session of the Kansas Academy of Science which will open in Snow Hall Friday. Besides these, two other academies have accepted the invitation to participate in the Anniversary exercises.
The Kansas Academy of Science was organized at Topeka, 1867, in the old Lincoln College. Ex-Chancellor Snow of the University was active in starting the organization.
"At this time," said Mr. Wilson, traveling was made difficult by the Indians. At one meeting held in Topeka a representative from Manhattan as unable to come because a party of Indians were on the war-path. The membership now reaches two hundred.
WILL REMIVE ITS ACTIVITIES
The Academy will reconvene at 1:30 p. m. in Snow Hall for the anniversary session at which the entire program will be devoted to a review of the activities of the academy and to the scientific progress in Kansas in the last half century.
At 4:30 p. m., the Academy will adjourn to Frasier Hall where the chief lecture of the session will be given by Professor S. W. Williston, of the University of Chicago. At 6:00 p. m. the dinner will be held for the Academy to receive prizes, and guests. Professor E. H. S. Bailey will act as taesterm.
PAPERS COVER WIDE RANGE
On Saturday the main session will be held for the reading of the papers from general progress. These include a list of subjects, and represent the work of the faculty at Academy throughout the state. Among the papers which may be especially mentioned are those by Dean Sayre on "War Bread and Coffee," and by Professor Terrill on the "New Kansas-Oklahoma Zinc Field." The meeting of the Academy will be
Some person entered Spooner Library last night and stole the photographs of the University women in "Our Kansas Girls" contest from the bulletin board which has been taken from its place on the campus each night and placed in the Library Hall. The robbery occurred between 9:30 and 10 o'clock, as the pictures were seen by several students leaving the building at half an hour before the library closed.
Somebody Liked Photos And So They Took Them
The meeting of the Academy will be open to the public.
It was probably the work of more than one person, because the lock on the bulletin board was pried loose and broken, and the card with the name of the person who is going to Vote For? was turned over and "Thanks?" scrawled on its back.
Theft of Beauty Pictures Hurts Contest Which Ends Saturday
The theft has been reported to the University authorities, and drastic action may be taken if the thief is discovered. The pictures in the case were expensive, costing from a dollar to ten dollars each.
Interest in the race had developed to fever heat today, with all candidates urging their friends to buy Jayhawkers and cast votes in their favor. The last count before the final one will be made this afternoon, and the standings will appear on television between acts, at the K. U. Follies. The number of votes which the leading contestant has polled will also be given out.
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