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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOLUME XV.
Twenty-Five Players Try For Two Places On Baseball Nine
NUMBER 107.
Many Men Are Out for Battery Positions This Spring
Few Veterans Returned
Many Candidates Shifted to Football Until Out-door Work Starts
The squad of baseball battery men working out daily in Robinson Gymnasium has grown to such proportions that yesterday Coach Dutch' Wedell ordered all but ten pitches and five catchers to report at McCook Field this afternoon and check out football suits. They will remain on McCook Field and practice there under the direction of Coach Jay Bond until the beginning of outdoor practice.
Thirty-five men including both freshmen and Varsity candidates, reported in the gymnasium yesterday afternoon and there was not room for the entire squad on the floor at once. Nearly twenty-five are trying for the Varsity. Caler, Schoepel, Slawson, and Goodwin, candidates for pitching jobs on the Varsity, and Palmer, Pierce, Harms, Marxen, Shields and Murphy, freshmen pitchers, will remain in the gymnasium and work out every afternoon between 4 and 4:30 o'clock.
Because of the large number of pitchers in preparation to the number of catchers, the entire squad of both Varsity and freshmen backstops will stay inside and warm up the hurlers. Cooper, Kitchen and Hershey, among the Varsity Catchers have shown good form in handling the pitchers and with Bunn, who will probably report next week, should help Coach Bond in solving the catching problem by the enlistment of Captain-elect Carter and the graduation of Smith, another last season backstop.
Men Will Not be Admitted Because of Lack of Seating Capacity in Chapel
Teetor to Talk Wednesday On Food Conservation
Other candidates who have been working out in the gym for the pitching staff are Willems, Morgan, Harri Eagles, Keeler and Shores and for catching positions, Madden and Logan. Freshmen pitches are Palmer, Pierce, Harms, Mars, Shields, Murphy, Boyd, Wilcox, Judkins, Aach, Linski, Louden, Harrison, Harver and Sanson and catchers are Brite, Desmond, Chestnut, Eddy, Barter and Buckstra.
All women of the University are requested to attend regardless of their intended life work: pedagogy medicine, journalism, or missionary work at home or in the foreign field. Thus far the men have shown as much interest as the women.
The lectures by E. D. Teeter on Food and the War will be continued Wednesday afternoon at 4 o'clock. On account of the interest shown by the men and because of the limited seating capacity of Fraser Chapel, none but women will be admitted to this lecture. It is not known what the lecture will be about.
Skilton Writes New Cantata
Skilton writes New Cana-
ter another cantato has been writ-
ed by Prof. C. S. Skilton, of the K. U.
School of Fine Arts. While he was
on his summer visit at the MacDowell
colony in Peterboro, New Hampshire,
Professor Skilton wrote the "Witches
Daughter."
It is now being published by the Charles Fischer Music company, in New York, and will be ready for the public by May. Professor Skilton received his idea from a poem by William G. Whittier.
Carey Goes Into Aviation
Walters, Carey, '19 with withdrawn from the University to enter the aviation camp at Berkeley, Cal. He left for the new position March 11. Carey has been assistant secretary to Coach W. O. Hamilton this year.
Women's Glee Club will meet at 7 o'clock in Fraser Chapel. All money for concert tickets which has not been turned in must be brought to the meeting.
Marie Buchanan, Manager.
Recital by Students In Fraser Hall Tonight
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS, TUESDAY AFTERNOON, MARCH 12, 1918.
Students in the School of Fine Ats will give a musical recital in Fraser Chapel tonight. The program will consist of organ, piano, violin and vocal numbers. The entertainment is open to the University.
Leah Stewart who took the leading part in "The Chimes of Normandy" last year will have a part on the program. Helen Weed and Dean H. . Butler and Ednah Hopkins, who has appeared in many Kansas towns in concert work, will also take part in the recital.
The War Here and Over There
WAR THOUGHT FOR TODAY
WAR THOUGHT FOR TODAY
The bureau of labor statistics announces that the cost of living in Germany is increasing at the rate of 42 per cent a year. But who wants to live in Germany?
American troops successfully raided the German trenches in the sector north of Toul yesterday. This was the first raid the "Sammies" have made alone.
President Wilson has sent a message of sympathy and a pledge of aid to the Russian Congress of Soviets which meets today at Moscow to discuss the peace terms accepted by the Bolshivik. Petrograd dispatches say that Premier Lenine dismissed Foreign Minister Trotzky on account of his opposition to the German offer. Harbin, in Manchuria, has been named as the capital of the Siberian provisional government.
General Pershing yesterday- reported the names of twenty-eight men killed in action.
A recent proclamation compels the licensing of all private flying machines in the United States.
German planes flew 300 miles yesterday and bombed the residential section and a hospital in Napel, Italy.
Five new destroyers have been named for famous naval heroes. The names are: Thatchter, Palmer, Lambertson, Tattnall, and Kennison.
Mrs. Lean Gulbert Ford, who wrote "Keep the Home Fires Burning," was one of the victims of the last German air raid on London.
The average cost of training a soldier in the sixteen national army cantonment is $158. The cost per capita at Camp Funston is $133.
Fifty-seven New York restaurants have been forced to close for one day because they violated the "beefless" and "porkless" day ruling.
"The Soldiers' Families of America," a new patriotic organization, attempts to care for the families of soldiers which may need assistance.
The officers of the 342nd Regiment Field Artillery, at Camp Funston, are endeavoring to secure all the star athletes who are drafted for their unit.
The Kansas State Agricultural College and the University of Kansas have been asked to help train airplane mechanics. About 100 men will go to Manhattan soon to work in the shops there.
Wall Street experts declare that Liberty Bonds will increase in value at the end of the war, the 3 1-2 per cent bonds selling for between 106 and 110, and the fours at 117 or more.
Innes Scholarship Date Extended The Innes Memorial Scholarship for women, is again open to the women of the University, due to the fact that the woman to whom it was awarded last year has withdrawn from school. The time for the receiving of all applications was to have the woman to whom David Pennynah Oliver, of the department of Romance language, who has charge of the scholarship, but the time has been extended to March 18.
Eight National army men, stationed at Camp Dodge, Ia., who had refused to obey orders on account of Socialist beliefs, have been sentenced to long terms in the federal prison at Leavenworth.
The Kansan Board will meet Wednesday night at 7:15. Late comers will be considered absent.
Send the Daily Kansan Home.
Thermometers on Bulletin Boar Will Indicate Rising Attendance Daily
Students Are Flocking To Surgical Dressing Classes of University
Results of the campaign for increased enrollment in surgical dressings work will be indicated on the thermometers which were put up this morning on the bulletin board. Large committees of women in each class are asking every woman in the University to enroll for at least one hour of surgical dressings work a week, and each class is trying to secure workers for the largest number of hours a week.
The campaign will close Wednesday night. By that time all women will have been asked to support this urgent war activity. Members of the committees are urging the absolute need of having every University woman join this Red Cross work in order to protect herself. This is imperative that no American men die in France for want of surgical dressings and equipment.
Classes in first aid and home nursing will be organized and started next week. Miss Margaret Lynn, chairman of women's war work in the University announced this morning. Dr. A.W. Clark will instruct the first aid class, and a trained nurse will probably teach home nursing, an entirely practical course. Definite announcements concerning the time and place for these classes will be made later in the Kansan.
More Men Are Needed For Senior Play Cast
Try-outs Will Be Continued A Little Theater in Green Hall Tonight
"More senior men are needed to try out for the cast of the senior play, "Fifty-Fifty,"" said Prof. Arthur MacMurray of the department of public speaking, this morning. There are eight men characters, four juvenile, and four character parts, in the play. All of these parts are good and there is an excellent opportunity for new men to make places on the cast.
About thirty-five persons tried out for the fourteen places on the cast last night. The tryout tonight will be open to new contestants. All those who tried for places last night and some contestants are asked to come to meet them tonight at 7:30 o'clock in the Little Theater in Green Hall.
Kellogg Is Biographer Of Food Boss Hoover
Former University Instructo Has Periodical Article on "Hoover the Man"
Each person seeking a place as given a manuscript to read parts of the play. A senior may try for as many different characters as he desires. The final cast will not be chosen until the end of this week.
Vernon L. Kellogg, former instructor in entomology at the University, and later professor of entomology at Leland Stanford University, has an article in the March number of the Atlantic Monthly entitled "Hoover, the Man." This is one of a series of articles by Mr. Kellogg in that magazine on the National Food Administrator.
Mr. Kellogge is now in Washington D.C., doing war work, and is associated with Dean Olin Templin under the direction of George Creel chairman of the Committee on Public Information.
Owls will meet at 7:30 o'clock Wed
ednesday night at the Pi Upsion house
important Sour Owl and dance busin-
ss.
Don't wait—do it now! Buy War Savings Stamps!
Mr. Kellogg was abroad at the time the war started out and was associated with Herbert Hoover while the latter had charge of the Belgian relief. After America entered the war, he went to Washington and offered his services to the government, and has been there ever since.
Mr. Kellogg is an alumnus of the University taking his A. B. degree in 1889, and his A. M. degree in 1892.
Famous Paragraphear of Topeka Capital Will Talk on Newspaper Brevities
Jay House Will Speak At Dinner of Students Of Journalism, March 20
J. E. "Jay" House, the humorous writer of the Second Thought column of the Topeca Daily Capital and mayor of Topeka, will be the guest of honor at a dinner to be given by the Associated Journalists, the journalism society at the University, March 15-16, in the room of the Kansan of House will talk on interesting journalism brevities of the day.
Jay House, sometimes known as Dod Gaston for his witty sayings in his Second Thought column in the Capital, is also dramatic critic for the Capital and until he was elected mayor of the city, he wrote most of the local sport stories for the paper. His speciality for many summers was the breezy reviews of the daily battles of the Topeka baseball team. Since becoming mayor he has found time to write only his sayings in the Second Thought column and to review theatrical productions.
Jay House's short paragraphs are known and read in every part of the Middle West., Because of his interesting personality, Fred Rigby, president of the Associated Journalists, is especially pleased that he could persuade him to visit Lawrence.
No One Missed It
Until it Was Gone
Mr. Shea's Musical Prodigy Was Silent After Wind Got Through
And no one missed it until it was gone. The wind blew. But the whistle didn't when the wind got through. The old grim pipe that blasted out professors' last lingering thoughts and sent classes scurrying away for years and years of passing University generations no longer stood upright above the power house ready to be filled with résonant steam.
It lay prostrate on its side, supine on the roof of the famous place where the popular Mr. Shea makes coal into heat. And it couldn't gasp a sound. Mr. Shea didn't worry, she also said he have to," he said to himself. (Nobody heard him say it; quotes are more deductions from subsequent events.)
Long Meal at Varsity Club University Club Starts a Sublime Day-Then Remembers
He rose at half past six and he who tumbled out an hour and ten minutes later sat at the same breakfast table at the University Club this morning and had time to compare relatives merits of their watches while they put away the longest breakfast ever served in the history of the club.
All this afternoon vocal experts will hammer, hammer, hammer, and tinker, tinker, on Mr. Shea's musical prodigy. There is hope—at the powerhouse—that just before dawn really arrives tomorrow the atmosphere can be outraged. Sleepers will awake. Classes will begin on Monday and will end and on the interrogation point as of old. In fact it is promised that the irresponsibility prevalent on the Hill for two whole naughty days will be dispelled when Mr. Shea ties down the cord again and let's 'er go.
Everybody was in the sweetest mood possible. Crusty smiled at the Prophet and announced that the medicine the Prophet mixed for his cold was more successful every teapoonful. The Crab rang up the register twice for fruit and signalled for more desserts, soaked, soaked. All time must have endured. All clocks must be crazy. The whistle had not blown.
Then the Artist got an impression. He was afraid his class might not have the same feelings in regard to the hands on the various clocks around the Hill. "And they might not be there when I arrive," he said, looking over his glasses in a startled manner. His idea caused immediate reaction.
"Aw, why didn't that man Sheen tell that his peanut roaster was busted!" this from the Brick Old Top cookbook. "I didn't dare干死 finish his French toast."
And then there were curses, curses
curSES, all the way up the Hill.
Motion Pictures and Slides Depict Alaska
An entertaining and instructive lecture about Alaska as given by John P. Clum of California, at 4 o'clock this afternoon in Fraser Chapel.
The lecture was illustrated with colored lantern slides and moving pictures, and showed the marvelous development of Alaskan territory since it came into the possession of the United States and also the picturesque scenery of its southern and western slopes.
Plain Tales From The Hill
Margaret Young, selling tickets to the campus for the Follies; "Mr. Standley, don't you want some tickets to the Follies?"
Harold Standly: "Why, no—I'm going to be in them."
And away she went to make another sale.
It happened on Tennessee Street. One of the fellows was supposedly taking pictures for his "K" book. Various ones were called out on the front steps to pose. Just as the proverbial smile blossomed forth on their faces, a bucket of water descended upon the heads of the unsuspecting victims from the porch roof. They are still wringing water out of their ears.
Did-ju got yer pitcher took? The boys what is in th' 2 o'clock drill company did Monday. An' the wind, it just blowed an' blew, an' blewed their guns clean crooked, it did. An' their hats and creases of their trowsis was all blowed out of place, an' they didn't look nurture a-tall
Margaret Young: "Oh, I didn't know that. Ignorance is bliss, isn't it?"
An' then the 4 o'clock companies, it thought they would get its pitchers done tooked, an' they would be purty, cause they wasn't feared no wind. So the office, that them stands out in front or back behind, they wuz all up in their uniforms or new spring shirt, and you see how moistened their lips 'an' was watchin' fur the little birdie, but they didn't see it. No, not-a-tall.
An' the kernel waited, 'an' the captans, 'an' the corporals, 'an' the fellers waited too. An' the street-cars went by, one by one, an' no pitcher-man comed, an' they didn't get no pitcher made after all. An' they got-ta fuss up again all over for a nuther day.
Nominating Committee Selects Candidates
Nominees for Y. W. C. A. Cabinet Chosen Monday—Submitted at Meeting
The nominating committee of the Y. W. C. A. composed of the president, vice-president, general, secretary, and one representative of the association met at the home of Mrs. W. W. Johnson, president of the board of directors, who is a final five candidate for the cabinet. The following nominations were made;
for president, Evelyn Rohrabhau; vice-president, Meriam Merritt; secretary, Margaret Walker; treasurer, Joseph Christie; annual member, Eleanor Moore.
These nominations will be submitted today at the regular meeting and voted upon by the members of the association.
Four Students Strike
At Oread High School
Follies Cast Reduces Cost of Production By Making Costumes
You can't SPEND your money and SAVE it too! Buy War-Savings Stamps!
Because they deliberately cut classes, four Oread Training School students were told not to report to classes until they had explained their action to Prof. H. W. Nutt, and were reinstated by him.
The members of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity, who are in France gave a dance in Paris last Friday night. Josiah Williams a student in the University last year attended.
Chineland Ladies Are Stitching Up Kimonas; Spanish Chorus Gathering Bangles
New Scenic Effects Coming
2,000 Tickets Printed! Seat Sale Is in Charge of
Every costume in the 1918 edition of the K. U. Follies, to be given Thursday night in Robinson Gymnastics is being made by the "actor" or "actress" who will wear the costume, Students in the Follies this year have taken their material to a Y. W. C. A. committee to have it cut out. Each individual then takes the cut out costume and does all of the sewing.
This is only one of the many bits of ingenuity being displayed by the cast in the production and by the manager and director, Blanche Simons. Not only will the costuming in them be complete in every detail, but some of the eclectic investees have been secured for the festive this season.
Fortunately, few of the characters appear in more than one scene, or the problem of making costumes for the various scenes would be a hard one. Chinese costumes will be the order, of course, in the Chinatown number, which is to depict a typical scene with a bank of wisteria, chrysanthemum with blossoms in the background. New materials and a hysterical lighting effect are to be used to give the proper atmosphere to this scene.
Spanish costumes will be used for the "San Domingo" chorus, while a knitting song requires summer girl costuming for the chorus. Pink and white frocks will be used in the color scheme for the song "Love's Lullaby." In the patriotic climax act at the end of the show military capes and cans will add a military note to the scene. Two thousand tickets have been printed and Manager Simons said that the sale is booming. Tickets are selling for 25 cents each, and there are no reserved seats.
K. U. Students Given Chance to Purchase Annuals From Booths
Beauty Contestants Will Have Charge of Jayhawker Sale This Week
In order that every student may be given an opportunity to buy a copy of the 1918 Jayhawker, selling stations will be maintained in twelve of buildings during the last three school days of this week. Stations were drawn by lot this morning, and each of the fourteen candidates in the "Our Kansas Girls" contest was assigned to a place. Tables will be arranged at each station and appropriate signs posted.
As there are fourteen contestants, and only twelve stations, two candidates will be unassigned daily. They are to work at will over the campus. A list of the candidates is printed herewith, together with their stations. By consulting this chart, students will be able to Hooverize on shoe leather when they set out to seek "the girl" in order to buy a Jayhawk.
"We expect many Jayhawkers to be sold during the last few days of this final week of the campaign," said Don Davis, manager of the annual, this noon. "Everyone who has been putting off buying until now realizes, I think, why it is that we can have no extra copies printed; and, consequently, I believe the great majority of people who really want annuials will order them before the contest closes. It's a 'chin they'll get left if they don't.' The annual management absolutely cannot take any chances on printing more books than are ordered during this campaign."
Hester Jackson was again in the lead when the votes were counted this noon, with Earline Allen second by a scant 100 votes. Josephine Huoni had climbed from sixth to third, and Hazel Cook had dropped to fourth place. The other contestants, in the order of their standing, are: Eileen VanZandt, Louise Logan, Marie Buchanan, Myrte Steen, Laurie Lynn, Jessy Wayty, Rhea Diveley, Dorothy Wiggins, Frances Adams, and Jessie Buck.