UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOLUME XV.
Hazel Cook Now Leads In "Our Kansas Girl" Contest by 100 Votes
NUMBER 104
Many Students Buying Books As They Realize it is War Annual
Contest to Close March 16
Rules Were Given Out by "Jay hawker" Editors to Remove Misunderstanding
Hazel Cook nosed out Earline Alen by a scant 100 votes in the second lap of the "Our Kansas Girls" contest Wednesday. Third is Hester Jackson who passed both Jessie Wyatt and Eliseen Van Zandt. The remaining candidates, in the order of their standing, are: Myrtle Steen, Louise Logan, Laurine Lynn, Rhea Dively, Genevieve West, Marie Buchanan, Doris Patterson, Dorothy Wiggins, Frances Adams, Ilia Clark, Josephine Huoni, Jessie Buck, and Fink Skaer.
"One thing about the contest should be emphasized," said Harry Morgan this morning, "and that is that prospective purchasers will have no opportunity to buy an annual after the contest is over. When the contest closes a week from Saturday, we shall know just how many books are wanted by the student body; the exact number that have been ordered will be printed. There will be no extra copies. It is essential that everyone who wants a book should buy it before this contest closes.
REALIZE IT IS WAR ANNUAL
"The fact that it is a war annual, unique and different from anything ever published at K. U., and that it is probably the last elaborate annual that will be published here for many years, is leading many people to buy who would not ordinarily do so. Sophomores, and even freshmen, as well as juniors and seniors, seem to realize that this is their last chance to get a really keen K. U. annual."
To remove any misunderstanding regarding the rules governing the contest, which had existed only in traditional form, the following set of rules was announced this morning by the management of the contest and the judges. One feature is different from past contests: money paid for advertising will not be counted for votes. Advertisers objected to being solicited by numerous contestants for their votes and it was found necessary that the officials offered the votes that have been cast thus far are for subscriptions and for organization senior, junior, or sophomore space.
GIVES RULES OF CONTEST
THE QUEEN STATES OF TOWN
THE MAYORS governing the contest
follow:
1. Contest closes at 6 p. m., Saturday, March 16.
2. One vote will be given for each cent paid for a subscription to the "Jayhawk."
4. Cash paid for advertising will not be considered in giving votes.
3. One vote will be given for each cent paid for organization, senior, junior, and sophomore dues, paid in cash for spacn in the book.
5. Any woman in the University may be entered in the contest, by the casting of a ballot bearing her name, prior to 6 p. m. Wednesday, March
6. Keys to the ballot box are kept by one of the ten judges and the judges make the daily and the final counts.
7. Announcement of the standing of the contestants will be made every morning during the contest.
8. Ballot boxes are placed near the Jayhawker bulletin board, at the east entrance to the campus. Jayhawker office in the Daily Kansan news room.
Professor Patterson To Talk
Professor Patterson To Talk
The American Army in France",
will be the subject of a lecture to
be given Friday night before the University
Club, by Prof. D. L. Patterson.
He will illustrate his lecture with lantern
slides which he brought back with him and which were the first to be brought to this country. This is the second of four lectures given at the University Club. Senior Molina gave the first two weeks ago.
Teams in the intra-mural basketball tournament should practice Friday afternoon if they have not done any work for the coming games next week.
Send the Daily Kansan Home.
Faculty Men Approve Opening of Workroom
The workroom the Woman Student's Welfare League has installed at Westminster Hall for sewing and pressing will be open to women of the University on Saturday's from nine o'clock on.
If any one has a sewing machine not in use it will be gladly received as a loan by the organization according to the statement of Edna Burch, director of the movement. She may be cotified by phoning 240.
"That certainly appeals to me," said one of the University faculty yesterday, when he learned of the room for pressing and mending. "I wish the men would start something of the kind and save seventy-five cents per. That is my idea of honest-to-goodness war conservation."
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The War Here and Over There
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS, THURSDAY AFTERNOON, MARCH 7, 1918.
WAR THOUGHT FOR TODAY
It is said they tried to form a chapter of the Daughters of the Revolution in Russia the other day, but couldn't decide which revolution—Topeka State Journal.
American troops in France are now holding eight miles of trenches.
Secretary Daniels has ordered a five-mile "dry" zone around all naval camps.
The disorder in Ireland continues, Sinn Feiners having seized the town of Kiltimagh.
A dollar will buy just half as much food now in Washington as it would ten years ago.
The government has placed restrictions on the manufacture of "near" and temperance beer.
Up to the end of last week, $2,798,
409.50 worth of Thrift and War Savings
stamps had been sold in Kansas
The War Department announces that about 800,000 men will be called in the second draft, in 1918, but that no new divisions will be formed.
Victor L. Berger, Socialist candidate for United States senator from Wisconsin, has announced his platform, which is intensely pro-German.
After an all-night session, the state assembly of Wisconsin adopted a resolution yesterday condemning the course of Senator R. M. LaFollette.
The House of Representatives has passed a resolution asking Postmaster Burleson to explain the poor mail service given the troops in France.
Nikolai Lenine, the Bolshevik prime minister, is working for Germany in her efforts to subjugate Russia, according to authoritative information received at Washington. The Bolsheviki are beginning to move the government offices from Petrograd to Moscow.
The British Admiralty announces the torpedoing of the armed liner Calgarian off the Irish coast. Forty-eight men out of a passenger list of 610 persons were lost.
John E. Redmond, Irish Nationalist leader in Parliament, died yesterday morning in London. He had been in Parliament for thirty-seven years, and led the fight for home rule in Ireland.
Illustrated Lecture
In Fraser Tomorrow
A former private in the French army has been arrested in Washington on the charge of having defrauded the French government of several million dollars through war contracts.
"America First and First Americans," is the subject of an illustrated lecture to be given by Dr. C. D. Williamson in Fraser Chapel at 4 o'clock, Friday afternoon. Doctor Williamson has an extraordinary collection of stereoptic slides of scenes among the primitive Hopi and Navajo dwellers, and of the old city of Santa Fe. He has lectured at K. U. several times and has always shown excellent pictures.
Rumania has signed a treaty of peace with the Central Powers, agreeing to give up the province of Dobrudja and to help transport Teutonic troops to Odessa.
Professor Kendrie Will Lead Orchestra In Concert Friday
Conductor a Former Member of the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra
The annual concert of the University Orchestra which is to be given Friday night in Fraser Hall, will be under the direction of Prof. Frank E Kendrie of the School of Fine Arts. Professor Kendrie came to K. U. last fall and has instructed in violin during the year. He taught in Valpari-
PROF. FRANK E. KENDRIE
aiso University, Valparaiso, Ind. four years before coming to Law rence.
Professor Kendrie was formerly a violinist with the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra. He received his A. B. degree at Bowdoin University and his bachelor's degree was a pupil of Martin Loehler, well-known teacher and composer.
The orchestra this year includes twenty-eight players. Mrs. Evelyn Olcott, mezzo-soprano; W. B. Dalton, cellist; and Ednah Hopkins, violinist, will attend the concert on Saturday tickets or 35 tickets will be accepted for admission.
Kansas-Colorado Debate Comes Off in Green Hall
Negative Team Leaves Tonight to Speak at University of Oklahoma
The negative team composed of Herman Hangen, E. G. Smith and William Wilson, leaves for Norman, Okla., tonight. This team will debate with Oklahoma at the time the debate is being held here.
The debate between Kansas and Colorado, which was announced to be held in Fraser Hall, will be in the Little Theater, Green Hall, Friday night at 8 o'clock. This change was made necessary because of a conflict of dates with the University Orchestra. More chairs will be moved into the theater to make room for 225 persons.
"We expect to have the room in Green Hall filled to its capacity Friday night," said Coach H. T. Hill, this morning. "The question is interesting and the debate will be live from start to finish. Student tickets or twenty-five cents will admit to the contest."
This rule is effective for work done after September, 1918 in the School of Medicine.
At a meeting of the faculty of the School of Medicine Tuesday, the following resolutions regarding grades and eligibility for degrees were passed:
First: A student in order to be accepted for the degree of Bachelor of Science or Law, B. in medicine must complete a two year course at A. B, or C in at least ninety hours.
Second: A student in order to be accepted for the degree of Doctor of Medicine must have received the grade of A, B, or C in at least three-fourths of the hours required for graduation.
Medic Faculty Settles New Grading Question
Quill Club will meet tonight in the Rest Room of Fraser Hall to hear a talk by Willard Wattles. All mem. and pledges are requested to attend.
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Awful Wild Circus Scored Hit Last Night With Large Audience
Rhea Dively, Hula Dancer, Sec and Only to Snake Charmer, Irene Tichen
The Wild and Awful Circus given by the A's last night in Robinson Gymnasium came up to its advertising and, in some respects, it even passed the expectations of the ringmaster himself, especially when the mysterious, blond-haired snake a charmer, Irene Tiepen, appeared with a live, four-fect long snake. It came from the Museum. The snake seemed to be charmed too, by screams of the crowd and by its would-be mistress herself.
Hazel Pratt and Miriam Jones dressed in clown costumes put on a dance. Rhea Dively, the Hula舞师, almost surprised some of the artists who have been trained in the accomplishment in the "Old Country."
The talented band intercepted all the popular selections as well as the Crimson and the Blue. Bertha Mika performed so admirably on the parallel bars and trappe that no one of the spectators could have guessed that she was suffering at the time of her performance. Seph and Lucene Spencer dressed as Japanese maidens gave a charming exposition of tight-rope walking:
Every interesting feature followed me another in a close succession. All the performers were on hand and did excellent work. The managers as well as their assistants deserve a great deal of credit for their work in putting on the clever and entertaining performance.
Former K. U. Star Wins Events in Army Camp
Ernest Stateler Now at Camp Green, N. C., With Ordnance Division
nance Division
E. S. Stateler, c'17, First Provisional Co., American Ordinance, Base Division, and former K. U. two-miler writes from Camp Green, N. C.:
"We had a holiday today in commemoration of Washington's Birthday. The morning was spent in baseball games and the afternoon in the first raising of our Regimental flag with informal ceremonies and in a regimental trackmeet. Of course I could not stay out of it, although the longest race was a 220 yard dash, which I won in 25 seconds.
"All racing and other competing was done in service uniform on the uneven drill grounds. Our company won its ball game this morning by 2 and the track meet by a score of 32 to the 11 of our nearest rivals.
Christian Endeavor Union
Will Give Mixer Friday
"The squad of which I am the acting corporal was the prize winning squad of the regiment, being responsible for ten of our total thirty-two. Our platoon is thinking of challenging another platoon in the regiment to a track meet. In our platoon is the captain of the M. U. track team for the national championship; friends in an athletic sens when we landed here; but now we have never let an opportunity pass by to show the men around what M. U. and K. U. can do for men in an athletic manner as well as otherwise. This fellow is an acting corporal, also, and is enlisted as a storekeeper."
"Opportunity will be had to meet other young people of the University and of Lawrence, and many special features are planned. This mixer is one of several meetings that the Christian Endeavor Union is holding this week, in a special celebration. In days with no union service but with meetings among the individual societies."
"All University students and faculty members interested in young people's work are invited to the union mixer the Lawrence Christian Endeaver Union is holding Friday night at 8 o'clock at the Baptist Church," said Alfred Graves, c21, president of the union, this morning. "Good entertainment will provide a royal time for everyone."
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W. C. Stevens Returns But Continues Research
Prof. W. C. Stevens has returned from New York where he has been doing research work for the Raw Products Committee of the National Research Council.
This committee has been making a survey of resources that may be available for food, textile and drug purposes. It is the general opinion of the committee that the war lasts much longer substitutes for the materials now commonly used will have to be provided.
Plain Tales From The Hill
They were discussing Phi Beta Kappa.
He: 'I don't think it's much to be a Phi Beta Kappa. A lot of the students wearing those door keys are many more brains than the rest of us."
She: "Oh, why those are Kappa Kappa Gammas."
"SIMPLY WILD. OVER ME."
It is not true that the venerable and beloved dean of the School of Law is to be Queen of the May this year. Likewise it is a canard that the dignified and respected chancellor will lead the chorus of the 1918 K. U. Follies. But anything like this may be expected to happen henceforth.
Seated in the owner's and driver's seat of the flossiest, the latest, the nifftest, the most freshlymanned designed chummy roadster with sophomoric trimming, there was the other day none other than Dr. R. A. Schwegler. Of course, there is no reason why the estimable doctor shouldn't drive a car, and a good one, but why in the name of all centrally and peripherally aroused sensations should it be a chummy roadster?
A Sig Alph and his freshman date were strolling on the campus.
"Oh," sympathized the freshman maid. "And do you get gym credit for it?"
"Don't you know," said the Sig Alph, "I've got to do guard duty every night. March around our house for an hour at a time."
Green Hall Theater would not hold all of the French-speaking students who came to hear Dr. Charles Cestre Wednesday afternoon. The crowd and speaker moved on masse to Fraser Hall. When they got there, they found that the water for the speaker's refreshment had been left behind.
Two students were sent back to Green Hall to get it. They returned in a few minutes, weighted with the burden of one glass of water.
A member of the public speaking department faculty caused quite a bit of excitement among certain of the women at a boarding club at noon one day this week. He called to see one of the women to arrange an hour for the rehearsal of a play. A man member of the club answered the bell and called the young lady. Another woman in the club, however, was at the head of the stairs and saw the young man but not the faculty member.
The wanted woman responded to the call, laughing. The faculty member? Yes, it was Professor MacMurray.
"Oh, girlie, your husband wants you," this woman called out.
"Did you know Tilly and Cllen were married and have been since August 20?"
"Now faint!—I Helen Forbes." This is a note Helen Forbes sent down the line in a class. A horrid man laid his hands on it; so here it is.
Journalism Student Buys Home Town Paper
Donald Joslin, e-cap, has recently purchased half interest in his hometown newspaper, the Hugoton Hermes. While remaining at the University, Joslin will send some articles across the state to his paper, Hugoton being in Stevens County, in the extreme southwest corner of Kansas.
The Hermes is a weekly newspaper, the only one in the county. Joslin is taking special work this semester in the department of journalism in preparation to taking over active editorial control in the summer. This is his second year in the University. He does not expect to return to K. U. next year.
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Peace With Germany Of Today Impossible Declares Dr. Cestre
German Greed for Wealth and Power Forced France Into War
War Is German Industry
Teutonic Patriotism is Only a Fanatic Desire for Supremacy
Dr. Charles Certe, exchange professor at Harvard from the University of Paris, who spoke yesterday afternoon in Fraser Chapel, told from the French point of view, why we are in war.
"To understand the war," he said, "we must understand our enemy, their instincts and their ideals, which are as different from French idols as possible. It is because the Germans have no conception of limit—for their own power and their own wealth—and because they have retained their early primitive instincts of ferocity, that we are obliged to fight this war. France did not want war, and even yielded a province in the Congo to Germany to keep peace, until that dark menace of German frightfulness became a reality and she was obliged to defend herself. For just as the barbarians destroyed the civilization of Rome, their descendants are threatening all of the forces of the civilized world today."
PROSPEROUS BEFORE WAR
Dr. Crestre called attention to the fact before the war that Germany enjoyed the prestige of being the most prosperous and the richest country in the world, both commercially and industrially, and had she been able to control her greedy desire for-more wealth and more territory, she might have retained that high importance. Whereas patriotism should embrace a love of country and a respect for others, Germany triumph is a sort of fantastic desire for the supremacy of Germany "uber alles."
GERMANY TURNS ALL TO WAR
GERMANY TURNS ALL TO WAR "War," Dr. Crest went on to explain, "is the industry of Germany. She has turned every quality which she possessed, artistic, scientific and practical into the business of making war, for which she has been preparing for the last forty-five years. It is her men of letters since the time of Fichte who have incited this ideal, and helped to bring about the present situation.
"Since we, France, and now you, america, are fighting for the rights f small but glorious nations, for individualism and freedom. we can not peak of peace with Germany of today, in which the individual does exist, and freedom is unknown."
Germans Have no Sense of Proportion—Cestre Americans Who Have Studied in Germany Should go to French Universities
"I hope the stream of people here in the United States who have been going to German universities to study will swing around to its proper and right channel," said Prof. Charles Crestre in his talk in English on French universities given in Fraser Chapel, Wednesday afternoon.
"German scholarship," he continued "is admirable so far as it falls under the category of scientific investigation. It is not admirable, however, in units. Mommsen, the German's greatest historian, is a hater of the French."
"The Germans have lost their sense of proportion. They argue that they believe in self-determination. They believe in large determination for the large nations only."
"Humanism has always been the goal of France. The spirit of French history is remarkable. Lavise gave all that was due to the rulers of Germany. He could not admire the taking of Silesta, the theft of Poland, and the breaking of treaties. There is a width in his writings."
The mathematics club will meet Monday afternoon at 3 o'clock, Room 103, Administration Building. Miss Frances Adams will speak on Zeno's paradoxes.
Kappa Phi banquet tickets may be secured at Myra Hall Friday from 1 to 2 o'clock and Saturday from 1 to 3 o'clock.