UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOLUME XV.
NUMBER 103
Lytle Wins $50 Prize In Dramatic Club's Annual Play Contest
"Fifty-Fifty" Winning Play Depicts Humorous Side of College Life
To Hold Try-outs Monday
Lucie Nowlin Receives Honorable Mention in Contest—Present Play in April
First place in the senior play contest was awarded to Harold Lytle for his three act, comedy play, "Fifty-Fifty." Four plays were submitted to the judges. Lucile Nowlin received honorable mention for her play, "Business as Unusual." The first prize was $50.
The committing deciding the contest was made up of faculty members and students. They were Prof. Arthur MacMurray, Wardill Watts, Robert Robertson, Helen Clark and Lucile Means.
TRY-OUTS MONDAY NIGHT
Try-outs for the cast, open to all seniors, will be held in Green Hall, Monday night at 7:30 o'clock. There are fourteen members of the cast, six women and eight men.
"In order to get the cast workin, on the play immediately it wa thought best to hold try-outs as soo as possible," said Robert Robertson manager of the play, this morning "The tryouts Monday night may conflict with the fraternity and sorority meetings of some of the candidates, but all are urged to come then even if they must be late.
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS, WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, MARCH 6, 1918.
The senior class plans to preser the play some time in April.
PLAY OF COLLEGE LIFE
"PLAY OF COLLEGE LIFE
The play will uphold the all the trainee activities in mathematics. It deals with college life in a first-class comedy manner."
Words of Sage Apply To Follies' Featur
Once There Was a Sage Who Gave a Simp Some Advice. The Advice ran Thusly: "Paddle Your Own Canoe."
Used as a Text for Hundreds of Lectures On Success, "Paddle Your Own Canoe" has since become a B-yword in Every Home. Father tells it to Mother When She Ansks Him to bring in the Wood. Mother tells it to Father When He Ansks Her to help Him Weed the Garden. Sister tells it to Mother and Brother tells it to Sister; and Benevolent Employers Have Been Known to Hand It Out to Awe-Struck Employees. It's Darned Good Advice.
But All This Is Neither Here nor There. The Point is that "Paddle Your Own Cance" is the Name of a Screaming (that's the Press Agent's Word) One-Act Face which is to be given (for a Consideration) at the K. U. Follies Next Week. There is a Cast in the Show, and Everything. As a Matter of Fact, the Cast is Composed of Members of Phi Alpha Tau (which is a Honorary Dramatic Fraternity) and Three of their Beautiful Young Lady Friends. Here They Are—Ten of Them—Count 'Em!
Misses Eva Hangen, Helen Cook,
and Rhea Diveley, and Harold Lytle,
Craig Kemmerer and Robert Kemper.
Brown, Burney Miller, Karl Brown,
and Gene Carter.
They're All Regular Actor Folks,
These People Are, and They Say
they'll have Some Show. Craig
kennelly (remember the Bally English-
man with the Eyeglass in "The Check-
mate?" That's Craig)—Craig is go-
ing to Direct the Show, and He Says
that the Cast is a Peach.
Anyway, Those Phi Alpha Tau Failers are Going to Give the Show—and the Press Agent says it will be Good. The agents will until a Week From Thursday to See.
Tests Electricity Plant
Prof. G, C. Shaad, dean of the School of Engineering returned Tuesday from a trip to Anthony where he made an acceptance test for an engine that is being installed by the municipal electricity plant.
Chemical Engineers Meet
Chemical Engineer
Dr. F. B. Brown of the department of Chemistry will address the Chemical Engineers at their weekly meeting this evening at 7:30 o'clock. The subject of his lecture will be "The Chemistry Library."
Concert by Women's Glee Club a Success
The green curtains on the stage at the F. A. U. Hall drew aside and revealed the K. U. Women's Glee Club arrayed in pretty dresses and smiles for the audience. In return the audience wondered if this concert would be exactly like every other glee club concert it had heard in all its experiences and unexpected—exactly, too. It wasn't. There was real music, as promised. But there were other things—a musical reading by Elaine Wharton, a little sketch well done, some more music of good quality and at the end a noisy jazzy rattle band. Roeattie Rowe and the band were in her hat, was the band leader. Marie Buchanan rendered a solo on her music 'cello.'
The War Here and Over There
WAR THOUGHT FOR TODAY
Thanks to the war, the newspapers can describe it as a military wedding now without making everyone mad.—Elbert Severance.
The Allies have practically agreed to give Japan a free hand to intervene in Siberia.
The American forces in France require 25,000 more pieces of heavy artillery.
Twenty-six Austrian officers and men were killed by an avalanche in the Alps.
A shortage of torpedoes in Germany is said to be restricting the operations of her submarines.
President Wilson has appointed over the docks of two German steamship companies at Hoboken, N. J.
No American soldiers of German or Austrian birth will be permitted to go to France.
Armour and Company report a decrease of twenty-five per cent in the consumption of meat, due to meatless lays.
President iWilson has appointed Bernard M. Baruch as head of the War Industries Board and has increased the powers of the board.
The War Department has announced that the United States will sue a new badge of honor for bounds received in action.
Several army camps report the need of guide books for use among the soldiers going to France. Any kind of guide book it is said is acceptable if it contains information about France, Italy, England or even Germany.
Mrs. Olcott Will Sing
At Orchestra Concert
Violin and Cello Numbers Wil Be on Program Friday Night in Fraser
Mrs. Evelyn Oclett, Mezzo-soprano,
will sing at the University Orchestra
Concert Friday night in Fraser Hall.
She will sing three French songs:
"Connais tu le pays" from "Mignon",
by Thomas; "Kypris" by Augusta
Holmes; "Vive Amour," from "Cher"
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Others who will have solo numbers on Friday's program are: Ednah Hopkins, fa'18, violinist, who will play Skrenden's Romance, accompanied by the string section of the orchestra. Play Schuhmann's Traumtier, also accompanied by the string instruments.
Marion Grey came from Philadelphia Pennsylvania yesterday for an extended visit at the Gamma Phi Beta house and with other friends.
MRS. EVELYN OLCOTT
ubin," by Massenet, Miss Harriet Grossinger will be the accompanist.
Earline Allen Ahead At End of First Day Of Jayhawker Contest
Total of 23,900 Votes Cast for Nineteen Candidates in Race Nextday
Yesterday
The first lap of the "Our Kansas Girls" Contest ended last night with Earline Allen, c'20, in the lead, Jessie Wyatt, is a close second, and Eileen Van Zandt, third. The remainder of the candidates are slightly behind the leaders, one candidate having yet obtained a big lead. A total of 23,900 votes were cast yesterday.
The standing of the contestants, as announced this morning is, : Earline Allen, Jessie Wyatt, Eileen Van Zandt, Hazel Cook, Hester Jackson, Louise Rogue, Marie Buchanan, Jessie Buck, Laurine Lynn, Myrtle Steen, Rhea Diveley, Dorey Patterson, Josephine Huoni, Dorothy Wiggins, Fren Skaer, Genevieve West, Helen Govier, Lila Clark, and Frances Adams.
"Photographs of all candidates are also wanted, for display which will be placed in the Jayhawker bulletin board Friday morning. Most of the candidates who have taken their photographs; but those who have not should do so at once."
Thirty-eight solicitors are now in the field, working for themselves or for friends, and the subscription list of the Jayhawker grows every hour. "We need more solicitors, however," said Harry Morgan, editor of the Jayhawker, "and those candidates or friends of candidates who want to solicit for subscriptions and votes should see Manager Don Davis in the Jayhawker office at once, and get subscription books.
Two ballot boxes are placed on the campus for the receipt of voting coupons. One is stationed at the Jayhawker bulletin board, opposite the University bulletin board, and the other is on the manager's desk in the Jayhawker office in the news room of the Daily Kansan building. Jayhawker office hours are from 10 to 11 a.m. and from 2 to 4 p.m.
Here, Girls, is a Way To Help Carry on
"I wish I was a Red Cross nurse, or an ambulance driver or something so I could help some more in relief from incarcerations K. U. woman to a friend.
"You don't have to have four years' training as a nurse, or know a thing about automobiles to do a lot to help you get right here now," relied her friend.
"Well, what are you going to do with those old rubbers you can't use, with talcum powder cans, and cold cream jars you will throw away? Why don't you suggest to your men friends to save for you the tin-foil wrappings of cigarette packages? You have heard about this salvage plan but you haven't taken it to hear. He's a good job as stonger than you and you don't have to have any training for it. You know the things the committee on the salvage work wants, get them and turn them in."
"Go ahead with your impossible plan," said the first girl.
"These collections are to be sold, and the money used for buying supplies for the surgical dressing classes of the Red Cross on the Hill, and since you live in Kansas City, you can further help by taking small quantities of the salvage to the Red Cross headquarters there. Call Lucene Spencer, chairman of the committee on salvage. No. 99 and she will give you any further information."
"How will that help relief work?" was the puzzled inquiry.
Mr. J. H. A. Beauparlant, former instructor in the English High School at Boston, has arrived at the University to take the place of Mr. Henri Taillair, formerly of the French department, who was called to Ohio State University at the beginning of last semester.
French Vacancy Filled By Boston Instructor
Mr. Beauparlant comes well recommended for his position as he is a graduate of St. Hyacinthe and has his Diploma Superior of the Alliance Francais Paris.
Jumbo the Elephant And Jumping Fleas Here for W.A.A. Circus
Ten private cars containing wild animals, direct from the jungles, and the new and up-to-date apparatus of the great indoor circus which will show in Robinson (Gymnastics) Performance will begin exactly at 7 o'clock.
Maymie the Fat Girl and a Thousand Thrills Are Waiting, They Say
After a satisfactory rehearsal this afternoon the management wishes to announce that the performance tonight is expected to outclass all former exhibitions. Professor Max de Montelle, who will contend for the leaping championship of the world, has recovered from his recent illness and promises to break all former records.
A new and high class entertainment with funny clowns, daring leapers, expert gymnasts, fearless wire walkers, performers of high performance exactly as advertised.
See the free attractions on the show grounds. General admission twenty-five cents.
Kansas Debaters Work Out Points for Rebuttal In Friday's Contest
"Capable of Meeting Best Op ponents Can Present," Says Coach H. T. Hill
The debating teams have their speeches worked into shape for the triangular debate Friday night, and are now working out the rebuttal points.
"The teams this year are capable of meeting the best our opponents can put out," said Prof. H. T. Hill, who is coaching the teams. "Although only one veteran debater is back, the new debaters have gone deep into the question and the teams are up to the usual high standard of Kansas debating teams."
On the affirmative team that will meet Colorado here, Robert Albach is the first speaker. Albach had two years' experience on the Lawrence high school team and has done much work in the public speaking departments in his three years in the University. Marjorie Bean, the second speaker, holds the honor of being the first woman in the Missouri Valley to be on an inter-college debating team. She has had previous debating experience in high school and at the University of Washington.
Edward Mason, who speaks last for the affirmative also was on Lawrence high school debating teams. Mason has been active in debating work in the K. U. Debating Society, and was last授课 last semester in the debating class.
The negative team that goes to Oklahoma has the only man experienced in inter-collegiate debates. This is William H. Wilson, who took part in the Kansas-Nebraska debate last year and be the last speaker for the negative.
The first speaker on the negative is Herman Hangen. Hangen has had high school debating experience and has been prominent in dramatic work in the University, E. G. Smith the second speaker, is a senior in the University of Wisconsin law degree of law makes him a valuable member of the team in this question.
The debate here will be held in Fraser Hall March 8, at 8 o'clock. Charles Thompson, of the Civil Service Commission in Kansas City, and R. H. Emnis, a Kansas City business school graduate, has not yet been announced. Student tickets or twenty-five cents admits to the debate.
Baby Number Four
To Journalism Faculty
A daughter was born to Mr. and Mrs. Ross Clayton this morning at Simmons Hospital. Mr. Clayton is secretary of the department of journalism and the first baby in his family breaks the jixi that has existed in the baby number in the department faculty. The other five members of the faculty have thirteen children, eleven boys and two girls. Mrs. Clayton and daughter are doing nicely, the attending physician said.
Professor Davis to Talk On Diplomacy of the War
Prof. W. W. Davis of the department of history will address the Women's Forum on Diplomacy of the War at 3 o'clock Thursday afternoon in Room 110 Fraser Hall. This is one of a series of lectures in regard to the war which are being given to the war by our own professors.
The Forum has made arrangements for weekly periodicals to be placed in the Women's Rest Room regularly for use by all women.
Plain Tales From The Hill
It was an oral quiz in economics.
Professor Ise: "Is it true, Miss Rising, that the Federal Reserve Notes are also elastic, as Shofstall said?"
The most unpopular job around a fraternity or sorority house is that of steward. It gets more knocks than all the other offices put together, according to those most vitally interested in the knocks, namely, those who are knocked.
Miss Rising: "Why, Professor Ise, I was just going to ask you about that."
Sir steward beat it away from the house, "it" referring to the instrument of infliction, and did not return until the threatening brother departed. He fooled the crowd, but warnings he has received indicate that there will be more to this tale later.
Professor of sociology: "Our parents used to have to sneak off to read a novel or a love story, but now we can give our child a nickel, and he will go and see a more thrilling love story in motion pictures, with a lot of other people."
The steward at the Kanza house one day got the drift of a little political talk that on Saturday he would get his, if the meal was not up to specified requirements, "his" not being served. The menu clearly clear for the steward. Saturday came, and the steward prepared the menu to suit himself.
Concealed voice in the back row "Show us the theater."
The salvage box in Fraser Hall is swelling in content. Some University women are so anxious to add their bit to the conglomeration of articles salvaged, that they are buying candy wrapped in tin foil and are dropping the wrappings in the box.
the members of the University;
faculty interested in Swedish have received their annual consignment to boxes of snuff. This is but a part of a nation-wide propaganda in which a company sends samples of the sneezey tobacco to instructors in Swedish at universities, American colleges and universities.
Pressing Engagements
At Westminster Hall
Snuff may be thought to be necessary to speaking the Scandinavian tongue, but students in the classes hope it is not included in their curriculum.
With spring and marbles for the small boy a fever creeps into the system of the women of the University and hunting out thimbles and needles, they prepare to sew. Knowing this phenomenon to be one of annual recurrence, the Woman's Student Welfare League has provided for it.
Edna Burch, with her assistants,
and several women of the faculty,
have completed preparations for a
sewing room, fitted up with electric
irons and other convenient paraphernalia which will solve mending, sewing, pressing, and other clothes problems easily.
The arrangements are for something more permanent than the spring fever for sewing. The Woman's Student Welfare League is an organization which has developed a system W. C. A. Social Service Committee.
This sewing room is in Westminster Hall. In connection with it there is a store room. The W. S. W. L. is a new activity on the hill but it is one which goes on record as a regular catalogued student organization.
Spoke on French Newspapers Prof. D. L. Patterson, of the department of history, spoke before a class in the department of journalism today on "The Personal Element in French Newspapers."
Send the Daily Kansan Home.
No University Credit For Work Substituted For Military Service
Senate Awaits Federal Call for Farm Labor, Before Taking Action
High Schools Accommodated
Students May Have Freshman Standing if Work is Properly Accredited
Until there is a general call issued by the government for men to work on the farms of Kansas, the University of Kansas will not grant full academic credit to students who withdraw from school for agricultural work. Indications are that if such an urgent call is issued, the school authorities will grant the credit as was the case last year.
Action to this effect was taken at the meeting of the University Senate yesterday afternoon. Men will be granted credit if they are actual students or government service services the country in keeping with a resolution passed last fall.
MUST ENTER ACTUAL SERVICE
The resolution passed yesterday is: "That it is the sense of the Senate that full credit should be granted only to such students as enter into actual military or naval service of the United States, and that the Senate does not consider it expedient at the present time to grant credit for substitute work."
Members of the Senate understood that substitute work meant any sort of work which was handled by University men in place of the men who had gone into the service. The same ruling was enforced last year when K. U. men were given credit when they had done their occupations who had gone into the service and left their positions vacant.
CREDIT K. C. HIGH STUDENTS Students from the Kansas City, Missouri, high schools will be admitted to the University of Kansas if they leave school before the regular graduating time providing that have the approval of the high school from which they graduated. A resolution to this effect was adopted by a committee today after the Senate had given it power to act.
This was done at the request of the Kansas City high schools which asked both the University of Kansas and the University of Missouri to allow graduation from their class to enter the freshman class although they had left school in April and May with the permission of the schools to do farm work.
No Salary for Faculty On Leave of Absence
Dean Olin Templin and Prof. W.
C. Stevens in Government
Service at Washington
Crestre's Later Speech In English, 5:15 p. m.
On account of the large number of persons in the state institutions desiring leave of absences, the Board of Administration has found it necessary to change its order of leave of absence with salary for Dean Olin Templin of the College and Prof. W. C. Stevenson of the department of biology to leave of absence without salary.
professor Stevens will return to he University within a few days and to as much of his research work for he Government Raw Products Commission as is possible to do here. It is likely that Dean Templin will remain at Washington to work with the Food Administration under Herbert Hoover.
Professor Cestre who lectures in French this afternoon will give a subsequent speech in the Little Theater, Green Hall, in English at 5:15 o'clock. The later speech will be in extension of what he has to say in French.
Quill Club will meet Thursday evening at 8:15 o'clock in the Rest Room in Fraser Hall.
The regular weekly meeting of the German Verein will be held Thursday, at 3 p.m., in Fraser Hall, Room 313. The program will be furnished by the students.