UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOLUME XV.
Home Economics Work Commended as Vocation By Alumnae Committee
NUMBER 102
Textile Field is Expanding
Demonstration Agents Recognized as Necessary Adjunct Of Modern Life
Work in Home Economics is recommended as offering many opportunities for college women, according to the report of the vocational guidance of the Kansas branch of the Association of College graduate Alumnes.
Just now, the camps and hospital are particularly anxious to obtain the services of trained and expert dietitians. Women interested in home economics are advised to consider this special branch seriously, as there promises to be an ever-increasing demand for such work in the future.
Demonstration agents, too, are coming to be recognized as necessary adjuncts of our modern life. This work is done under government control, and is done only where the individuals concerned express a desire to have it done. It consists of teaching individual home-keepers the hygienic preparation of food and scientific management of the home. This branch of the work offers more attention just at the present. The last however, requires more special training.
Social service work under the auspices of the United Charities, is also recommended. In this work the demonstrator goes into the poorer homes, particularly the tenements of the larger cities, and gives the same instruction that the demonstration agent does.
Work that involves the knowledge of textiles offers a field that is small but that gives promise of enlargement. Women with this knowledge can be the larger department stores, and also in chemical work in laundries.
Fine Arts Students Make Thrift Posters For Savings Campaign
Women intending to enter any phase of this work are advised to prepare for it early in the college course by taking biology, chemistry, and physiology. Textile work or interior decorating demands a course in elementary art, and a reading knowledge of French and German is practically essential to a worker in any branch of home economics.
Positions are open, too, for interior decorators, managers of tea-rooms, and dietitians in dormitories of schools, and other institutions where they work. Teachers will be fed daily. Teachers, of course, will be in demand in this subject.
As Prizes
President's Letter Will be Highest Reward—Certificates As Prizes
Classes in drawing and painting in the School of Fine Arts are giving all their time this week to the patriotic service of designing posters to promote the sale of War Savings Stamps. This is a part of the program to students in all schools and colleges in the United States.
The posters are to follow three themes. First, the idea of patriotism and the necessity of supplying the government with credit; second, the virtue of thrift; and third, the idea of thought and practice that will not require the production of non-essentials but will release labor and goods to the production of essentials and all that is required to support our armies in the field and win the war. Blue, used by the War Department in its advertising campaign must be one of the colors used.
The first prize in each of these themes is twelve War Savings Certificates, the second five War Savings Certificates and the third three Certificates. President Wilson will write a letter of commendation to the winners of the highest prizes. A national jury will make awards. The posters must be completed by May 1.
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS, TUESDAY AFTERNOON, MARCH 5, 1918.
Save the quarters and see the not-
lars grow. Buy War-Savings stamps
War Diplomacy is Theme Of Forum's Discussion
Diplomacy of the war will be discussed by Prof. W, W. Davis, associate professor of history, at the regular meeting of the Women's Forum which will be held Thursday afternoon, March 7, at 3 o'clock in Room 110, Fraser Hall. After this week the Forum meetings will probably be changed to Wednesday afternoons.
The War
Here and Over There
WAR THOUGHT FOR TODAY
Treating diplomatically with the Bobovskii is like buying a harm from a traitor lived in it over night.
*New York Sun*
The Texas Legislature has ratified the national prohibition amendment.
Austrian troops carried out several successful raids on the German trenches Sunday.
Quakers and Seven Day Adventists will be drafted for non-combatant services, says Provost Marshal Crowder.
Japan is expected to act alone in Siberia at once, now that the Russo-German peace treaty has been signed and action becomes imperative.
Germany has occupied the Aland Islands as a preliminary to the seizure of Finland. Sweden has protected vigorously against this action.
The Iowa State College has a voluntary company of infantry which is to have the distinction of a patriotic name. It is to be called "Lincoln's Rifles."
The Food Administration has suspended the meatless meal, requiring only the abstaining from beef and pork on Tuesdays, and restricting the use of pork on Saturdays.
The Senate committee which is investigating the German-American Alliance has obtained evidence that this organization has petitioned Congress for an embargo on arms.
General Pershing has referred to the War Department for review the case of four American soldiers, under sentence of death for being caught asleep while on sentry duty in the first line trenches.
The American prisoners which the Germans claim to have taken are believed to be members of a patrol party which went out during the recent raid and did not return. Six Americans were decorated by Premier Clemenceau.
M. Pichon, the French foreign minister, has made public a message received from Germany just before war was declared in which the German's asked for the fortresses of Toul and Verdun as a pledge for France's neutrality in case of Germany's going to war with Russia.
The big show will begin under the main top, a tent of heavy, water proof canvas, promptly at 8 o'clock. The performance is absolutely uncensored, high-class and perilous. The wonderful band is composed of the celebrated musicians of the country who have a program of popular and stirring selections. They will play during the entire performance.
Genius Joins Jungle
In Exotic Promenade
The three huge rings will be governed by the marvelous ring-master, Katherine Reding. One of the champion Hula dancers of the country is offering one of her special numbers. A daring bareback rider, fearless and brave, prepares to nerve-stirring feats are scheduled to stir sawdust and ruin coifures.
Barkers have been enjoined against mendacious advertising by the management which at the last moment guarantees the absolute truth of every one of its claims as to the show.
The big parade of the Wild And Awful Circus will start at 7:30 sharp Wednesday evening, rain or shine and the side shows will proceed immediately afterwards. A section for stragglers has not been provided.
The Chemistry Club will meet Wednesday night at 7:30 o'clock in the Chemistry Building. Prof. F. B. Dains will speak about the K. U. chemistry library.
Proceeds from Concert Will Help Club Make Trip to Funston
Seventy-Five Women Will Sing in Annual Concert at F.A.U. Hal
Seventy-five women will sing in the annual Women's Glee Club concert tonight, which will at 8:15 o'clock in F. A. U. Hall. Profits from the concert will finance a trip of the club to Camp Funston. The final personnel of the club, as announced by Marie Buchan, manager, follows:
First sopranos: Marie Buchanan, Elaine Wharton, Viola Blackman, Jessie Buck, Edna Dolechek, Ruth Gibson, Helen Glaze, Margaret Hodgson, Lorinda Mason, Gladys Nelson, Marie Pinnick, Eva Romohin, Fayette Scott, Alta Smith, Belva Shares, Stammer, Nicole Summers, Vesta Talibert, Helen Weed, Ethel Wyckoff, Helen Nalsnith,
Second sopranos: Hinda Ethridge, Marguerite Adams, Roberta Bair, Olive Barry, Charlotte Carnie, Dorothy Derge, Margaret Devereux, Lora Gould, Thelma Hale, Josephine Huoni, Irene Jordan, Frances Klay, Elma Hunzicker, Gr德uffle Nevins, Luella Plumb, Helen Rutheed, Flora Sallee, Marion Seeley, Mrs. Mildred Smith, Jane Waters.
first alts: Esther Gaillet, Clara Scheurer, Golda Bozell, Myrtie Chafee, Florence Harkrader, Opal Holmes, Helen Jenks, Chelton LuKan, Minnie Moody, Edna Roberts, Velma Waters, Eileen Van Sand, Katherine Barber, Thelma Hines, Myrtle Giddinghagen, Wilma Weatherford, Martha Wulff.
Second alts: Alfrieda Birkas,
Harrieit Brush, Gortruke Ferg, Eva
Hangen, Beatrice Klein, Ruth Neal,
Joan Gorman, Bernice White, Nellie
Young, Helen Peffer.
Group of Lithographs On Exhibition Here
Work by Birger Sandzen to be Shown in Ad, Building Wednesday
An exhibition of lithographs will be opened by Prof. W. A. Griffith in the Administration Building Wednesday. The collection contains about forty lithographic productions of Birger Sanden, professor of Aesthetics and Dean of the School of Fine Arts in Bethany College Lindsburg. Mr. Sanden was born in Sweden, but has lived in Kansas since 1894. He is a member of several art societies and has received prizes at various
The lithographs are produced by means of the use of greasy substances for sketching on stone. The consistency of the lithographic ink on the stone is such that when a moist paper is pressed against this stone surface an exact reproduction of the sketch is printed. These prints may be made many times from the same stone. Often the original sketch is made on paper with the greasy substance and then transferred to the stone, from which the prints are made.
A great many of Mr. Sanden's lithographs are made from scenes in Kansas and the Colorado boulder region.
Alumni Asks Support Of Kansas Club Women
Copies of the resolutions have been mailed to many prominent women of the state, and a campaign to enlist their support will be put on. They will be asked to make this bill their special enterprise for the coming election, and to present it in context to the bill in order that the higher schools may be taken out of politics and allowed to grow as they should after the present war.
At the annual dinner of the Kansas City Alumni chapter of the University held in Kansas City recently, resolutions were made appealing to the women of Kansas, especially the club women of the state, for support of the Permanent Income Bill which will be submitted to the voters at the next election. It is felt by friends of the bill that a strong influence for its passage can be exerted by the women of the state.
Theta Sigma Phi will hold its regular meeting at 3 o'clock Thursday, in the Woman's Rest Room, Fraln Hall.
Doctor Charles Cestre To Speak for France Wednesday at 4 P.M.
French Speaker is Considered Man of High Scholarly Attainments
Dr. Charles Cresto, exchange professor at Harvard, from the University of Bordeaux, will address the students of the University in Green Hall Wednesday afternoon at 4 o'clock on "Fourquoi Nous Nous Battons." All women's classes in the department of physical education will be excused for the lecture. Men who desire to attend the lecture will be given permits by applying at the gymnasium office.
Professor Cestre, France's literary ambassador from the front, was born and bred in France, graduating from her foremost university pursuing graduate work and crowned by degrees in the best universities in England and the United States. He has long been known not only as a distinguished professor of English literature, but on Anglo-French relations and the tremendous issues that have cemented the allies in the Entente Cordiale of the great war.
At a national meeting of modern languages professors at Yale in December, Professor Crestre, speaking English without the slightest trace of accent, delivered an address that, in point of subject, is in agreement with his style and design, was considered the most scholarly and artistic effort of the convention.
Professor Cestre's lecture on France's view of the great struggle for world-emancipation will be under the suspices of the Alliance Francais, and will be open to the public. He will speak in French.
Chancellor on Program of Community Institute
Professor Elmer Will Talk on Results of Social
Survey
Chancellor Frank Strong and Prof M. C. Elmer of the department of sociology went to Clay Center today to make speeches at the War Conference and Community Institute to be held there March 5, 6 and 7.
This Institute is held under the auspices of the University Extension Division in co-operation with the Speakers Bureau of the Kansas State Council of Defense, the Food Administration, the department of sociology of the University of Kansas, Kansas State Agricultural College, State Board of Health, and the local Extension Center Association.
Final for Loving Cup Will be Played in Robinson Gymnasium March 20
Dates Set for Games
In Intramural Contest
Chancellor Strong will speak on "Readjustments to Meet War Emergencies," on Wednesday evening and Professor Elmer will speak both Wednesday and Thursday. His lectures are "Our Community" and "A Greater Clay Center." During the conference there will be a display of the results of the social survey of Clay Center which Professor Elmer made during the Christmas vacation.
The first round of games in the Intramural basketball tournament will be played March 12 with these teams contesting; Pi Phi-Apha Delta Pi vs. Kappa Alpha Theta, Alpha Xi Delta vs. Alpha Chi Omega, Faculty vs. Alemania, Kappa Kappa Gamma vs. W. Y. C. W. On March 15 these teams will clash: Kappa Phi vs. Brush League, Sigma Kappa vs. Gamma Phi Beta, W. A. A. Board vs. Twelfth District.
The second round will be played March 15 and 18. The semi-finals are scheduled for March 18 and 19 cup will be played in loving love will be played March 20.
Practice begins today for the teams playing March 12. Each team will be allowed five practices. Managers of these teams which are scheduled to play on March 15 are asked to confer with Miss Pratt at once concerning practice hours. The entire second ficeor of the gymnasium is available at 3 o'clock each afternoon and at 7 o'clock in the evening.
Send the Daily Kansan Home.
W. A. A. Members Draw
Clever Circus Posters
Some clever posters for the W. A. A. circus, March 6, are on exhibition in the various buildings.
There are clowns in yellow, red and green; tall ones, short ones, lean ones, fat ones; clowns who walk and run and tumble; dancing girls in every color of the rainbow; and acrobats who amaze you.
These posters are all original work. Some are in water colors; some in pen and ink work. One is done in oil. They were made by members of the W. A. A. Those on display were contributed by Miriam Jones, Helen Pearls, Mildred Shone, Ruth Ellis, and Doris Drought.
Plain Tales From The Hill
SPRING HITS THE BARD
The blood is swelling in my veins, A poet,
The bluebirds flit across my range of perceptual observations.
And robins sing.
Nocturnal carolers besiege my dreams;
And spring is here.
One of the Sigma Nu's hunted up a flashlight cartridge the other night. When all the rest of the fraternity was asleep, along about 1 o'clock in the morning, he took his fiendish cartridge and set it off.
I love them not.
My galoshes tread the muddy streets
Yes, spring is come.
Instructors e'en forget
To hold their classes overtime
While watching out the windows
which vernal rains have scrubbed:
Oh, sure it's spring!
Weather predictions heed not
For ah, 'tis spring.
Members of the cast of the dramatic art class were giving a play Monday afternoon in which they were supposed to quaff spicy beer from tall steins. They didn't it. They used ginger ale instead. Ginger ale, y' know, has the stored up energy and vim of a Vesuvius.
The house stretched itself and yawned. Then it rushed to the lower story room where the smoke was billowing about in fantastic shapes. The expected bomb was not found.
THAT'S WHAT ALE'S THEM
The amateur Booths and Addamss began to remove the cap before taking the bottle on the stage. It fizzed, that is, the ale did. The fixtures of the ante-room were spattered with the fiery liquid. What is worse, a can of powder upset in the liquid pool on the floor. The leading man didn't get all the powder he wanted, or ginger ale, either.
Men at the University of Missouri are observing razorless days. A bewhiskered K. U. man said this morning that students here observe razorless days, sometimes several days in succession. The trouble, he said, is that we don't have any system; a special day set aside for the purpose would give a uniformity of appearance.
A Kansas Cub dived into the effec breathlessly this morning. He had found a story of a University student who was doing a most unusual thing. Other Universities, said the Cub, were apt to lure him away from K. U. if he was not persuaded to stay here.
This student, instead of spreading a lot of pencil lead on the arms of classroom chairs, had reversed pencil and was destroying the rubber end by quietly obliterating a few of the marks that were there.
Terrill to Use Rescue Car in Work at Prison
The Daily Kansan-a daily letter home.
Permission was granted to Prof. A C. Terrill of the department of mining engineering at the University of Kansas, to bring Rescue Car No. 4, now in Oklahoma to Lansing, Kansas, where he has been doing work in connection with his program to make coal mining less obvious to prisoners in the state penitentiary. Professor Terrill has been studying conditions at Lansing two days of the week for nearly a month.
Professor Terrill was in Washington, D. C., last week and while there received this permission from the United States Bureau of Mines. The car carried various exhibits and devices along with some excellent motion pictures.
Triangular Debaters Oppose Oklahoma and Colorado Teams Friday
Affirmative Talks Against Oklahoma While Negative Argues With Colorado
First Woman Gets on Squad
Power of Federal Courts to Declare Congressional Acts Unconstitutional
The members of the teams which will represent the University in the triangular debate with Oklahoma and Colorado Friday, March 8, have been announced by Prof. H. T. Hill who has been coaching the squads. Only one veteran is in the squads this year and for the first time in the history of the University a woman is on a Varsity team. She is Mary McCain18 whose work on the squad has had such strength as to win her the position of second speaker on the affirmative square which meets Colorado.
The members of the affirmative squad besides Miss Bean are Robert Albach and Edward Mason. The negative team meeting Oklahoma at Norman is composed of Herman Hangen, E. G. Smith, and William Wilson. The negative team will leave for Norman Friday. The subject of a debate this year is Resolved that Formal Court of the United States should be deprived of the power to declare acts of congress unconstitutional.
Kansas will debate the affirmative side of the question at Lawrence against the Colorado negative team. The same night the Kansas negative team will meet Oklahoma at Norman, and the Oklahoma and Colorado teams will debate at Boulder. The second day of two debates to be held this year. A debate with Missouri will be held in April.
The names of the judges will probably be announced Wednesday, according to instructors in the department of public speaking. The judges here will be from Kansas City.
Ten K. U. Men In France Register at American University Club Paris
Students in France Are Urged To Stay at Union's Hotel
A letter was received by Chancellor Frank Strong this morning from the American University Union in Paris giving the names of the young men from the University of Kansas who are in France and have registered at the Union headquarters. The men are William L. Wilam, I. Aisworth "14, H. C. Mullin "13, S. T. Millard "06, Albert M. Murphy "17, Ben H. Nichel "10, Roy Stockwell "11, Francis Q. Wilson "13, M. White "04.
The University joined the Union recently and the directors are asking the Chancellor io send the names of its students who are in France in order that they may be informed the University is helping to provide a place for its men where they may go and feel at home. The headquarters has the privilege of a simple club for college men and their friends passing room. The staff passing room. The privileges include an information bureau, writing and news paper room, library, dining room, bed rooms, baths, social features, opportunities for physical recreation, entertainments, and medical service.
The Royal Palace Hotel at 8 Rue de Richelieu, which has just recently been built, has been chartered by the Union. It is in the heart of the great boulevard district and is easily accessible from all parts of Paris. It is near the Louvre and the Tuileries Gardens, and is within a block of the Palais Royal station of the "Metropolitan"—the Paris subway. Any students knowing of relatives or friends from the University who are in France should send their names to Chancellor Strong at once so that the Union may inform them of the advantages offered by the club.
Date rule suspended Tuesday evening, March 5 for the Women's Glee Club Concert at F. A. U. Hall—Katherine Redding.