UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN VOLUME XV. NUMBER 100 This Year's Contest For Kansas Beauties Promises to Be Keen Race Begins Monday and Lasts Two Weeks, Annual Men Announce Petitions for Candidates out Names of Contestants Will Be Published in Monday's Kansan If the interest that has already been shown in the "Our Kansas Girls" contest of the 1918 Jayhawker is any indication, Tuesday morning will see the beginning of the hottest fought "beauty contest" that has ever been conducted at the University; and the succeeding two weeks will be one of constant activity for the twenty or more nominees who will be in the race, according to Don Davis, a prospective candidate. Petitions for prospective candidates have been circulated widely during the last few days. The names of those nominated for the contest will be announced in Monday's Kansan. "All petitions for nomination must be in the hands of the Jayhawker management by Monday noon," Harry Morgan, editor of the annual, said this morning. "Eleven complete petitions have been received and we expect many more. Twenty or thirty candidate probably will be announced Monday. A Variety of Stunts Promised on Program Of Women's Glee Club Votes in the contest will be given for all money paid in on subscriptions, dues, or for organization space. Each cent counts for one vote. Solicitors will begin selling annuals Monday. Purchasers will also be tagged, in order that other solicitors may not approach them. The contest will continue until Saturday night, March 16. Seniors and presidents of organizations who have paid their dues may get voting coupons by calling at the Jayhawker office. missior Club Members Will Present a Humorous Sketch At Inter- "Joint Owners," a short humorous sketch, will be given at the time of the usual intermission at the Women's Glee Club concert. Tuesday night March 5, at F. A. U. Hall. The program arranged for the concert will include as many different stunts as the Follies, according to Marie Buchanan, manager. The program follows: 1. Voice of My Beloved. Daniela 2. Duet GERTRUDE FERG AND JESSIE BUCK 3. Violin Quarte— 3. Violin Quartet (a) Intermezzo Sinfonio from Cavalleria Rusticana ... *Masegna* (b) Dance, arranged by *Seenger* EDNAH HOPKINS IBRENE IMUS VESTA TALBOT LAURA JACKMAN 4. Solo, A June Morning ... *Willeby* ELAINE WHARTON Louisiana Old School Ses 5. Musical Reading ELAINE WHARTON 6. (a) Love's Old Sweet Song (b) Carmen Sketch ... Joint Owners EVA HANGEN ... EVA ROBINSON LORIDA MASON ... EDNA ROBERTS 1. Vienna Serenade 1. Viennese Serenades 2. *Hill and Stevenson* 3. Sound奏序; Four-piece clubs. Baritone Song—W.M. B. DOWNING Violin Obligato—EDNAH HOPKINS LAURA JACKMAN. Cello Obligato—WILLIAM DALTON Directed by PROF. FRANK E. KEN WE 2. (a) Lullaby from "Erminie" ... Jakobowski (b) ) Chit Chat ... Moffat 3. Solo, My Fiddle and I...Goodeve CLARA SHEIER Violin Obligate, EDNHA HOPKINS 4. Ragtime Stunt by Octette. (a) For the Flag and America (b) A Song of Liberty ... Mrs. Beach Cup War-Savings Stamps are Worth Self-Sacrifice. Sweaters Knitted By Women Come in Slowly UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS, FRIDAY AFTERNOON, MARCH 1, 1918. Sixteen sweaters from the one hundred pounds of yarn checked out by University women shortly after Christmas, have been turned in at Robinson Gymnasium. Approximately eighty-five women checked out yarn but the sweaters are coming in slowly. "We are anxious to have the sweaters turned in as soon as possible," said W. O. Hamilton, "so they will be of use this year." The War Here and Over There WAR THOUGHT FOR TODAY Lick a War Savings Stamp and lick the Kaiser. A Chicago woman has sold $12,000 worth of thrift stamps. The Texas lower house has voted to ratify the national prohibition amendment. Only one small French vessel was torpedoed last week. Italy reports no submarine losses. Unofficial Petrograd reports state that American Ambassador Francis has left the city. The cabinet of Spain has resigned on account of being unable to agree on an attitude toward Germany. The British casualties for the past month were the lowest since last winter, totalling less than twenty thousand. The War Department has announced that women are not wanted as radio operators in the navy or naval reserve unless they have had long experience. Reporter He Say It Be One Fine Party The Kansan office is deserted and worried today. None of the gentle little sisters of the honorary journalism sorority has poked her head within range of the newspaper shop. The old staid men, from reporter to boss-beditor, are disconsolate. "Whatsamatter?" growled th news editor. "Durnedifino," grunted his aid. "Durrellinfo, grunted his aid. "Find out," was the curt order. And then cub reporter was assigned. The rest of this is his story, just as it came to him, and it belongs to him. And he found: Cub reporter he say he is pretty well satisfied with story and himself and he pretty likely go to that Bill Board Ball tonight. That those Theta Sigma Phi's, of no mean newspaper note, were gathering together a Board Bill—no a Bill Board Ball, or a Ball of Bill Boards or something like that or worse, that would astound the elite of K. U. society and ruin the new society editor of the paper that covers the Hill at least when the wind blows. Y. W. C. A. pledges may be paid any time tomorrow at the check stand in Fraser Hall. Then last big news comes from assistant commissary supervisor. Reporter he say she make issue formal statement late in the night. No candy, she say. No candy, she repent. And no cabs, no flowers. One Hoover fellow he says better not. Be happy as you can, but not no forget what must never be forgotten now. And journalists—they know. Reporter he begin to feel he is one pretty smart fellow. He learn things. That's the way he put it. Mexican pulkey direct from the sandsweet, sage-brushed desert far south of the Rio Grande will adorn the boards,—not the bill boards, but the boards, the stomping ground. Reporter he assure he believe pulkey is Mex for punch, punch that make whole world go round and happy be,—punch of glowing, sparkling, red with juice of orange, purple with juice that one greasel Nebraska always loves. Other things will be on deck—on table to be exact—the reporter report and no one will leave the F. A. U. Hall to keep from starving. Delectable, detachable sandwiches imported from Catus Country will be doled out with proper conservation restrictions by journalistic hostesses. Nuts will be there—yes, yes, of course but also nuts to be eaten—nuts that once grey on trees in Oklahoma and Texas. Chancellor to Speak On U.S. War Program To People of Kansas F. R. Hamilton Also is a Member of State Speakers' Bureau Give Accurate Information Food Administration Will Sen Lectures to Conferences Throughout State Two teams of speakers have been selected by the Speakers' Bureau of the Kansas State Council of Defense to fill the program made out by them. This is designed to give accurate information on the war. Twelve representative towns in the state will be covered in a series of war conferences which are to be conducted by the Kansas Council in co-operation with the National and State Food Administration Speakers' Bureau. F. R. Hamilton of the extension division of the University is a member of the Speakers' Bureau which also includes Dean E. C. Johnson of the State Agricultural College, Dr. E. J. Kupil of Topeka, and other teachers in the state. The bureau has divided the speakers into two teams. SPEAKERS FROM THE CONFERENCE The first team has us as European representatives, Armand Wood, Dr. R. L. Wilber, assistant Federal Food Administrator and Lieut. Paul Perigord. The second team has Roscoe Mitchell, Elizabeth Keller, Sherman Davis, Miss Cora Binzel of the Federal Food Administration, Dr. R. L. Wilber, and Hon. Everett Colby, Special Commissioner to France will also speak. In addition to these speakers, Chancellor Frank Strong, P. W. Goebel, state director of the War Savings Committee, Dean William Jardine of the State Agricultural College, Walter Innes, state food administrator, and Doctor Kulp of Topeka will speak at the conferences. SPEAKERS FROM EUROPE TO GIVE WAY INFORMATION The chief aim of the conferences is to give such absolutely accurate information of the causes, conditions, and probable results of the war that the people of the state will more thoroughly back the national administration and the men in the trenches. The speakers will cover ten counties in the state and will speak in towns that have influence over a large neighborhood. The first team will lecture at Ottawa, Council Grove, Salina, Scott City, Dodge City and Hutchinson. At the same time the second team will speak at Horton, Clay Center, Downs, Colby, El Dorado, and Parsons. The conferences will begin March 4 and will all be held in the following week. The programs will last one or two days in each town. Academy of Science To Observe Anniversary Dr. Williston of Chicago Will Speak Friday After- The semi-centennial anniversary of the Kansas Academy of Science will be observed at the University of Kansas March 15 and 16. The first meeting of the academy was held in Topeka. Forty-seven years ago the program was established at Old North College. The program this year will be given in Snow Hall. There will be a dinner after the address by Doctor Williston to which all members of the academy are invited. In the evening, the scientific papers which will be chosen from the thirty or more submitted, will be read. These papers will be printed in the "Transaction of the Kansas Academy of Science." Dr. Samuel W. Williston, a graduate of the Kansas State Agricultural College and a former member of the faculty of the University of Kansas, will talk at 4 o'clock on Friday afternoon. Send the Daily Kansan Bome. Doctor Williston came to the University in April 1890 to teach geology. He left in 1902 to become a member of the faculty of the University of Chicago. The spirit of retaliation aroused in the American lines by the gassing of sixty-six soldiers is expected to bring about a determined artillery attack on the Germans at once. Union Week to Begin March 3 When Young People Hold Meeting Committee Has Been Working On Plans and Expect Large Attendance Various Societies of Lawrence Are Co-operating in Holding Religious Gathering To Give Impetus to Work The special celebration which the Lawrence Christian Endeavor Union is planning for the week, March 3-10, is being worked out by a committee partly composed of University students. This committee is urging a large attendance of students and faculty members at the various meetings of the week. Nearly all of the young people's societies of Lawrence are co-operating in holding the meetings, which, according to Alfred Graves, c21, are for the purpose of giving new impetus and interest to young people's work in the city. UNION MEETING SUNDAY The week will open next Sunday night with a union mass meeting at the church. All church services will be combined with the young people's meetings this night. UNION MEETING SUNDAY Raymond Youmans, president of the Kansas City young people's union and professor in the public speaking department of Kansas City University will speak. Short talks will be made by several local speakers, and special music will be given. The regular union prayer meeting will be held in charge of the Christian Endeavor union in the Christian church Wednesday night. Ulita Hawkins will lead, emphasizing the relation of the prayer meeting to the young people's society. A large mixer for all the young people of the city is planned for Friday, at the Baptist church, under the leadership of Harold Constant. The goal for the night is an attendance of 350 persons. A week of special meetings had been planned for an earlier date, but on account of the fuel situation, it was postponed until warmer weather. Ethel Minger, c'20, is chairman of the committee on general arrangements for the week. Students Cutting Gym Have Been Notified Action Is to Follow College Leads in List of Ab- sences—Laws Come Next Students who have not been attending gymnasium classes in accordance with the Senate rule have been notified by the department and ordered to make arrangements for making up cuts. Those who failed to obey the warning were referred to the deans of their schools today and will be given three days to arrange for making up the work. The department has divided the students who have not attended into three classes: delinquent, class one, and class two. The delinquent class is made up of students who have never enrolled for any form of physical education and have three weeks work to make up for the department. work to make up for the department. Class one includes students who have not had regular attendance but have shown some disposition to make up the work since being notified by the department. Class two is made up of students who did not obey the warning cards sent out by the department and have not shown any disposition to make up their cuts. The Senate has given the deans of the University power to suspend all students from class who are reported in the Senate to the department of physical education. The College leads the list of irregular students with 56 delinquent, 23 in class one, and 23 in class two. The School of Law comes next with 26 delinquents, three in class two. The School of Engineering has thirteen delinquents, one in class one, and five in class two. The Graduate School has five delinquents, the School of Pharmacy six, School of Fine Arts one, and the School of Medicine five, four in class one, and eight in class two. Class of 1918 to Give New Clock to Chapel At a meeting of the senior memorial committee last night it was decided to tax each senior twenty-five cents to buy a clock for the chapel which will be installed temporarily in Fraser and which will be moved to the new Administration Building when it is finished. "These memorial dues will be collected by the committee," said Walter Raymond, chairman, today, "who will give an authorized receipt for the money." The committee consists of Walter Raymond, chairman, Clarence Garrill, Charles Schugart, Mignon Plank and Nell Blurton, who will call up each senior or see him personally and collect the dues. Plain Tales From The Hill The first sergeant was getting ready to call the roll. "Right shoulder, amrs," he said, or rather meant to say, for his voice broke and squeaked on the "arms." The men cigged. "Steady," said the captain. "Cut that out," growled the first lieutenant. The men who had almost stopped laughing began anew, startled by the tone of the lieutenant. It was at a recent Varsity dance. Charley Shofstall, who is to be the main attraction at the Theta Sigma Phil's Bill Board Ball, was tickling the ivories in that seductive way of his, jazzing a bit here and there and then playing the same melody with bassical correctness. "Sho'f's going great tonight, isn't he?" observed a man whose style of dancing isn't the kind the co-eds rave about. His date thought so too. "Almost as good as Sho-pang, isn't he?" continued the man. As she didn't contradict that statement, he went on. "Sho-pang was quite a musician too," he said. "He wrote the Marseillaise, you know." And she was a Fine Arts student! SHOO. GO 'LONG, 'LIZA A colored man who delivers washings to some students on Ohio street has contracted a splendid case of swell head. All because he has mistaken twice for a young lady's date. One cold wintery night he was met at the door with a sympathetic "Come right in. You poor thing, I bet you's almost frozen to death." Before the colored man could protest he was led into the warm parlor where, with the aid of the lights, the young lady realized her mistake. Then on a summery night when he rang the door bell, a young lady came out and said, "I'm all ready, so we'll just go on now." And she was decided disgusted when he wouldn't go. The officers of the 4 o'clock military drill company that faces the south as it is lined up for roll call were surprised Thursday afternoon at the steadiness with which the men kept their eyes straight to the front, their heads up, and chins drawn back. What kept these privates from gawking to the right and left or studying the toes of their boots was a long V of geese flying in the general direction of California. OF SUCH IS MAN The women's glee club was on the platform of Fraser Hall trying to reach the high Z necessary for their concert Tuesday night. The men's glee club came to the hall to try the strength of their vocal cords, but found the women in their way. So they went to the balcony door and neered in. An ambitious woman, seeing a chance to sell a lot of tickets for the concert, went up the stairs to intercept the men. They, clutching their pocketbooks, climbed higher on the dark stairs of Fraser tower. The young woman saw nobody. ... Notice Owing to the withdrawal of some members of the class in typewriting, there is room now for a few more machines in the class. Two or three machines are available for use. K. U. Students to Sign Savings Stamp Blanks At Gym Classes Today Is Part of National Drive to Sell $2,000,000,000 Worth Shaad Wants 2000 to Invest Chairman of Committee Expects To Have Little Trouble in Obtaining Number If you have not bought War Savings Stamps to date, will you begin to invest to the amount of one Baby Bond, $4.14 to $4.17 by July 1, 1918? If so you are entitled to membership in the University War Saving Society. Have you bought. War Savings Stamps to the amount of $4.13? If so you are entitled to membership in the University of Kansas War Saving Society upon signing and mailing the application blank delivered to you in your physical education class today. If you will signify your intention to invest in War Savings Stamps between now and July 1, but cannot see your way to save as much as $4.14, you are entitled to membership in the Society by signing and mailing the application blank, stating the amount you will agree to invest. Application blanks for membership in the University of Kansas War Saving Society will be handed to every student in physical education classes today. The campaign for new members in War Saving Societies is a part of the national drive to dispose of $2,000,000,000 of War Saving Stamps. "The University, should have 2,000 members in a War Saving Society and these should be obtained without further solicitation," said Prof. G. E. Shaad, chairman of the Finance Committee of the University War Council, this morning. "Each student is asked to sign the application blank, place it in the return envelope and drop it in any University mail box. "Stamps should be purchased to the amount of the agreement and as many more as can be arranged at the Registrar's office or post office." Wild Man from Borneo Comes to W.A.A. Circus All the Big Top Features Will Be Shown in Entertainment for Women Only That famous Wild Man from Borneo who is making a farewell tour of America is to make his positively last appearance in Lawrence next Wednesday at the head of his own company. The show, called the Wild and Awful Circus for Women Only will be given in Robinson Gymnasium and will consist of a program that will prove unalterably how wild the Wild Man really is. No other man, no woman, nor child will be allowed the Wild Man's show, but all women who can present a twenty-five cent piece or a W. A. A. membership card at the entrance of the main top will be permitted to see the wild and awful show and all its wildonders. Assisting the Wild Man and his own private troup will be some of the foremost women celebrities of the University, and a sprinkling of near celebrities. Except that no men, except the Wild Man may attend, the circus will contain all the usual circum attractions. One of the cleverest A's has charge of the side shows. Another who has the ice cream and pop corn concessions, promises that the skofin will be good. Positively the only broads that will be recognized will be the W. A. A. membership cards. No moll need expect to get by the ticket guy on a shorter flash than a two-bit piece or W. A. A. paper. There will be a meeting of the "A's" Saturday morning at 9 o'clock in Robinson Gymnasium. Those in the circus must report at 10 o'clock. Send the Daily Kansan Home.