UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOLUME XV.
To Choose Contestants In Annual Beauty Race By Petition This Year
NUMBER 97.
Contest Starts Monday, Davia Announcees; Candidates Must Have 25 Signers
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS, TUESDAY AFTERNOON, FEBRUARY 26, 1918.
Will Continue Two Weeks
Candidates in the annual Jayhawk beauty contest will be nominated by petition, this year, instead of by a group of seniors on the Jayhawk staff, as has been the custom in the past. The contest will be called "The Kansas Girl Contest," and contestants will compete on the basis of beauty and popularity. These announcements were made this morning by Don Davis, manager of the book.
A Vote for Every Cent Paid Jayhawker; Eight Winners Get Page Each
Any woman in the University may become a candidate in the contest if a petition endorsing such candidacy, signed by twenty-five students, is presented to the annual management before next Monday noon. The contest will start next Monday and continue for two weeks. Every person who buys a Jayhawker is entitled to vote in the contest, one vote being given for each cent paid into the annual fund.
The eight women receiving the highest number of votes will each be given a page of space in the "Our Kansas Girls" section of the Jayhawker. This section is to be unusually handsome this year, according to Davis. It will be printed in duotone ink on specially prepared paper; and promises to be the most elaborate "beauty section" that has yet appeared in a Jayhawker.
"The beauty section has become a recognized feature of the Jayhawker," said Davis this morning, "and ever since the first section of that kind, appearing in the 1915 annual, the beauty contest idea has been growing in popularity. This year, we hope to popularize it even more; and by requiring nomination petitions I am sure we shall do away with a lot of unfairness that has accompanied some previous contests. Three faculty men will be asked to serve as judges when the votes are counted on March 16.
Team Begins Practice For Games with Aggies
Petitions may be turned in to either Harry Morgan, editor of the book, or Davis, the manager, any time before Monday noon of next week. The Jayhawker office in the Daily Kansan building is open from 10 to 11 a.m. and from 1 to 4 p. m. daily except Saturday.
Intensive Training for Fina Series of the Season to Start Tomorrow
The Kansas basketball team will start intensive practice for their series of games with the Aggies at Manhattan on March 4 and 5, Wednesday afternoon. The team cannot use the gym today because of convocation.
The Kansans have been inconsistent all season and expect to show something in these two final games of the season. The Aggies must beat Kansas to remain in the championship race in the valley. The K. U. team won one game from the Aggies here and expect to put a crimp in the farmers' championship prospects next week when they meet at Manhattan
Need Red Cross Nurses Miss W. Pearl Martin, secretary of the Kansas State Association of Nurses will speak in Room 101, Fraser Hall, Thursday afternoon, at 3 o'clock. University women are invited and urged to attend. The Association of Nurses is trying to bring to the attention of college women the urgent need at present for nurses and conditions of training for the work. The campaign is undertaken with the approval of W. C. Gorgas, United States Army Surgeon General.
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Fire Caused by Phenol In Leaky Can Exploding
A fire in the Chemistry Building, caused by an explosion was put out by the janitor and several of the students yesterday afternoon at 3:45 o'clock. Quick use of a hose on the same floor stopped the blaze from spreading.
A can containing several pound of carboic acid was put on a hot plate to melt. The exact cause of the explosion is not known, but the general supposition of the faculty members in the department is that the solder of the can melted and the material caught fire.
The alarm was turned in but before the city firemen reached the scene, the blaze had been put out with water and chemicals which were in the building. A loss of from $50 to $75 was the result of the fire and water, said Prof. F. B. Dains, this morning.
The War Here and Over There
WAR THOUGHT FOR TODAY
I'm looking for a bale of barbed wire to knit a sweater for the Kaiser.
—Al Jolson.
Meat, butter and margarine cards went into effect in England yesterday.
Up to February 1, 275 professional baseball players had entered the service, including 112 from the major leagues.
Forty-four persons were rescued yesterday from the wreck of the Red Cross liner Florizel, which went on the rocks near Cape Race in a storm.
The embargo against candies in the navy, which originated with reports of impurities in the sweets, has been lifted by the secretary of the navy.
France, after three and one-half years of war, has three million men in the trenches. The national debt now amounts to twenty-three billion dollars.
American artillery of the heaviest type is now in action on both the Western and the Italian front, contrary to the belief that few American guns had been sent over.
American troops in the Chemi-
des-Dames sector successfully raided
the German lines yesterday without
a casualty, capturing two officers,
twenty soldiers, and a machine gun.
Every soldier in the country will receive a number Thursday for purposes of identification. These numbers will appear on his clothing and on all records, and will not be changed for any reason whatever.
Juvenile crime has increased enormously in almost every warring country. In Vienna, the number of crimes committed by boys and girls under eighteen was 340 per cent greater last year than in normal times.
A Petrograd dispatch states that the Germans intend to re-establish the monarchy in Russia. Alexandra, the former czarina, is to be the temporal ruler as the guardian of her son, Alexius. The Germans have occupied Reval in their advance into Russia.
Count Von Hertling, the German chancellor, said before the Reichstag yesterday that he agreed with four of the principles for peace made by President Wilson, but that they must be proposed by all the Allies before action will be taken.
Ryan Williams, c21, has bee nominated by Congressman D. R. Anthony as a principal candidate for an appointment to fill a vacancy in the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis, Maryland. Three vacancies are due the First Congressional district of Kansas. The men nominated have been for the most part those already in the service. The examination will be held April 16.
The Atlantic Conference, recently formed in England, is composed of British, French, and American steamship lines which plan to protect the commercial interests of each nation after the war from German invasion.
Four Letter Men Will Form Nucleus for This Year's Team
Practice For Baseball Commences On McCook At 4 o'Clock Tomorrow
Will Play Twelve Games
Missouri, Ames, and Kansas are Only Contestants in Valley Race
Candidates for the freshman baseball team have been ordered to report at McCook Field tomorrow afternoon at 4 o'clock for the first outdoor practice of the season. If the weather permits, Coach Bond intends to give the men a good workout and he has ordered each man to bring a glove and ball.
There was no practice this afternoon for either Varsity or freshman, but the Varsity candidates will work out in the gymnasium tomorrow afternoon between 3 o'clock and 4 o'clock. Battery candidates have already begun limbering up their arms and getting them in good condition for the beginning of outdoor practice.
The Jayhawkers will play twelve conference games this year and will open the season here with Ames as their opponents, April 22, 23 and 24. Only Kansas, Missouri and Ames will play baseball in the Missouri Valley, as the other schools have dropped the national game for the period of the war. To cut the expense to the minimum, all the games will be played in four series of three games each. Three are scheduled with Missouri to be played on McCook Field and three on Rollins Field at Columbia, while three contests will be played at Ames and the Iowa Farmers meet the Crimson and Blue nine in a trio of games here at the opening of the season.
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The name of W. W. Davis, instructor of war at 4 o'clock is included in the list. His class of more than two hundred men in drill have been held from five to seventeen minutes overtime practically every day since the new semester.
Coach Bond has four men with experience on the Varsity team as a nucleus around which to build his nine. These men are Wardie Weltmer, "K" man and right fielder on the 19th team, Dutch Schoenfeld, who won his "K" at second base on last year's nine, Stem Foster, who played an infield position during the latter part of last season and Julian Stephenson, an outfielder who got into several games in 1917. It was thought that Joe Pratt, Varsity shortstop last year who has enlisted in the navy, would be able to return to school and hold down his old position, but Coach Bond received a letter from Pratt recently in which the little shortstop stated that he was sick and would not be able to enroll.
The fourteen men from Potsy Clark's 1917 freshman squad who are in school are strong possibilities for winning regular positions this year and most of the men are limbering up every day in the gymnasium. The freshmen back are: Bunn and Davis, catchers; Schoppel, Calper, Beiser, and Slawson, pitchers; Machamer, Isenberger, Lonborg, Cherry and Convis, infielders; and Smith, Oyster and Willhelmy, outfielders.
The Kansan hasn't run the names of the profs who hold their classes overtime for some months.
The enlistment of Captain-elect Nick Carter has left the team without a leader, but there is no need for a captain at present and the new leader will not be chosen until the team is picked, which will probably be early in April.
Seventy men are enrolled for baseball, including both upperclassmen and freshmen, and this list includes many promising players who have never been out for the nine here, but who are eligible to play on the Varsity this year. With the veterans, last year's freshman, and the new men, Coach Bond expects to get together a good team by the time of the first series with Ames.
There may be others. Let the Kansan know about them.
Earl Keilman Is First K. U. Man To Return From Oversea Service
First Lieutenant In American Heavy Artillery Released Because of Poor Health
Flew Across Enemy's Lines
Reports That German Prisoners Do Not Want to Go Back
The first student to come back from active service in France is Earl Kellman, who returned from France a week ago Saturday after being at the front as a first lieutenant in the American heavy artillery about four months. Keilman was sent home because of a defect in his lungs discovered by French physicians. He is now at work as city editor of the Lawrence Daily Journal-World.
At the time of the entrance of this country into the war Keilman was an artillery man at Fortress Monroe. He obtained his commission as first lieutenant at an officers' training camp and was sent across in command of ninety-four other officers many of whom were first lieutants.
Kleiman, who was a student in the department of journalism at the University several years ago, has since been in the newspaper game and in the regular army as an artillery specialist. He was working on a down-town paper when his health failed and he was forced to give up his school work. That was in his junior year. He remained in Lawrence a few months longer and then went to Topeka and was on the staff of papers there. He then went to Manhattan. He was made a member of Sigma Delta Chi, honorary journalism fraternity, while there.
While in France Lieutenant Kielman saw many things that would make good newspaper stories. He is writing interesting bits of his experiences daily. He was in the front line trenches of both the French and the English, and on one occasion went across the enemy's lines with a French observer in his airplane. They were not hit and neither of the men in the airplane seemed the least bit concerned about the bullets flying about them.
Another time he was in charge of a portion of the heavy artillery when the shell fire of Huns tore up the track on which the guns were being hauled into firing position. While the track was being repaired the Huns began to get their range, but the artillerymen were able to move on before their exact location was discovered.
Architects Entertained Students in Fine Arts
"The German prisoners are a happy lot," said Kelman. "It is more a matter of formality that one Frenchman is placed on guard over a bunch of forty or fifty Germans. They do not care to go back, for they will have to fight. Where they are they get good food and clothing and a place to sleep until the war is over, and they are safe.
The Architectural Engineering Society entertained the department of drawing and painting of the School of Fine Arts in the lecture room of Marvin Hall Friday night. A four-act program was given, followed by an exhibition of drawings done by the department of architectural engineering. The remainder of the program consisted of dancing.
Among the drawings in the exhibit were the five recently submitted to the Beaux Art Institute of Design of New York. Four of the five drawings submitted received honors. A drawing by Rollie Brown received first mention place, while drawings by Paul Strickland, William Icenhower, and Ernest Pickerling each received mentions. The Beaux Arts Institute is the institute of highest award in the country.
Entertaining features of the propram consisted of songs by a chorus, a short skit, vaudeville acts and monologues. Refreshments of cider and gingerbread were served at a miniature bar. Chancellor and Mrs. Frank Strong, Prof. and Mrs. Geo. C. Shaad, and Prof. and Mrs. W. S. Hekking and Prof. and Mrs. Frazier of the School of Fine Arts were honorary guests.
Women Required to Go To Conservation Lecture
The first lecture on Food and the War will be given at 4 o'clock Wednesday in Fraser Hall by E. D. Tector, of the department of home economics. The government has requested every University in the country to hold these lectures so that the women when they leave school this summer will know how to put into practical effect rules on food conservation.
Every woman in the University is required to attend these lectures. She will be checked and for one cut will be withdrawn from her classes until the work is made up. To make up the absence a course of assigned reading will be given and a quiz will have to be taken on the assignment at some 5 o'clock hour.
Plain Tales From The Hill
At a meeting of the Mathematician Club Monday afternoon, the mathematical basis of card tricks was illustrated. Beware, then, of these Math-ers the next time you associate with them lest it might be they have profited by their illustrations. Your royal flush might turn out to be the absolute zero of hands, or your king change to a serf-er, that is, a two-spot.
WHEN STRONG WINDS BLOW Grouped around the table last night, they were discussing the Mt. Oread pastime, wind. The main question was, "What is the windiest place on the Hill."
The person that goes to classes via the Museum stood up for the corner by that building, coming to blows with the engineer who uphold his favorite haunts. The journalist called the corner he turns to go to the Medicine basement the windiest place, while the physicist opposed him by suggesting Blake Hall. A chemistry student growled about the corners of the Chemistry Building, but one who had chased his hat half a dozen times during the day insisted that no part of a hillon could be windier than another.
No, Algernon, not all of the girls wearing the cards with two notes printed on them are named "Grace."
The newly made corporal fussed around quite a time yesterday afternoon after drill, trying to get the names of the men. His men had given their names and were leaving when said corporal rushed among them.
Bedtime forced them to agree to settle the argument by inspecting all parts of the room. And then today, oh sadness, the breeze came only with abated breath.
"Oh," said the corporal, "I never thought of that. I do belong in there somewhere."
The actions and maneuvers of most of the soldiers that visit the University lead some persons to believe that there is much danger of engagements. Nc repulse will be made, it is assumed.
"Did you give me your name?" he asked each of them. They said they had. "But I've only seven names," he reasoned. A fellow in arms whispered in his ear.
Winifred Wygall Tells Of the Y.W.C.A. Work In the Present War
Two more plays for the popular play series have been selected and work begun on them. The date for their presentation has been set for the second week in March. Definite announcement will be made later.
A woman in one of the zoology classes is too short to peer into the microscope as it stands upon a work table. Consequently the instructor dug up a cheese box to increase the height of his student.
Two Dramas "Hiramones" and "Burglars" two one-cue dramas will be given by two casts chosen from the applicants for admission to the Dramatic Club, at the Little Theater in Green Hall, Wednesday night at 7:30 o'clock.
This only made more trouble for the woman, as there was every likl hood that some troublesome perso would steal the precious box. He solution is to put the box on a big shelf when she is not using it, a thin she can do only by climbing on to of the highest chair in the room.
Two Dramatic Club Plays
A damselfly who dearly loves to swim suggests that the basement of the uncompleted Administration Building wings be filled with water and the tower which workmen are constructing for the purpose of raising building materials be turned into a diving tower. Summer, she thinks, is here.
Association Has Met Need of Caring for Women at Camps
Hostess Houses Resulted
"The Best Investment of the Cantonment," Says Major John C. Lee
"The whole W. Y. C. A. program is the outgrowth of an emergency which arose at the beginning of the war and which, because of the organization and efficiency of the Young Women's Christian Association was possible to meet," said Miss Winifred Wygall, who has charge of all work among the women at Camp Funston, in her talk at the regular meeting of the Y. W. C. A. at Myers Hall this afternoon on "The War Program of the Y. W. C. A. at Home and Abroad." "When the United States entered the war the government realized that the problem of caring for the women in the army was one to be speedily considered, and they began to look around for the organization that could handle the situation. As a result they found the Y. W. C. A. equal to the occasion and that organization has carried on the work successfully for the last nine months."
Miss Wygall outlined two divisions into which the work of the Y. W. C. A. has fallen since they undertook the task. First it was their duty to care for the girls in the neighboring communities of the various camps, to provide a natural society life, organize clubs, and supervise entertainment and recreation of the towns. Later there was a demand for classes in French and knitting, which were established.
Before long there arose the necessity for caring for women who visited the camps. Out of this grew the Hostectess House, which is now established in fifty places in the United States, and whose success has caused the government to ask the association for thirty more. These houses contain a check room, office, waiting room, lavatories, an elaborate catera, and a large veranda. They do not provide lodging over night but references are given to nearby houses for the accomodation of the travelers. She emphasized the fact that the Y. W. A. is in many ways opposition to the Y. M. C. A., whose building is to look after the men of the camps. Soldiers come to the house to get a taste of home life, a piece of homemade pie, or a little of the atmosphere of home. Major John C. Lee, recently said to an assembly of men, "I consider the Y. W. C. A. Hostess House the best investment of the cantonment. The soldiers call it home."
In response from a call from the French for the Y. W. C. A. to provide recreation and rest for the thousands of women working in the munitions factories, Miss Wygall pointed out that twenty-three secretaries wearing the Y. W. C. A. are now in France. They have established lunch rooms, soup kitchens, and hotels, and have organized clubs for the girls.
Egg Substitutes Tested And Found Unnecessary
Eggno, Eggoe, Egnit, and Agosave have been thoroughly tested by Prof. Walter S. Long, state food analyst. The conclusions reached prove that the housekeeper does not need to add these egg substitutes to her cake mixture to make a success of the cake.
Harriett Stevenson, c18, has made the practical tests for these substitutes. Cakes with the Eggno, Eggee, Eggnit and Agesave; a cake with egg, and one without egg were made and compared. Aside from an added color there is very little difference in the appearance of the cakes. As the substitutes contain about 50 per cent of starch, the nutritive value is increased. The cost of the cake varies only slightly from one made with egg.
Hamilton Calls for Sweaters
All University women who have been knitting sweaters for enlisted men are being asked by W. O. Hamilton tc turn in the sweaters immediately. If this is not done, he said this morning, they will be practically useless for present needs.