UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOLUME XV.
NUMBER 68
Opera of War Times By Professor Nevin Scores Hit In Chicago
Former University Voice Instructor Answers Twelve Curtain Calls—Produce "Poia"
Success Pleased Director
Lawrence Friends Attended Performance—Nevin Directed The Orchestra
The initial performance of the opera "The Daughter of the Forest" by Prof. Arthur Nevin, former professor of voice at the University, was given at the Auditorium Theater in Chicago last Saturday afternoon by the Chicago Grand Opera Company. A large orchestra, actually received the opera. Professor Nevin appealed for twelve curtain calls at the end of the performance.
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS, WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, JANUARY 9, 1918.
"The Daughter of the Forest" is an American opera of one act, three scenes, and is a story of the Civil War times. Sig. Elefonte Campanini, director of the Chicago Grand Opera Company, conducted the staging of the opera, and he was so well pleased with its success that he has promised K. U. Professor that is shall be his next season. He lish this season. He has also promised to present Professor Nevin's Indian opera, "Poia," next season.
Professor Nevin is at present in charge of the community singing of the soldiers at Camp Grant, Rockford, Ill., and he directed the orchestra in his uniform at the opera. Some credit is due to Miss Clara Powell, a graduate of the School of Fine Arts of Chicago, who led the accompaniment on bass for the rehearsals of the opera. Miss Powell is studying music in Chicago.
Many friends of Professor Nevin attended the performance last Saturday in Chicago. Miss Maude Miller, Miss Dorothy Bordel, Phil A. J. Beyton, L. B. Hughes, and Herbert Flint went from Lawrence.
Prof. Van der Vries Tells of War Work Done By Kansas Man
Templin's War Plan
Has U. S. Endorsement
"K. U. should be proud of Dean Templin and his work," said J. N. Van der Vries in telling of the remarkable work of the Dean of the College now in Washington, D. C.
Professor Van der Vries, who has returned from Washington reports that Dean Olin Templin has already definitely succeeded in amalgamating the several college and university associations into one national organization controlled by one central committee. Such organizations as the Association of American Universities, the Association of State Universities and several other schools associations are already active in many lines of war work but Dean Templin's object is to unify their individual efforts.
The main object of this national college and university organization is to find how college students can best serve their country during and after the war and prepare themselves for doing it. The first thing the national committee is doing is to educate the young people throughout the country to a more thorough conception of the ideals for which America is fighting.
University Economical In Use of Electricity
In accordance with the plans of Prof. E. H. S. Bailey, fuel administrator for Douglas County, the university is further conserving the coal supply by providing the electric light of the white way cluster, instead of all five lights.
For the city of Lawrence there is not enough water available to furnish power to supply the city with electricity because of the frozen condition of the Kaw. In order to save coal the fuel director has advised that only alternate lights on the Massachusetts Street white way be turned on. On two nights of the week the street is darkened at 10 o'clock, and outside street lights are not used Thursday and Sunday nights.
The Daily Kansan—a daily letter home.
Henry J. Allen, Wichita Editor, a Good Reporter
Henry J. Allen, speaking this afternoon in Robinson Gymnasium, is the owner of the Wichita Daily Beacon. He was formerly editor of the Ottawa Herald and has been in the newspaper business in several other smaller Kansas towns.
Mr. Allen is a graduate of Baker University and is now a trustee of that school. He was a candidate for Congress from the Second District and was secretary to Governor Stanley.
Mr. Allen first came into prominence when he was reporting on a Salina paper. The Populists were holding a meeting in a lodge room in Salina when Allen climbed into the left above the room and by the assistance of a ventilator was able to get the proceedings. The members of the party were very much surprised when, the next day, parts of their speeches appeared in print. Mr. Alen lives in Wichita.
The War Here and Over There
Registered men may still enlist in the navy if they are not needed for any current selective service quota.
All night schools in Kansas City will be closed except those for drafter men because of the shortage of coal.
The men at the front must be able o put on their gas masks in five seconds.
Forty per cent of the unnaturalized talians in Kansas City waived exemption and want to fight against the lerms.
On December 20 the Bureau of Public Risk Insurance had received applications to the number of 272,122, aggregating $2,359,402,000 of insurance.
In Phoenix, Ariz., a "Two Bits a Day Club" has been organized, the members of which are to buy a quarters worth of Thrift Stamps every day. In this way they not only do their hit, but they do their "two bits."
Thirteen canteens, at which soldiers may buy either light lunches or full linners, have been established by the American Red Cross in France.
Enlistments are now taken in the Navy as apprentice seamen, firemen, cooks, bakers, skilled mechanics for aviation ground work, musicians, and radio operators.
Orders have been issued by the Fuel Administration to coal companies under contract to supply coal for army cantonments to rush fuel to these camps. No excuse will be accepted by the government for failure to keep the troops warm.
Although the American people have purchased nearly six billion dollars worth of Liberty Bonds in the last year, instead of the savings banks deposits being depleted they have increased. This shows that the American people are learning to save.
Dr. Henry van Dyke, former United States minister to Holland has been commissioned a chaplain in the naval reserve.
Lawton, Oklahoma, has been practically put under quarantine by the army authorities. Only five per cent of the soldiers from Camp Doniphan are allowed to visit the town at any one time.
"All students in the School of Medicine will be enrolled in military drill at the beginning of the second semester," he said. "In the School of Medicine this morning."
Herbert Corey, war correspondent with the British armies in France, says that the Americans must cut the waste in the army if they expect to have any great degree of success. He says that Pershing's men have been using extravagance because of the unpreparedness of the United States.
Fred C. Miller, alleged enemy alien, assumed his chair as mayor of Michigan City, Ind., yesterday without opposition but an application for a temporary injunction to keep him out of office has been made.
Senate Still Considers On Fate Of Medics
"However, the question of their drilling during the remainder of the semester is still being considered by the Senate."
Fathers and Mothers Of K. U. Students To Visit Here In Spring
Parents Will Find Sons and Daughters In Work Clothes Says Professor Rice
parents who attend "Fathers" and Mothers' Week" at the University this year will find their sons and daughters in their work-a-day clothes and attending classes", said Prof. S. O. Rice, of the department of journalism, who originated the plan of establishing each person of the mothers and mothers of students would be especially invited to visit the University.
No definite time has yet been set for Fathers' and Mothers' Week, but it is planned to have it held during spring semester, some time early in spring.
No plays or special entertainments will be given for the University guests, because they would interfere with class schedules and require a great deal of time for preparation. Visiting of classes and laboratories of departments of the University should prove entertainment enough, Professor Rice said. "Fathers" and Mother's Week was established that parents might become better acquainted with the University, and thus be led to take a personal interest in the institution that has for its purpose the education of their sons and daughters."
Shaaq Goes to Capital To Teachers' Convention
Engineering Dean May Ge Course for K. U. Engineers In Shipbuilding
Prof. G, C. Shaad, acting dean of the School of Engineering left last night for Washington, D. C., where he will attend the Convention of Vocational Teachers held there this week. Professor Shand will investigate students in the Engineering students by enlisting in the Engineering Reserve Corps while there.
Thirty-eight students of the school here applied for enlistment in the reserve corps. Of this number only twenty-five were able to meet the requirement necessary for enlistment in the reserve, which was open to engineering students in all classes.
Professor Shand probably will confer with the United States Civil Service Commission which is trying to hasten the building of ships by relieving the dearth of ship draftsmans by recommending to the heads of colleges and technical schools that senior students in engineering be given intensive training in naval architecture during the coming spring, with the view to make them available for ship draftsmans in June.
Fine Arts Faculty
Giving Recital Tonight
The School of Fine Arts will give a faculty recital tonight in Fraser Chapel at 8:15 o'clock. The following is the program:
Recitative and Aria from "Herodio-
lide" Vision Fugitive . . . . .
Aria-Schnorr sei ... Handel
Recitative and Aria from "The
Seasons". Beboll along the dewy
grass ... Haydn
    Mr. Fearell
Etude, Op. 23, No. 4 ... Rubinstein Miss Greissinger
Menuet and Musette . Westerhout
Intermezzo, Op. 35 ... Preyer
Caprice . Schumann
Mr. Farrell
Give a man a horse he can ride.
Miss Greissinger
Give a man a horse he can ride.
O'Hara
Irish Names . Hilton Turvey
I am thy harp. Walmart
Under the Greenwood tree. Dunn
Concertstueck, Op. 40 .. Chaminae Orchestral parts on second piano, piano
Miss Greissinger
Mr. Farrell
More Jobs for Students
Several jobs are now open for University students who are working their way through school. Many men who held these jobs failed to return after graduation, having either been drafted or enrolled some branch of service. Information can be obtained from Floyd McHeenny, secretary of the Y. M. C. A. employment bureau.
Daily Kansan To Have Business and News Rooms More Accessible for Students
Annex Will Be Built To Provide More Room For Newspaper Work
Work was begun today on the foundation for a one-story wooden addition to the Journalism Building which will furnish room for a printing laboratory and a news room. The building will be ready for occupancy early next semester. Superintendent John Shea is directing the work.
This second annex will join the main building at the north-west corner. It will be 39 by 31 feet or a trifle larger than the first wooden addition erected about three years ago. The money will be taken from the department of the university Press. None of it comes out of the regular University appropriations.
"Our work suffers every day for lack of room, and since an adequate Journalism Building is somewhere in the future we are obliged to provide temporary quarters for ourselves," said Professor L. N, Flint, this morning. "The new addition will give the Daily Kansan a business office and a news room that people can easily find, and will enable us to double the size of our library room, now nine by eighteen feet."
The rooms now used by the Kansas will be occupied by a printing laboratory and a class room.
Damage Suit Decided
In Favor of K. U. Mer
Mustard Oil Case Brought By K C. Company Won By Lawrence Firm
The $100,000 damage suit brought by the Central Specialty Company of Kansas City against the W. & W. Chemical Co., of Lawrence, which is composed of John B. Whelan, E. A. White, and Leon B. McCarty, all of whom were formerly connected with the firm, have been decided in favor of the defendants.
Whelan was an instructor in the department of chemistry for three years, White was for a time a student in that department, while McCarty, who is now in the army, was formerly cochair of the Varsity baseball team. District Judge Charles A. Smart, in whose court the case was tried November 30th, handed down the favorable decision last month.
The Kansas City firm charged the local chemists with violating a trade secret in their manufacture of oil of mustard, at present a very valuable chemical product, but the defendants proved that the process they used was no trade secret, consisting merely of a formula well known to manufacturers for many years. The process was discovered by Berthelte, a French chemist, in 1854, and is essentially the same as the one used at present.
Rules For Prize Essay
Contest Are Announced
Rules for the William J. Bryan prize essay contest have been formulated and are now ready for announcement. The subject of the prize essay will be "Freedom of Speech and the Press In War Time." Details of the contest are as follows:
Essays must be from three to ten thousand words in length and must be accompanied by an outline and bibliography. All sources of information must be fully indicated. Essays must be handed to the Chancellor on or before May 1, 1918. They should be submitted with the real name of the author enclosed in a sealed envelope and deported at the same time.
The committee reserves the right to withhold the prize, if, in the opinion of the judges, no one of the essays offered is creditable.
"All organizations of the University should have their list of names for the service flag in today," said Dr. A. T. Walker, chairman of the service flag committee, today. The list of names will be printed in the Kansas before the end of the week. Blanks may be obtained from Doctor Walker or at the Chancellor's office. The committee have but a small number of names now and all students are asked to co-operate with the committee by handing in the name of any college man in the service.
Delayed Senate Meeting Will Be Held Thursday
A special meeting of the University Senate to have been held Tuesday, has been called for Thursday afternoon. Final action will be taken on a resolution that one un-execused cut every two weeks in military drill be allowed and that the deans of the university give penalty for not making an absence.
The University military authorities are opposed to the resolution. They believe it a bad policy for the University to go on record as allowing certain number of cuts each term. Toey contend that there is no written rule concerning cuts in other subjects. An unwritten custom to allow one cut for each hour taken has grown up but this is entirely optional with the instructor. The military heads desire the Senate to give them authority to compel attendance.
Plain Tales From The Hill
There's nothing like acquiring accurate information for one's self. One bald freshman heard that school would be dismissed during January and February because of a coal shortage. He went to the Chancellor to find out. The Chancellor asked him if he came from the Kansan. He said no. He merely wanted to find out. He felt that he could use a little vacation. The Chancellor told him.
Hint for Prom goers: Speaking of the weather, consider the freshman who went to the Hop. Said he, "The weather was so rotten I didn't have the nerve to make my girl walk home even though cabs weren't permitted."
One of the young men of the sophormore class served notice to his landlady before the holidays that he didn't want his room any more. Then he made arrangements with another man who had been staying in the same house to room with him and to engage another room for them.
Coming home from his vacation, this sophomore passed his old rooming house. He saw a light in his former window, and jumped to the conclusion that his roomie had taken it. So he went up stairs prepared to meet his old smoke soiled room and friend again. When he opened the door he dropped over in a faint. It was now inhabited by two girls.
They were returning in the black of mid-night from a wedding in a nearby town. When about eight miles from Lawrence an axle broke. And there they were, three women and a man, left alone in the black mid-night. Presently another auto passed them. They were friends. They went to go on the next crossing to turn around. To go back and were bemoaning fate, when out of the darkness a masked highwayman appeared.
"Hands up" came the command.
"Quit your foolin'" "came from a brass knuckle."
"Foolin'?" and the highwayman produced a gun that resembled the ones in use on the Western Front. One girl slipped her rings off in her gloves. Another commenced pleading for life. All were giving him their pocketbooks when the highwayman removed his mask. He was one of the men from the friendly automobile.
Variety of War Posters Exhibited In Ad Building
Work of Greatest European Artists Represented—Display a Part of Thayer Collection
European war posters are now on exhibit by the department of art on the third floor of the Ad Building. These posters are part of the W. B. Thayer Art Collection which is on exhibition.
Belgium, France, England, Serbia, Russia, and the United States, are represented in this collection. They picture Serbians fleeing from their country in advance of the Austrians, French women nursing a wounded soldier, and the work of the Red Cross in Belgium.
Practically all the great artists of Europe are represented. They include Steinlen, Fouqueroy, Brangwyn, Makchob, Neumont. Nearly all the great artists of Europe have given over their time to these posters.
The Quill Club will have its picture taken for the Jayhawker, at Squire's studio, at 12:30 o'clock Friday.
Hamilton Put Varsity Through Hard Practice Before Funston Game
Men Played Well Against Freshman Team in Final Scrimimage Last Night
Combat Soldiers Thursday
Jayhawkers Show Improvement In Form Since Holidays— Game Starts at 7:15
Eighteen Jayhawker basketball candidates went through a stiff scrimmage yesterday afternoon before the game with Camp Funston, tomorrow night in Robinson Gymnasium. The men showed plenty of spirit and the fact that the players who will start the first game have not yet been selected made the competition keen, and the play brim full of aggressiveness. Coach Hamilton drilled the candidates in signal work and passing. The Jayhawkers showed marked improvement over their form before the holidays.
Three Varsity combinations were used against the freshmen in fifteen minute scrimmages and in each contest Coach Hamilton's men were victorious. Captain Uhrlaub and Fearing held down the forward positions for the first Varsity squad and worked together in fine shape.
Fearing is fast on the floor and made several difficult shots from the corners of the court. Matthews was it center, where he is almost certain to start against Camp Funston, and Davis and Mandeville played the guards. Matthews shows promise of developing into a good free goal browser and with captain Uhrlaub to help him, it is certain that this department of the game should be well armed for.
The two guards displayed some of the best guarding that has been seen on Robinson court in the practice this season. It was almost impossible for the freshmen forwards to work the ball to the goal. Scrubby Laslett was not a good match, but will be on hand for the battle with the soldiers tomorrow.
Bunn and Miller, another pair of forwards, were used during the last half of practice and Uhrlaub was shifted to guard. This combination did not work so smoothly as the first, and Bunn played several easy chances to score through a poor skill shooting. Bunn played a heavy game and tossed several baskets.
The second Varsity combination consisted of Lonborg and Stephenson, forwards; Hoekikvm, center; Rice and Fink, guards. Lonborg led in the scoring. The third game was rough and slow.
The Varsity candidates will confine their practice today to goal shooting and passing and take no chances on injuries before the opening game tomorrow夜 at 7:15 b'clock.
Kansas Colleges Uphold Normal Life.During War
The Association of Kansas Colleges met in Topeka yesterday and passed several important resolutions, the most important of them being a resolution favoring the Permanent Income Bill for state institutions of higher learning.
A uniform method of granting credit to college students who have enlisted or are drafted into military service was adopted by the association on the plan used by the University in giving credit to its men. The war has affected all the colleges of the state and the percentage of decrease in attendance is about the same in all.
Income Bill, Continuation of Athletics and Social Life Favored at Meeting
Athletes were thought to be of such value that they should be continued during the war and the association recommended that they be made more general so that all students would be benefited. The social activities of the schools was discussed and it was decided that they were of value to school life and should be continued but that all unnecessary expense be curtailed.
The following office hours are announced for the University hospital: Each day from 8 to 9 o'clock, 11 to 12 o'clock, and from 2 to 4 o'clock. The afternoon hours are intended especially for women,