UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOLUME XV.
City Water is Unsafe Says Health Authority After An Investigation
Dr. Hyde Says Surface Water Contaminates Supply to Hill
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS MONDAY AFTERNOON, OCTOBER 15, 1917
Will Cut Off City Water
Students Should Insist That Boarding House Supply Pure Water
That is the statement given out by Dr. Ida H. Hyde, who was recently appointed by the University Health Board to investigate the University water supply. Several weeks of inquiry preceded the statement.
"I find that the continuous reconstruction work that has been going on in the last month has left the water in the mains leading to the water supply being subjected to contamination from surface drainage. A daily analysis has shown that the water has not improved and advice from the water company informs us that the water improves for at least two months."
ASK FOR SMAL APPROPRIATION
Dr. Hyde has recommended that immediate precautions be taken to safeguard the heal of the students. She has asked that Chancellor Strong make application to the Board of Administration for an emergency appropriation to pay for the buying of paper for the making of drinking cups. There is no provision this for the purchase of the cups and for the sanitary drinking fountains in the buildings are worse than useless. "The drinking fountains themselves are in bad shape," said Dr. Hyde. "I cannot recall when they have been cleansed and the fact that the water pressure has been low has let the lips of the ones who drink from the fountain be washed with the top of the fountain and the result is worse than a public drinking cue."
WILL CUT OFF CITY WATER
SAYS KANSAN SCHEME WORKS
SAYS KANSAS SCHEDULE WORKS
"I wish to commend the Kansasan for his work on the feasibility of the "home made" drinking cup," said Dr. Hvle.
An analysis of well water in student district has brought out the fact that a large percent of the wells are in no shape to furnish water to the students. Students also see that their boarding houses or the restaurants where they eat either boil the water that is served or use the distilled water. She says it is criminal for boarding house keepers to continue serving water on campus. University chemists will analyze all water that may be doubtful.
Dr. Hyde has recommended that the city water supply be cut off from the Hill (12%), given a chance to drink the distilled water from the containers in every building. The bill for distilled water last year was $1,400 and with this large amount expended Dr. Hyde believes the student should have a chance to have pure water to drink.
"The plan has worked well and has almost solved the problem of using the distilled water without the large cost that could not be met. The paper can be bought for about five cents for each 100 sheets and with a small appropriation for the emergency, we will have little trouble in getting over the emergency if the student will co-operate with us and make sure that the water they drink is pure."
Blackfriars Elect New Members
At a club meeting of the Black-friars Club the following new members were elected: Ruth Beverstock, Karl Brown, Anna Johnson, Elise Patterson, Gertrude LaCoss, Mignon Schell, Eva Hangen, Bonnie Lingenfelter, Florence Ingham, Ethel Ross, Catherine Johnson, Frances Hitchcock, Julia Seynhausen, Hester Jackson, Janet Wimmer, and Warren All new members are urged to be present at the meeting Wednesday at 7:30 o'clock, Fraser 213.
Enrollment of Thirty-five in Class
Basketball Talks
The Wednesday night debate class under Howard T. Hill has an enrollment of about thirty-five. The class is to study the study of the argumentative brief.
"All men who expect to come out for the Varsity basketball this year should be out Tuesday night," said Coach W. O. Hamilton today. "The chalk talks, explaining the system and signals of play will begin then."
W. A. Dill Begins Work Tutoring Young Cubs
NUMBER 20.
W. A. Dill, who is to fill the vacancy left by Frank Thayer as instructor in journalism, arrived yesterday from Portland, Oregon, accompanied by his wife and three children.
Mr. Dill left a position as telegraph editor of the Portland Oregonian to come to the University. At one time he was the editor of the Eugene Guard, a daily paper in the town where the University of Oregon is located. Previous to that he was editor of a weekly paper. He was graduated from the University of Oregon in 1908.
Campaign For Finance To Be Launched AtBig Y.W.C.A.Meet Monday
Expense Money For Entir
Year To Be Collected
During Week
Plans for the work of the finance committee of the Y. W. C. A. have been completed. On Monday, October 15 at 4:30 o'clock there will be a meeting of the working committee, during which an address will be given to the campaign assigned. The campaign will be Wednesday, October 17 and Thursday October 18, and will last two days.
Miss Helen McKinney, chairman of the finance committee, has charge of the plans. Fifteen girls have been chosen for captains. Each captain has nine helpers, making an entire working force of 150 girls. The names of all women on the campus are filed, and will be proportioned to the number of men making every woman on the hill will be approached and given the chance to make her pledge toward the support of the Y. W. C. A. this year.
The finances for the whole year will be provided for by this campaign and no more requests for money will be made. The money pledged during the campaign will go to the support of a foreign secretary in China, to the Y. W. C. A. headquarters in New York City, to the salary of the general secretary, to defraying the expenses of the Triennial Conference held in the Amsterdam, N.J., to commence an Amurrove, N.C., as the undertakings of the Y. W. C. A, this year are more serious than ever before, it is hoped that every woman of the University will do her best to aid the cause.
On Tuesday evening, October 16,
there will be a banquet for the entire
working force of the finance
committee. The appointed captains
Delia Fowler, Frederica Johnson, Margaret Young,
Mary Smith, Louise Nixon, Mabel
McNaughton, Nell Blurton, Dorothy
Sandberg, Lucille Nowilim, Lena Pittinger.
Elise Patterson, Julia Ken-
nard, Norvig Korabaugh, and Mary Burnett.
Journalism Jazz—New Member of Hop Family
Party To Become Annual Affair of Department of Journalism
Have you a date for the Journalism Jazz? It is the second annual dance given by the department of journalism and, according to the plans of the so-called last year's Bohemian Party. The Journalism Jazz is the representative dance of the department, as the Law Scrim is of the School of Law, the Soph Hop, the sophomores' annual party from Before the big party of that class.
The date set for the Jazz is Friday, November 9, making it the first big dance of the school year. Haley's four-piece orchestra will play for the dance, which will be in Robinson Gymnasium.
Plans for the party are still under way, according to Fred Rigby, president of the Associated Journalists. The social committee, composed of members from local media groups Holden, Alice Bowley and Mignon Schell, will meet this afternoon.
K. S. A. C. Journalist Will Talk
Chancellor Strong will be a speaker at the forty-second annual meeting of the Kansas State Historical Society in Topeka Tuesday. The officers of the society are Charles S. Gleed, president, and William E. Connelley, secretary. Mr. Gleed is a graduate of the University and a former regent.
Chancellor Will Speak
K. S. A. C. Journalist Will Talk Prof. N. A. Crawford, head of the department of journalism and instructor in printing at K. S. A. C. will speak before journalism classes Wednesday. Professor Crawford is chairman of the publicity committee of the State Council of Defense.
Statistics Show Seventy Percent Of Students Are Members Of Some Church
Out Of Enrollment Of 2,141 1481 Belong To Religious Organizations
Methodists Have Nearly 500
Presbyterians, Christians, Congregationalists and Baptists Rank Next
Out of the 2141 students enrolled at the University, 1481 or nearly seventy per cent are church members, while 426 or nearly twenty per cent give a church preference. This means that of the entire enrollment on the campus, more than over ten per cent are not church members or have no church preference.
METHODISTS HEAD THE LIST
The Methodists head the list with 491 members and bring a preference for that denomination. The Presbyterians are next in number with 279 members and 91 giving that church as their preference. The Christian Church is third with 171 members and give that church as their preference.
Of the 1481 church members, 774 are men and 707 are women. Of those giving a church preference 268 are men and 158 are women. One hundred eighty-five men and forty-nine women are not members of a church and give no church preference.
The Baptists have 115 members and twenty-nine preferences, the Congregationalists 113 members and seventy-eight preferences 81 members and 19 preferences.
THOSE TOTALING OVER 100.
The representation by determinations of the totaling total of one hundred or more members and preferences is as follows:
Methodist: men, 286, women 205; preferences, men 112, women 42; total 645. Presbyterian: men 134, women 145; preferences, men 63, women 70; preferences, men 78, women 93; preference, men 30, women 13; Total 214; Congregational: men 59, women 54; preferences, men 23, women 21; total 157. Baptist: men 57, women 58; preferences, men 17, women 12; total 144. Episcopalian: men 32, women 49; preferences, men 17, women 12; total 144. Other denominations with their total of members and preferences are: Catholics 94, Lutheran 60, Christian Science 37, United Brethren 17, Friends 14, Evangelical 12, Unitarian 10, United Presbyterian 8, Unitarian Presbyterian 1, Unitarian salutators 4, Reformed 3, Jewish Adventist 2, Gospel Hall 2, Allen Chapel 1, Agnostic 1, C.M.C. 1.
Fund Now Being Raised
For Fitzsimons Memorial
Committees Have Been Ap pointed to Solicit From Students and Faculty
Active preparations have been made for the raising of a fund to erect a memorial in honor of Dr. W, T. Fitzsimons, m'12 the first American officer killed in the war. Dr. Mervius of the School of Medicine, has added the tone Cooke, of Kansas City, to act as treasurer of the fund. Mr. Cooke will solicit subscriptions among the alumni of Kansas City. Doctor Suller also has requested Dean F. W. Blackmar of the Graduate School to appoint a member of the faculty, the students, an alumni of the University.
To Plan For Hallowe'en Party
Committees have already been appointed from the two classes of the School of Medicine in Rosedale. These committees are as follows Senior, Lailo Bresette, Elmer L. Whitney and Waldo Ocechsil; Junior, Lawrence P. Engle, Lawrence S. Nelson and D. D. Stofer.
Brown Speak To Women
Mrs. Edward and P. Brown, director of the Bureau of the Census, Southwest Division of the Cross at St. Louis, will tell the women of the University of Kansas Wednesday afternoon at 4:30 in Fraser Chapel what women's work is in the present war. Mrs. Brown is a college woman and believes the college women of America can help the Red Cross a great deal more than they are at present.
Mrs. Brown Speaks To Women
To Plan For Halloween Party
The social committee, composed of three members from Church and the Women's Student Movement Association, will meet with Mrs. Eustace Brown at her home, 1140 Mississippi Street, Monday night at 7 p.m.
The meeting is to formulate plans for the annual Halloween party.
Governor Capper Urges K. U. Students to Push Liberty Loan Campaign
Favors Interclass Athletics As Aid In Turning Out Soldiers
War Work Should Be Taken More Seriously Says Executive
Interclass athletics is the best means of encouraging physical development of students, says Governor Arthur Capper. Governor Capper's office oversees a view Sunday after being told of the University's efforts to give the men students a more thorough physical education and compulsory military training. Governor Capper oversees an educational Church Sunday morning.
Men Must Care For Health
Governor Capper said there were many ways students could help the cause of democracy without actually being involved. He urged thoughtfulness in small things, such as putting a 1-cent stamp on a magazine and giving it to a postman to be sent to soldiers. Many perversely throw such magazines away.
The governor said all students should take their college careers more seriously. They should exercise care to keep themselves in good physical condition, realizing that they may be called upon for war service if the struggle continues two or three years longer.
Governor Capper believes students should boost for the Liberty Loan Bond, and other patriotic work. He will speak to Kansas troops Thursday at a rally in Liberty Loan Bonds, and visit his non-profit stationed at the camp. In addition to making patriotic speeches Governor Capper is kept busy with food conservation work and other problems. Many people seek interviews daily in efforts to get friends or civilians involved in service. More than one thousand people called at the governor's office in the Capitol for this purpose. This does not include the letters asking his influence for exemption. The last few days he has been receiving about 100 letters daily from soldiers and members of the soldiers at Fort Silicon Valley complaining of the water condition there.
Men's Student Council Will Fill Vacancies On Athletic Board Wed.
Petitions Must Be Filed Before 6 o'Clock Tuesday—Men Fail to Return
One non-athletic and two athletic members of the Athletic Board will be elected at the meeting of the Men's Student Council Wednesday night. All candidates for these positions must file petitions, signed by fifty members of the Athletic Council, with the president of the council before 6 o'clock Tuesday.
Walter Havekorst President
Three vacancies on the Athletic Board will be filled at the regular meeting of the Men's Student Council Wednesday night. These vacancies are caused by the failure of a member to attend the Ennis Whitehead, to return to school. Two of the vacancies are for athletic members and any one who has received an athletic K is eligible for the office. The other vacancy is for a coach member and any holder of an athletic ticket is eligible for this office.
Petitions signed by fifty members of the Athletic Association must be filed with the president of the Men's Student Council by 6 o'clock Tuesday. Any person having a Student Enterprise Ticket or who has received an athletic letter is a member of the Athletic Association.
Name Halloween Committees
A committee from the Y. M. C. A. and Y. W. C. A. has been appointed as a social advisory committee to assist Mrs. Eustace Brown, adviser of women, with the plans for the Halloween party and other all-University parties this year. A meeting of this committee will be held some time this week. Plans are being made for the same number of parties as last year but they will not be as elaborate as previously.
Students Neglect Last
Typhoid Inoculation
About 225 men and sixty women have taken the inoculation for typhoid this year; however, a large percentage of the men have not returned for second and third inoculations. Hospital authorities urge those negligent ones to finish the inoculations. The men in the recent cases of typhoid in hospital, one woman is ill with typhoid and another case is suspected.
The advice given at the hospital is that all water for drinking purposes be boiled and that all students be inoculated.
Office hours at the University hospital are from 8:30 until 9:00 a.m. m. 11:00 until 12:00, and 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. Dr. Florence Brown-Sherbon will be in her office at the last mentioned hour.
Plain Tales From The Hill
The Entomology Club has a large and enthusiastic membership. Even after students have left the department they continue membership in the club. It meets every week. When anyone misses a meeting he has to bring a box of candy the next time. There are plentiful refreshments every meeting. The rush for members, the pledge and old students signed the pledge at a certain time or bring a box of candy if they didn't. And at the next meeting, when some of the new signers were absent, the club decided to send all the candy to Company M. Of course, the other members are patriotic, but——
Professor Haynes in geology class:
"Are there any examples of fossils to be found in the Oureal limestones used by Lawrence for building pur poses?"
Geneva Hunter: "Oh yes; we have lots of fossils over at the Ph Plhouse."
A Beta, who spent his vacation with his family, was presented with a large rattly box of potato chips by one of the girls back home" when he left. The Beta, who was coatt, and the train was crowded, but he thankfully crushed the box under his arm and thought how good those crispy chips would taste in Lawrence. The Beta, who was Lawrence and opened the box he found that it contained only corn flakes.
Prof. W. W. Davis: "I didn't bring all these books to class to read to you, Heaven forbid! I merely brought them so that you would come within at least twenty feet of your library building."
The freshman had been told that Phi Beta Kappa was the place where all good students went at the end of their college career.
"But how do you know when you make Phi Beta Kappa?" she asked. "Oh, they tell you about it, dear," quoth the learned senior.
This isn't subtle. It merely hapeened.
Professor Cressman (explaining the Roman calendar); "The matter of dates is a little hard to get hold of it seems."
Georgia Lindley (sotto voce)：“Yas,
that’s the boys all in the
‘emmy now’.”
Otto, the freshman, speaking to physiology prof. "What sort of food would you advise me to eat. They say fish is good for brain development—" with haste: "Under thosecircumstances, I would advise you to eat a whale."
Arl Frost knows a great deal more about English than he does about carrying bundles and babies. But he is a chivalrous youth, and when a man, loaded with both, implored his assistant, both he was coming down Thirteenth Street. He got the baby. Then ran for the car but missed it. They stood on the corner and waited twenty minutes for another. The baby realized that Jack more about economics than about babies, that is, the baby did. And Jack trade him for a bundle. Now Jack knows more about babies than he did.
This political game is some doings. Mentioning no names there is one president who has been bothered ever since election with requests for com-men. Deltt even want the chairmanships of the committee. Just the joy of being on the smoker committee or perhaps the get-acquainted committee. Come up to the president with a grin and a shake a mokke look and a request that they both would remember them when he was aching out the plums.
Great game.
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James Whitcomb Riley, the poet and the man, a lecture by Charlotte Hertz, tomorrow at 4:30 o'clock in Fraser Hall.
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Jayhawkers Romp Over Emporia Teachers in First Victory of Year
Olcott's Proteges Have Little Difficulty In Smothering Speedy Normalizes
K. U. Scored 5 Touchdowns
Normals Did Not Threaten Kansas Goal Line—Laslett, a Star
The Jayhawkers swept the Emporia Normals off their feet Saturday afternoon on McCook Field in the first home game of the season and won, 33 to 0. During the game the crowd had ample opportunity to judge the mettle of the team. The game was featured by long end runs by Scrubby Laslett, wide-wake left star, and Pringle's 27-yard pass to Lonborg, speedy right end, for a 30-yard gain and touchdown.
Two minutes after the first quarter had opened, Laslett broke through and grabbed the ball, which Tubby Vaughn, Normal right tackle had tackled seven yards to the first score of the game. Nettels kicked goal. In this run Laslett was aided by the excellent interference of the K. U. backfield.
Nettels kicked off forty-five yards to Welch, the heady quarter of the Normalites, who returned seven. Laslett broke through on the next play and threw Welch for a loss.
On the next play, big Tom Pringle started the Kansas offensive by smashing through the hole opened by the right side of the K. U. line for a 39-yard gain. Pringle continued to smash through the hole opening Nielsen and Foster. Pringle carried the ball over the remaining yard and Nettles missed goal when the ball hit the goal post.
After a feeble attempt at offensive, the Normals kicked, and Mandelve started another march down the field with a gain of sixteen yards. Foster followed with a twelve yard gain, and then with a fourteenth yard gain, his long flip to Lonborg who ran the remaining three yards to the third touchdown. Nettels kicked goal.
The quarter was much in favor of the Jayawakers. An 18-year run by Nielsen fell short of a ~touchdown when he fell ten yards from the goal line. A pass, Foster to Lonborg for seven yards was called incomplete because it was caught out of bounds. Nettels kicked off fifty-five yards and a few minutes later was taken out because of an early season injury received in practice scrimmages. Dennis went in. Two fifteen yard penalties held K. U. back at the start of this quarter, but Kansas
Soon after the Teachers had kicked off, Vaughn and Sharpe started the Normal attack, and a pass, Welch to Normals their first down of the game.
Paul Althouse, Tenor Opens Concert Course
His Program Includes Only One Foreign Song—the Rest
Are English
Paul Althouse, tenor for the Metropolitan Opera Company, will open the University concert course Wednesday, October 24. His program will consist of one foreign song and an abundance of others in genuine English.
This change to more English and less Italian will be universal throughout the course this year, and is expected to increase the attendance. The same is true for those in charge of the concert course to advertise the entertainment widely among the students. This year such extensive publicity has been abandoned, and the advertising is done by announced the numbers in previous years.
Tickets are now on sale at the Round Corner Drug Store and at the Registrar's office. The regular prices are $4.50 and $3.50, but students can pay less than $2.50 respectively. Thus, students can take eight concerts for $31 each. Students holding Fine Arts exchange tickets must exchange these for reserved seats at the Registrar's office, as they are listed at the Round Corner Drug Store.
Harry Crum to Mexico
Harry E. Crum, who was a student in the School of Engineering last year, is visiting in Lawrence with his parents for a few days before leaving for college. He is interested in geological and oil prospecting work for the Empire Oil and Gas Company.
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