UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOLUME XIV.
NUMBER 148.
KANSAS GRAIN FOR FOOD BUT NOT FOR BOOZE
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS, TUESDAY AFTERNOON, MAY 8, 1017.
Dean Olin Templin Asks Senator Curtis Not to Protect Liquor Interests
SPEAKS WELL OF KANSAS
Greatest Prohibition State Will Not Raise Grain to Fill Beer Vats
Condensation of the present course of Congress in placing higher taxation on intoxicating liquors and thereby guaranteeing the safety of the liquor business, was voiced by Dean Olin Templin, of the College, this morning in a letter to Senator Charles Curtis.
He calls attention to the fact that thousands of men and even women are leaving the universities and colleges of the country to work on the farm. Many of these students are giving up their college careers in order to keep the world from starving. He says "the only way to survive is the call of humanity and yet the brewers are permitted to continue wasting the huge grain crop of the country."
May 8, 1917,
Senator Charles Curtis,
Washington, D. C.
All over this country for weeks the deans of colleges and universities have young women, to go back to the farm threatening starvation. The situation has been accepted, as it has been reported, as extremely serious, and it has required by these thousands of young folks to be buried by these thousands of young folks who have made them. They are abandoning many forms of education and the increased usefulness and happiness which it would have brought them. The training they needed in the task in reconstructing a normal and paried society after this terrible prophecy properly, in order that the people might
His letter follows:
Each day that this has gone on the brewers and distillers have poured good grain into their vats. It is not unusual to see these young people will result in a product equal to that consumer regaining liquors. Worse than that, the time it takes for the distilled beverage to all those students can number is far greater than any sary business. We have plead with Congress to put an end to this cruel practice, the distiller's proposal to pay a tax on the distilled beverage that
Now I want to tell you that I can never unpredictably move more unpandemic danger than this. The people will not understand your constituent in Kansas are liable your constituent in Kansas are liable matter. They not only expect each other to behave differently in their duty—they are in danger of expecting it all too.
I am making this statement in the name of the thousands of young people who inhabit humanity, but who resent the continuity of a nonuseless system. Will you be so confident in your form of explanation, possibly intelligible in Washington, which I can understand?
Dean Butler Announces Program for Orchestra's First Appearance at the University
Respectfully,
OLIN TEMPLIN
ST. LOUIS SYMPHONY HERE
The St. Louis Symphony Orchestra will play for the first time in Lawrence, Thursday May 10, in the Robinson auditorium. The concert is given under the auspices of the School of Music, Miss Leonora Allen, soprano, and Charles Galagier, basso. The program is: Symphony No. 5, in E. minor.
Opus 64 ... Tschaikowsky
Lecture Notes ...
III. Valso: Allegro moderato
II Andante cantabile, con alcuna
Ilmena
IV Valle: Allegro moderato
IV Inale: Andante maestoso; AI le
alle valle:
Aria, Invocaiton, from "Robert
le Diable" Meygerben
M. GALLIANI
Suite, Lalla Rookh"...Krogee
Cavalcade
Dance of the Girls of the Pagoda
Wedding Festival
Wedding Festival Axio "Dougie is your" from
Ain, Déburs je tour from
"Louise"
Même avec Charpentier
Overture to "Tannhauer" ... Wagner
W. S. G. A. WILL GIVE MIDDY
DANCE AND PARTY SATURDAY
A real mildy dance will be given in Robinson Gymnastium Saturday afternoon by the W. S. G. A. The feature of the afternoon will be a series of stunts by the women in different rooming house districts.
A loving cup is offered to the district putting on the best stump. There will be music and "eats." Ten cents admission will be charged.
Kappa Phi Club presents its last open-door program of school year at 7 o'clock Wednesday evening in Myers Hall. Important meeting.
PROF. DAVIS IS GRANTED
LEAVE TO GO TO FT. RILEY
Prof. W. W. Davis, of the department of history, has been granted a leave of absence by the Board of Administration through Chancellor Strong and will leave soon for the Officers' Reserve Training Camp at Fort Riley. Professor Davis said this morning he expected to meet with students now and the fourteenth of this month. He has as yet received no definite instructions.
MID-WEEK DANCE FOR CO. M
Mr. Davis' classes in history will be discontinued, but the finals will be given the last week by members of the department of history.
An authorized benefit dance will be given tomorrow night in Robinson Gymnasium.
The University War Committee with the aid of the Women's Student Government Association, Men's Student Council and the Kansan are raising a war fund of $500 to be used as a company fund for Company M. The authorities have given their consent for a mid week dance because they are not willing that Company M—our company—shall suffer because of insufficient supplies and inadequate medical aid.
Do you, students and faculty of the University of Kansas, want the men who have voluntarily offered their services and perhaps their lives to their country to suffer because you would not contribute your share to the company fund?
Many demands have been made upon the faculty and students, but isn't this a time when those who remain at home must sacrifice if they are going to serve their country?
If you honor the University men who with sane determination and calm patriotism have joined the nation's forces and of course you do—make your date tonight for the authorized mid week dance even if you'll have to do without those eclaims and even if you have to burn the midnight wire in order to bone for the quiz next day. With your help Company M will be as well equipped as other companies.
Of course you'll be at the dance.
GREEKS WON'T MEET GREEKS
Fear of Defeat by Younger Frats Causes Veterans of Council to Cancel Schedule
There will be no more games in the Pan-Hellenic baseball league. At a meeting of the Pan-Hellenic council yesterday morning at the Sigma Chi ballroom a motion was passed canceling the remainder of the Greek baseball schedule.
Unstable conditions and the depletion of frat teams by withdrawals were assigned as reasons for the action but at the bottom of the affair were responsible for the older members of the Council have, for some of their younger associates.
Today there is considerable talk of calling another meeting of the Pan-Hellenic to reconsider their action. It is stated by the couches that the team is prepared, especially baseball and track would do more harm than good to the men.
Chancellor Frank Strong returned yesterday afternoon from Washington, D. C., where he attended the meeting of the National Defense Council in conjunction with the meeting of the League of University Presidents. He left early this morning for Topeka to attend a meeting of the Kansas branch of the Defense Council.
Dr. George E. White, president of Anatolia College, Marsovan, Turkey, was visiting his cousin, Prof. S. L Whitcomb, of the department of English, yesterday. Doctor White is on an indefinite leave of absence from the university devoting his energies to the work of the Armenian relief in America.
Chancellor Strong Returns
Eight of the Armenian teachers in Anaolia college have been massacred. All of Doctor White's private property in Turkey has been taken by the Russian government.lege buildings are being used as barracks by Turkish soldiers.
DOCTOR WHITE OF TURKEY
VISITS PROF. S. L.WITCHCUM
JULY SUNLIGHT HEATS WRITER'S IMAGINATION
Then is the Time When the Best Humorous Paragraphs Appear in the Papers
"Folks work better in summer than in winter," is the perfectly sincere statement of E. E. Kelley, who is not an advance agent for the summer and whose fellow Republican" who is lecturing to journalism classes today. He believes in summer school and has noticed that hot weather stimulates mental processes particularly in connection with writing, for he says that there is more snap in the paragrapher's mind in August than at any other time.
Mir. Kelley writes the editoria,
paragraphs for the Republican, and
his daughter sets the type. The rest
of the family help get out the
paper, and that is why the Republican
is listed in the "Newspaper Guide"
as published by the Kelleys. The
editor is raising a whole family of
newspaper people, and one of his
sons already owns a paper of his own.
It was purely an accident, however, that Mr. Kelley himself entered the field of journalism. Until he was forty years old he had never written anything. He taught mathematics and public school while intending of schools. Then suddenly he began to have ideas for stories, stories which he wrote and sold to Harpers and McClures. After this success he was ready to try running a country newspaper as soon as he found a good opening. His work was published in newspapers famous at present for the humorous paragraphs on his editorial page.
"It's easy enough to write them," he says. "I just go down to what we call the 'never-sweat bench' on the shady side of the National Bank and listen to the old boys talk. In half an hour I've heard enough wit and humor and philosophy to fill a column. Then I go back to the office and write it and attribute it to my Uniele like back in Indiana and print the story. It's the easiest thing in the world to do, especially in summer."
MEN ARE GUESTS OF HONOR
W. A. A. Will Entertain Stern Sex
Next Saturday At Informal
Dance
The W. A. A. is giving its "dress-up" party of the year Saturday night in Robinson Gymnasium. Of the series of parties given by the W. A. A., this is the only one to which men will be invited.
The affair will be a dance. During the first intermission, letters and cups that have been won during the year by various classes and individuals will be awarded by Mrs Charles Esterly. The juniors will be awarded the basketball loving cup. The swimming goes to the freshman class.
The dance will begin at eight o'clock and Haley will furnish the music. Dr. Dorothy Child and Mr. Mrs. W. O. Hamilton with chaperon.
Everybody in the University is invited to attend. Tickets will be on sale in Fraser Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday from 10:30 until 12:30 and of afternoons from 2:15 until 3:30.
Dean P. F. Walker, of the School of Engineering, will speak at the Woman's Forum, Wednesday afternoon, at four-thirty o'clock in Room 10, Fraser, on "Some Tendencies in industrial Development".
The relation of industry to war will be emphasized, and an opportunity to ask questions will be given at the end of the hour.
WOMAN'S FORUM TO HEAR
DEAN WALKER TOMORROW
John S. Worley, of the Valuation Board of the Interstate Commerce Commission, completed a successful series of lectures yesterday, when he talked in Marvin Hall on, "The Pre-Construction Regulation of Transportation."
All women of the University are invited.
"These lectures have been the inest thing of the kind we have had n the University," said Prof. C. C. Railway Engineering (department).
WORLEY COMPLETES SERIES
OF LECTURES TO ENGINEER
Robert Waldie and Frank De Armond, both e17, have accepted positions from the Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway Company for the coming year. They will work in Ft. Scott under the direction of B.J. McMahon and the professor of Railway Engineering at the University, who is now the chair of the Valuation Committee for the M, K & T.
Black Helmet initiation at the Sigma Nu house, Tuesday night at 8:30.
FAIR WEATHER GIVES MAY FETE PERMISSION
Providence provided favorable weather for the flowing robes of the Greek dancers, the silk and brocade of the French court, and for the rest in subsequent enquiries to cite which the Y. W. W. A. presenting this afternoon on McCook Field.
Annual University Pageant Being Held Today on McCook
The pageant was planned and directed by Miss Anne Gitens Y. W. C. A., secretary, assisted by committees from the college. Mary Govier is chairman of general arrangements committee; Ruth Daniels, costume; Virginia Lucas, publicity; and Itasca Hilsman, finance.
The fete this year is being given for the benefit of the Red Cross. Formerly the money was used for the support of the Y. W. C. A.
AIDS FOOD CONSERVATION
professor Sprague Calls Meeting o Faculty Members to Consider Resources in War Times
A meeting of faculty members from the different departments of the University interested in the conservation of our resources was called last week by Miss Elizabeth C. S. Sprague, professor of home economics. This meeting will be held at Miss Sprague in connection with her work on the State Defense committee
The state has been organized into county committees to work out the best plans of conservation in their districts. The work up to this time on saving and conservation has been unorganized and lacks a definite purpose. The meeting of the faculty members was to consider the best plans to make use of the work done and how to proceed in the future.
WILL TALK ABOUT GERMANY
Mrs. Con Hoffman, Just Back From Northern Empire, Will Tell of Prison Life Tomorrow
Mrs. Con Hoffman, wife of Con Hoffman, former secretary of the University Y. M. C. A. but engaged in work in prison camps in Germany will talk to University students and townpeople tomorrow afternoon at Chapel Her subject will be "Fourteen Months Experience in Europe"
Mrs. Hoffman has been in Europe fourteen months, just returning the last month. Of this time twelve of her spent in Germany with her husband.
The condition of prison camps, the food condition, the attitude of the Germans toward their Kaiser will be told by Mrs. Hoffman tomorrow. To help them remember the condition of the camps through the work of her husband who is in charge of the Y. M. C. A. Prison Training Camps in Germany. He is interned in that country and will not allowed to leave until the war is over.
FINE ARTS STUDENTS MAY ENTER CONTEST FOR
Prof. W. S. Hekking of the department of drawing and design has received notice of a painting contest to be held by A. Starterius & Company, of New York. First prizes to the department include 160 award-winning persons doing the best assigned work in art with the use of Oloe Tempera Colors.
For the best poster painted, a $50 prize will be given. This poster must be done in four colors, exclusive of black, and must conform with the proportions of a window card. The same amount will be given for the best work done in water color, and the best representative oil painting. These paintings will not be limited to any color or class.
Only three first prizes will be awarded and all approved works will be purchased by the Startorius company. Those wishing to enter the contest must submit their work, not later than May 31.
DEMAND FOR ENTOMOLOGISTS
GROWS MORE URGENT DAILY
Prof. S. J. Hunter, of the department of entomology, received a telegram from Cornell University asking for an entomologist for truck crop conservation. The pay will be from a hundred to a hundred and seventy-five dollars per month and all field expenses.
This will be the fifth man this year that has gone to Cornell from the University. No choice of men to fill Professor Hunter, he announced by Professor Hunter.
Miss Emma Kohman, c16, in the department of physiology, is now in charge of the physiology laboratory in the University of Chicago in the absence of the head of the department because of sickness.
COLLEGIATE ALUMNAE OFFER
SERVICES TO UNCLE SAM
A report by Dr. Ida H. Hyde at the meeting of the Lawrence branch of the Association of Collegiate Alumnae concerning the meeting of the national association which Dr. Hyde attended, was of especial interest because of the action of the organization and the 8,000 members to aid in the welfare in the military training camps of the country.
A motion by Doctor Hyde to offer a scholarship for a South American girl to study in some college in the United States also was adopted.
Plain Tales from the Hill
Not often do we inducte in morals. Bitch don't get by without a moral. Thusly?
And then she wondered why the bunch howled.
bunch howed.
Morat: "This may be the old Brummish stuff but you know quite often the other fellows troubles are quite as bad as your own."
Sister Brown to Sister Smith: "I ordered the tickets for the St. Louis Symphony but I gave them your name instead of mine for fear there would be confusion--my name is so awfully common."
And then the Symphony orchestra will advertise for which maybe we will be
"Oh, see the pretty brown cows on the golf links," squealed Miss Kansas City on her way up from Brick's this morning.
"Yes, aren't they sweet?" said Miss Wichita. "I wonder perhaps they are going to have part in the May Fete this afternoon."
Above is recorded syllable by syllable the talk of pretty ladies going to class. But maybe next year when all the men have gone to war these big town girls will have enjoyed a "close-up" of the dear sweet cute bovine with the soft brown eyes in their tending to countrial duties and in the performance of their bit.
AND WE ARE BONE-DRY
Ethics was the course. Olin Templin was the professor. Students were the listeners. Medium of Exchange was the subject just then. They had quoted, "Give unto Caesar what be good." Templin followed until with a sigh Dean Templin drew out a piece of money and fingled it on the desk.
From the rear of the room came the proverbial voice, "Beer-check."
John Binford is officer-of-the-day down at the Delta Tau house. The Delta Tau has installed a new flag pole on their front porch and J. B. is the mechanician in charge. Every member of the crew John's skull-cap as he pulls the cord that hoists Old Glory. Could aught be more patriotic?
Spring days are coming. We can feel it. In fact it is in the air. The Air Mete Fete says so. But what we started to say was that stallers are going to camp at the campus. Prof. Moore has a student in his history class who didn't know and didn't want to know what they were talking about. So he started that stall stuff by inquiring what Prof. Moore thought of the Joffre Hotel in Waseta City. Only had 15 minutes and "Was the meeting an interest one?"
"Yes, it was," replied the wise man of history with one squechl. "The Kansas City Star gives a very accurate account of the meeting. Next."
Folks do say some of the cutest things in class. And sometimes they say something that is cut out of class. This time it was H. Pegues. Down here in the Kansan office when copy isn't coming in very swiftly the bunch talks about newspapers. The bunch talks about newspapers. "That paper is what you could call one of these uplift papers, isn't it?" quoth Henry, le Senior.
Aw comon, canja see through that? Uplift. Derrick. Gawsh.
ORCHESTRA PROGRAM FOR RED CROSS CONCERT TONIGHT
The Presbyterian Student Orchestra program of twenty-five pieces gives its annual secular concert at eight o'clock this evening in the First Presbyterian Church. Admission will be free, but a collection will be taken for the Red Cross. The program: Overture, Poet and Peasant. Suppie Quartet from Rigololetto . . . Verdi Cornet solo, Goodbye. . . Tosti
Harold H. Lytle
Descriptive March, U. S. Navy...
Ailene Wilson
Harlond H. Lytle
Idyl, Glowworm ... Lincke
Dance of the Vases... Chaminade
Reading ... Selected
... H. H. Lytle
Selection, Faust ... Gounded
Quarter, Quarter ... Selected
Waltz, Brigit Bouquet ... Inventory
Overture, Light Cavalry ... Suppe
A Daily Letter Home—The Daily Kansan.
DANCE AND HELP MEN OF K. U. COMPANY M!!
Students Are Asked to do Their Share in Raising $500 War Fund
COUNCIL TO GIVE PARTY
Entertainment Will be in Robinson Gym Tomorrow Night —Shofstall to Play
"Shofstall will furnish the music and everything is arranged. The proceeds will go entirely to the fund that supports the university men who will soon be called into camp life," said Walter Havelkorset, president of the Men's Student Council this morning. "The men of the University are urged to make sure they raise the fund, and yet get the full returns for their money."
A dance will be given tomorrow night at Robinson Gymnasium for the benefit of the fund being raised for Company M. The date rule has been suspended for the dance and students may enjoy the party while at the same time they will be giving money to make the camp life of Company M, the University company of the National guard, more pleasant.
MUST RAISE $500
A 'und of $500 is being raised by the Student Council, the Women's Student Government Association, the Kansan, and Registrar George O. Foster. The all-University dance was announced for Friday night, but the date was changed to Wednesday and the date rule is suspended.
This fund was recently authorized by the War Bureau of the University to supply the needs of Company M. The demands on the government in the war have made it impossible that it will be impossible to furnish more than the bare necessities for camp life. Experience has shown that an emergency fund should be kept by each company. The men in it may need the assistance of the student body and it is necessary the students and faculty who stay behind help out.
BUY COTS AND BLANKETS
BUY COTS AND BLANKETS
Cots and blankets should be provided for the company. In case of sickness the men run the risk of injury. If a blanket is not a company fund. No athletic goods or other conveniences can be taken with the company if money is not provided for excess bargage.
Last summer athletic goods and a phonograph were bought and sent to the Lawrence companies at the border by the downtown merchants. This equipment proved to be a constant source of amusement and entertainment at the camp when there was little else to break the monotony.
SENIOR LAWS WILL TRAIN
Students To Take Bar Examination Before Entering Camp at Fort Rilev
Twenty-eight members of the senior law class have withdrawn from the School of Law to attend the training camp at Fort Riley. All but two of the number will take examination for admission to the State Bar at Topeka Thursday, May 10. They will be admitted to the state bar without a diploma if they pass the examination and present a certificate from the faculty recommending them for a degree.
The following will take examinations: George H. Beach, Harold F. Mattoon, Ivan A. Allen, Ralph R. Rader, L. Maynard Egann, Vernon J. Bowersock, Clifford W. Baldwin, Joe E. Gaitskill, Paul H. Friend, Aaron L. Piepburge, H. L. Miller, John P. Flinn, Ernest E. Blincoe, G. N. Murphy, A. Greewer, G. B. Mitchell, A. Hattier, Marcel M. Garland, M. Laken, Baker, E. Smith, Paul H. Sautter, O. H. Dittmer, A. B. Burch, W. J. Weber, John A. McLoughlin, andralp D. Sproull, Dick Small will take examination for the Missouri Bar and Kenneth H. Lett for the Oklahoma Bar.
"More than half of the senior law class has withdrawn to serve their country," said Uncle Jimmy this morning, "and it certainly cannot be said that they are not awake to the solemnity of the present situation."
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The first regular May convocation will be at 10:10 o'clock Friday morning, Mrs. Cora G. Lewis of the Board of Administration, and his pods will be shortened according to the usual schedule.
Frank Strong, Chancellor.
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