UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
NUMBER 124.
VOLUME XIV.
VOTE ON PADDLING QUESTION TOMORROW
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS, THURSDAY AFTERNOON, MARCH 29, 1917.
Students Will be Given Opporunity to Give Views in Daily Kansan Poll
OPEN FROM 8:15 TO 12:35
Professor Patterson Urges Voters to Give Question Serious Consideration
Voting Arrangements
Laws in Green Hall.
Engineers in Marvin Hall.
All others at halls on Campus between Fraser and Snow Hall.
Polls open from 8:15 a.m. to 12:35 noon.
Voters will be checked according to printed student directory—all others must go to registrar for certificates.
Votes to be counted at 1 o'clock in Kansan office under supervision of Ross Clayton, ac- tribute in i/ department of journalism.
Freshman ballots will be counted separately.
Men of the University will be given an opportunity to express their opinion on paddling tomorrow morning. Detailed arrangements for the balloting are summarized above. A copy of the ballots to be used, is printed on front page of this issue of the Kansas which is conducting the poll.
Final arrangements for the balloting were made at a special meeting of the Kaanan board last night. Dedicated members of the board composed of Vernon Moore, business manager, Robert Reed, news editor and Alfred Hill, editor-in-chief, worked in the auditorium at the Marvin hall booth, in Green Hall, and Hall at the Campus booth.
University men are asked to study the ballot tonight. They are asked to express their serious judgment in their voting. The results will be printed in the Kansan tomorrow afternoon.
In addition, the University Senate disciplinary committee which will meet Monday to discuss the question of a substitute for paddling, will be asked about their opinions, and will be asked to consider the expression of student sentiment.
DYKSTRA LEADS DISCUSSION
The chairman of the committee, D. L. Patterson, emphasized this morning the importance that the team of the University think carefully on how to respond to a situation might misunderstand a vote that does not represent real consideration."
Professor Patterson suggests that in other colleges the freshman cap tradition is enforced by other means than paddleing. He believes that the University can afford to try some substitute method, such as early mass meetings of the freshmen where representatives of the student council speak, and secure the co-operation of college leaders. The system of class contests to arouse class spirit might be tried as in Nebraska.
"There are a lot of the best friends of the University over the state who are going to work for the permanent income and other interests of the University." Professor Patterson decided down by any careless decision, said Professor Patterson.
Argue Merits and Defects of Compulsory Military Training and Industrial Service
Comparing the proposed plan for national compulsory industrial service with the plan of compulsory military training, Prof. C. A. Dykstra of the department of history enumerated advantages of the former plan before the International Polity Club in Fraser Hall last evening. Prof. W. W. Burke of the University was unable to be present therefore Professor Dykstra was asked to lead off in the discussion upon any subject concerning the present crisis.
That the constructive industrial plan embraces many advantages, economic and physical, was brought out in the discussion. Cement roads could be built, flood danger relieved, and America reforested. The physical average would be raised, people would be in national terms, and the nation would become more efficient through one year of national service for all.
The resignation of Kenneth H. Lott, president, was accepted, and a resolution was passed thanking Mr. Lott for his efficient management. Express. Clark Brewington, was chosen to resume his former duties.
CHORAL UNION WILL GIVE
CONCERT SUNDAY EVENING
The Choral Union will present Dubois' "Seven Last Words of Christ" Sunday evening, April first, in Robinson Gymnasium. The solibis will be Miss Alta Smith, Professor Downing and Ray Gafney.
This is the second appearance of this choral society which is composed of both University and local talent. The concert is free to all. The orchestra will be closed on that evening, allowing members to attend the concert.
TO SHOW WINNERS PICTURES
Announce Successful Candidates at Vanity Fair Dance
April 13
A novel way of announcing winners of the Vanity Fair contest has been devised by the managers of the Jayhawker, and will be used at the Beauty Contest. Ball to be given Friday, April 13. The scheme is that you stand on a slide behind the various winners and projecting them on a screen.
This dance was arranged solely for the purpose of announcing the winners of the girls' pieces, headed by Herb Gribble will play. There will be refreshments.
K. U. FOLLIES IS COMING
Cast Contains Forty Girls and Eight Boys, in Light Act Vaudeville Show
The 1917 K. U. Follies is coming April 12 with eight big vaudeville acts. Robinson Gymnasium will be the theatre. The cast contains forty feminine beauties and eight popular K. U. men.
"Frills, Trills, Thrills" is billed as the headline act of the Follies. It will be a revue of songs, dances and costumes. "Way Down Hawaii Way" offers a wied Hawi orchestra, dances and the famous Hula-Hula dance.
Next on the program comes, "Gold and Dust, a Dark Couple in a Bright Act." The Three Knot Sisters, Forget-me, Fow and Slip" follows; the Two Knots, Forget-me and Secret," The Raven Comedy Four," is all that the name implies.
"K and U" is the mysterious act. It is hinted this is the act Hartley played on Orpheum time. Helen Clark and Earl Metcalf will dance. D. L. Hartley, the Kansan poet, has written the next act, billed as "Three Characters in an Episode." Schofall's orchestra will play. The cast of characters will be announced Friday.
SHIP-LIZARD MAKES POR1
After 12,000,000 Years Naosau
rus Reaches Final Harbor in
K. U. Museum
One of the most interesting specimens of the reptiles which lived 12,000,000 years ago, has been added to the collection of the Museum at the University of Kansas. It is of the species of the Naosaurus Claviger, an almost unknown reptile. The specimen was found in western Texas recently by L. A. Curry while he and D. Vernon Doutht were on a collecting trip for the Museum. The specimen was named as the Naosaurus or "Ship-lidded" because of the remarkable development of the vertebral spines, which extend out of the back about two feet and have cross-bars like the rigging of a ship.
Only two other specimens of the Naosaurus exist. There is an incomplete vertebral column in the American Museum and a skull and a few vertebrae in the Museum at the University of Chicago. This specimen is therefore very rare and by far the most complete known.
The Naosaurus was a heavy-bodied reptile about nine feet long with a body similar to that of an alligator, with a head a fifth as large.
This reptile was the last of his line, although there are several of his ancestors preserved which show the gradual development of the spines. These spines allow him, as the character of his teeth show that he lived on herbs or small game. Once in an awhile evolution goes backward instead of forward and produces a specimen like the Neosaurus, it is the invertebrate in the over-developing of structure.
The Weather
The specimen is on exhibition in a case in the west end of the north room of the Museum. It will not be mounted at present as the University of Chicago has offered to give other fossils for it.
Generally fair tonight and Friday.
Winter in north and west portions
where temperatures are 40°.
All men wishing to try out for the tennis team call Ailey Cowgill, Bell 385, some time this week. Appointments will be made at that time.
COLLEGE FACULTY SAYS NELSON MADE STAR AN "NO" TO DEAN BUTLER ATTORNEY FOR PEOPLE
Takes Exception to Mistaker Announcement Circulated by School of Fine Arts
F. A. STUDENTS TO FRASER?
Proper Disposition of Availabl Building Funds Is Now In Question
Question
Because of the printing of 6,000 slips headed "Important Announcement," signed by Harold L. Butler, dean of the School of Fine Arts, that housed many rooms and twenty practice rooms in the new $225,000 Administration building, petitions yesterday were started among the college faculty members suggesting that the school be used as based in the south wing of Fraser Hall.
"This will be the largest and finest building on the campus. In it the School of Fine Arts will have more than thirty class rooms in the basement there will be three rooms for the use of students.
A copy of the "Important An nouncement" follows
"The School of Fine Arts at the State University announces that the 1917 session of the State Legislature has appropriated $225,000.00 for the erection of the new school building and that as soon as it can be completed the School of Fine Arts will be housed therein.
DRESS-UP WEEK A FORMALTY
"This will mean that the University of Kansas will have the finest School of Music and Art in the Middle West. With a faculty of sixteen specialists, with thorough and well co-ordinated courses in all branches of Music, Drawing, and Painting, Design
Ming, and Painting, Design
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National Week Will Get Only Passing Mention on Mt. Oread
Dress-up Week is coming. It starts Saturday, March 31 and lasts until April 7. During this week the United States is planning upon dressing up right. On Easter Sunday if the United States has any more new clothes to wear it may spring them. For Spring it is here.
Nell Houston, c16, died yesterday afternoon in a hospital in Topeka following an operation for appendicitis, which he last Sunday. Miss Houston had interned to the University for the summer session to finish the work for her degree.
Mary Nicholson will spend a few days this week at the home of her grandmother in Quenemo being called there by her grandmother's illness.
This Dress-Up Week is a national institution originated by the clothing manufacturers. In large cities the merchants have special music and displays and give away flowers during the week. Everyone parades the avenues with the new clothes. Those new kinds of greens and blues and blues in coat colors for women and worn during this week and the new overcoats and hats and nobby shoes are originally worn during this week. At least this is the way Dress-Up Week is observed in the cities.
Fred Trigg Airs Big Paper's Policies at Sigma Delta Chi Meeting
K. U. has its dress parade every day but folks don't make much of it. As soon as something new is put on downsweat in the world of men's clothing, he stock out and wear it on the Hill. The women of the University do the same way with clothes intended for them, there isn't much left for this Dream. Week but it will be held anyway and K. U. is supposed to observe it.
SUPPORTS NO CANDIDATE
Nell Houston Dies in Toneka
Star Considers Principle and Not the Man in Political
Anecdotes of the late Colonel W. R. Nelson, of the Star, and of the last twenty-three years of politics in Kansas were told at the meeting of Migma Delta Chi, honorary journalism fraternity, by Fred Trigg, editorial writer and political reporter on the Star.
Race
"No man ever entered a political race as a candidate with the assurance of the support of the Kansas City Star", Mr. Trigg declared. "It has always fought for a principle, and never for a man. Mr. Nelson often said, 'I ride with any man as long as he goes in the right direction; it makes no difference to me whether he drives a donkey or an elephant."
WAS FRIEND OF LABOR
Mr. Trigg told of his first big assignment on the Star. "I had been on the paper about six months, when I was summoned into Mr. Nelson's office. He told me to go to Kansas City, Kansas and do everything but live there. Before going Mr. Nelson warned me the Star for any thing short of municipal ownership but, after seeing people over there cooking with mud, washing in mud and drinking in water, could see no way out but through电缆 on government," told Mr. Nelson that, and he replied, 'Don't you know, I had reached that conclusion myself.' That assignment to Kansas City, Kansas, was the first I ever got from the Old Man, and I am still filling it."
"Colonel Nelson was a man of the broadest understanding, the deepest sympathies, the greatest open-mindedness and at the same time the strongest convictions, I have ever known. He was a friend of the peo- ples of nursing men and women. And it was him that beheaded the Mr. Nelson made of the Star an attorney for everyone who paid ten cents a week for it."
PROTECTED HIS REPORTERS
If the Freshman Cap Tradition is to be continued-
Doctor Mathews formerly was editor of "The World Today" and is the author several books. He gave a series of lectures at the University several years ago. In 1907 he delivered the Haverford Library lectures.
Mr. Trigg told of Colonel Nelson's advocacy of a commission of equity, which should settle all disputes regarding damages in cases of accident and between employers and employees regarding employers' liability. "Mr. Nelson had a holy fear of the courts," Mr. Nelson said. "We have favorite admonitions to his men was, 'If you go into court, the sheeriff take you here.'"
By paddling.
"The United States and the Orient" is the subject of the lecture given by Shailer Mathews, dean of the Theological School of the University of Chicago, at Fraser Hall at 4 o'clock has traveled in the Orient and is intimate with our relations in connection with the Far East.
Colonel Nelson never broke faith with a reporter. A delegation of bankers and business men at one time protested vehemently and at length against the attitude they declared some Star reporters had taken in misrepresenting the conditions of a police utility, Mr. Nelson listened to them patiently, for a time, and finally interrupted with, "Gentlemen, do you think I employ liaisons on my paper? I would rather believe any one of my reporters than any banker or railway president in the city."
HOW SHALL IT BE ENFORCED?
DR. MATHEWS LECTURES ON UNITED STATES AND ORIEN
Mark X in this square if you pose the Freshman Cap Tradition.
AFTER SHOWING YOUR PREFERENCE ABOVE
By some other method.
HAVE YOU ANY SUGGESTIONS?
What do you think of "regulated paddling" (abolishment of gauntlet,
definite size of paddles, etc.)
Plain Tales from the Hill
Colored Slips for Freshmen Vote—White for Others.
Or have you any constructive plan to offer to take the place of paddling such as some form of athletic contest between freshmen and sophomores? State your ideas briefly;
KAW RIVER AUTHOLOGY
KAW RIVER AUTHOLOGY
My name is K. U. Chapel services.
I died last year.
Nearly twenty persons saw me nec
ence.
The choir was always faithful.
The speaker never failed to come.
The janitor sometimes came in
When the weather was freezing cold
But, in the seats lounged a few
meld last year.
Nearly twenty persons saw me pass.
Take heed, O beloved ones on the Hill!
Never have a chapel without an audi-
stargillin
Sleepy fraternity and sorority goats.
George Fitch in his palmest days never invented a more amusing stunt than that pulled off this morning by the laws, when they played a practical joke on two of their number—and on the landscape artists who are now so busily engaged in tearing up the sod on the campus.
Two graves were moulded from the soft dirt; wreaths of stones in imitation of flowers were placed thereon; and at the head of each an inverted dance poster, tacked to a stick, was placed as a tombone.
Needless to say, there is much sympathy for little Dick Small and Joe Jenni Gaikiski, whose untimely death was boarded on the imitation-marble slabs.
And, needless to say, both of them will probably be walking around the campground, saying in the classic words of Mark Twain: "The report of my death, etc."
Major Cole, c'01, of the U. S. army medical corps located at Fort Sam Houston, Texas, has sent some specimens of parasites of man to the department of bacteriology to be used in the parasitology class.
Fair co-ed: "Surely looks like war. Just got a letter from Montana which says that the girls are organizing a red cross society, and they have been to a Red Cross ball, be asked to several benefit parties by the local company, and there is a benefit bridge party for the organization that day."
Although the electricians had charge of the moving picture "King of the Road," which was presented in Fraser Chapel last night, they found that he have George D Vope, a civil engineer, operate the motion picture machine.
The campus-cutting fences are cutting with a vengeance now. Why not? In a day or so there will be no lawns left to cut across—only gardens.
Students who are quarantined in the University Hospital on account of smallpox and scarlet fever break the monotony of their confinement by using words with students passing among their little third floor window.
Probably one of the strangest sights to be seen on the campus at night is a large class of astronomy students gazing heavenward under the starry sky. And Professor Stouffer has a strong voice and is an interesting speaker.
The poor abused laws will have to leave their play grounds in front of Green because of a large flower which might dug at their favorite loafing place.
"As a result of not having civilian's training, ten thousand Frenchmen are laying beneath the sod today in France."—Preparedness Sneaker
Military Training Camps may teach Rookies democracy and patriotism and the use of the Springfield, but they don't pretend to go in for past participles, sentence structure, and such insignificant details.
Watch for the glad smile, the hearty hand-shake, and the button-hat, a combination that is sure sign that the spring election will be here soon.
RETURNS THOMPSON TO K. U.
Students' Petition for Return of University Pastor Granted
by M. E. Conference
The Rev. Mr. Gordon B. Thompson was returned to his charge as student pastor of the University of Kansas by the Kansas Methodist Conference at Topeka Tuesday. More than 200 changes were made by the conference, but all three of the Lawrence ministers were returned.
MRS. BROWN LEADS NIGHT RAID ON DOWN TOWN PUBLIC DANCE
The regard of the students for Mr. and Mrs. Thompson's work with them resulted in a strong petition to the governor asking that Mr. Thompson be returned.
That the feeling is mutual, Mrs. Thompson showed in her talk yesterday before the Kappa Phi Club, an organization of Methodist women in the University. She said, "There is no place in the world we would rather be than here at the University of Kansas."
Men—be sure and vote tomorrow.
Adviser of Women, With Committee, Finds Violators of W. S. G. A. Rules
MANY MAKE HASTY EXIT
Names Are Known But fo. Presend They Are Being Withheld by Request
RULES TO BE ENFORCED
First Strong Arm Squad at Kansas for Years
In the vain hope of finding false the reports of students attending the Wednesday night dances at Ecke's hall in violation of the University Senate and W. S. G. A. rulings, a committee from the Women's Student Council accompanied by Mrs. Eustace Brown, adviser of women, and the faculty of the faculties advisory committee, appeared suddenly on the dance floor last night and found a number of University students, both men and women dancing.
When the first warning was given that the adviser of women and the W. S. G. A. were at hand there was a mute scramble for the fire escape bridge, which stood on the floor and assumed attitude chalance, pretending not to notice the presence of the disciplinary authorities, evidently hoping to go unnoticed. A few of those who made a hasty exit by the fire escape were not caught, but others were recognized before they got out of the light.
NAMES WERE TAKEN
The names of all of those who were recognized were taken, and their cases will probably be brought up for consideration by both the University and the Women's Student Government Association, inasmuch as the rules of both bodies have been broken, the first in regard to attending a public public, and the second in having a full night date.
"We could see nothing wrong about the dancing or the crowd last night," she said in an explanation the visit. "However, in some cases coming to us for a long time that the rules were being broken, and a recent report that the dances were conducted in a strictly correct manner fenced the W. S. G. A. to investigate."
CASE DEMANDED ACTION
the W. S. G. A. They would not give to act of policewomen in hunting out students who choose to break the University disease班. The W. S. G. rules. This is the first time that I have done this thing, but the pressure in this case demanded the action that was taken."
The committee also investigated a舞 in F. A. U. Hall that was being given by a club of town people. A report had come to the attention of the committee that these dances were being attended regularly by students. It developed, however, that this was a strictly closed dance, given usually on Tuesday evenings. No students were in attendance at this dance.
NOT TO CONSIDER CASES SLIGHTLY
It is probable that the women whose names were taken will be dealt with more severely than the men. The women are under the rule of both the Executive and the Disciplinary Committee, while the women will have to account only to the family committee. Just what steps will be taken towards disciplining those who attended the dance would not be mentioned by either Mrs. Brown or the members o the W. S. G. A.
Miss Mina Clare Huffman, president of the W. S. G. A., being out of town, was not a member of the committee which did the investigating, two seniors and a freshman being the members of the Council who acclaimed Mrs. Brown. The names of the student mentors to the committee and the other faculty members have been withheld at the request of the K. S. G. A. They would not give out the names of the students who had been caught at the dance.
Extent of Electricals' Holiday
The Student Branch of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers will have their annual holiday and accompanying celebration tomorrow. The school of Engineering announces the arrival of the 8:30 and 9:30 classes to meet as usual. At the close of the 9:30 period the classes in the electrical department will be dismissed for the rest of the day. Students in the building receive mathematics and physics may be excused by instructors. The instructor may refuse to excuse the student however, if his work is unsatisfactory.