UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOLUME XIV.
NUMBER 123.
FRED TRIGG EXPLAINS PLACE OF NEWSPAPERS
Paper Must Lead Community Says Editorial Writer of Kansas City Star
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS, WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, MARCH 28, 1917.
"The big problem of the newspaper today is how best to serve the community in which it is printed," raid Fred C. Trigg of the Kansas City Star in a talk to a class in newspaper problems and policies this morning "It must be the wateenman of the trench, holding its head up to see the dangers that threaten the community and to warn the citizens of
PRAISES DAILY KANSAN
Assures Journalists That University Paper Would Go In Any Town
MUST GIVE TO COMMUNITY
MUST GIVE TO COMMUNITY
The time has passed, continued
Mr. McKaggle, who can be startled to boom a community, a certain individual or political party and still exist. "It must always give back to the community what it takes from it, or, like the unfertilized farm, its field will be worn out and the land is lost."
"A newspaper should always be a little in advance of the rest of the community on questions relating to reform, but it must be careful not to get so far ahead that the situation will be that it will lose its influence as a leader."
LIKES JOURNALIZED
He filled the newspaper game when there were no schools of journalism. He learned the business from actual experience, but he thinks schools are "bully good things" and his advice to anyone going into newspaper work is to take the University course, for example, to get the preference over the others; this saves the papers the expense of training its men itself.
Mr. Trigg is an experienced man in the newspaper business, having spent practically all his life in it. The first years of his newspaper work were spent in newspaper offices in Kansas. Ten years ago he went to the Kansas City Star. He is now a reporter on the Star, but does a considerable amount of editorial writing. All men connected with the news and editorial departments of the Star, except the head editors are called reporters.
"The Kanas is a model paper," Mr. Trigg said, "and it has the right ideals as well as ideals of journalism. I do not say that they are important, but because I think that the paper would be a success in any town it was tried in."
SHAILER MATHEWS TO TALK
Authority on Theology and Ethics Lectures In Fraser Hall Tomorrow
Shaler Mathews, dean of the Theological School of the University of Chicago, will lecture on "The United States in Postwar" in Fraser Hall tomorrow afternoon.
"Doctor Mathews is a forceful and pleasing speaker," said Prof. A. M. Wilcox this morning. "Several years ago he gave a series of lectures here. Large crowds attended the lectures, and his lecture tomorrow will undoubtedly draw a crowd. Since Doctor Mathews has been dean of the Theological School at the University of Chicago it has been ranked the three best in the United States. Few speakers will be better qualified to speak on the subject he has traveled and studied in Japan. He is the author of several excellent books, 'The Social Teachings of Jesus,' 'The Gospel of the Modern Man,' and 'The Messianic Hope in the New Testament.'"
For eight years he was editor of "The World Today." He went with Dr. Sidney L. Gulick to Japan as a representative of the churches of the United States. In 1907 he delivered the Haverford Library lectures.
GEOLOGY CLASS TO STUDY
FORMATIONS IN COLORADO
A new course comprising five weeks' work and five hours credit will be offered by the department of geology this summer open to men students only. The course provides instruction in geological surveying, the interpretation and mapping of geologic structures, the identification of geologic formations and horizons and the study of minerals and ores of some of the more important mining districts in Colorado.
The party will leave Lawrence for Denver July 11. All students who are interested in this trip should write or call on Prof. W. P. Haynes of the geology department as soon as possible.
HELEN TOPPING'S DANCING
CLASS WILL GIVE RECITAI
Miss Helen Topping, f'a16, an nounces a recital for her students in classic, interpretive, and Greek dancing at the Bowersock Theatre the middle of May. Miss Topping is well remembered for her heroes and for the University. She has been conducting a school in Lawrence since last September.
Miss Topping and her pupils will bassisted in their recital by Ray Gaffey, tenor soloist; James B. McNaught, solo dancer; and Margaret Pettibone, a classic dancer of the Kansas City Ballet School.
INTRODUCE CHECK SCHEME
Will Do Away With Crowding for Wraps at Soph
Hod
No longer will students, attending parties in Robinson Gymnasium, have to crowd and push to get their hats and coats after the dance. Kenneth Bell, manager of the Soph Hop, has devised a means by which men may get their wraps without checks. He's also placed around the track above the floor in numbers that assure the doing away of all unnecessary congestion.
"Tickets have been selling fast this week," says Manager Bell. "The idea of the thirteen-piece orchestra appeals to students. Also the girls are showing a willingness to pay their own dues that is gratifying."
K. U. WOMEN STAY MARRIED
Only One Divorced Woman Among Three Graduated In Home Economics
Among the 736 graduates of the department of home economics in the University of Kansas, 165 are credited with having married and only one has been divorced.
Other universities show the same absence of divorces, and the statistics gathered by the Purdue Exponent show that this course is evidently instrumental in turning the minds of students in the direction of home-making.
Figures for several American universities are:
Grads. Married. Divorc.
Illinois ... 305 73 1
Colorado ... 144 64 0
Purdue ... 185 53 0
Penn State ... 68 8
Wisconsin ... 155 31 0
S.Dak. A.C. 193 116 1
N.Dak. A.C. 98 22 0
Kansas ... 736 165 1
ANTI-WAR TEACHER TO WED
Kansas City Woman, Recently Criticized for Statements, to Marry K. U. Man
Miss Leonora Warnock, the Kansas City school teacher who was censured so severely a few weeks ago for writing anti-enlistment paragraphs on the blackboard in her room school, is to be married to a former K. U. student, Raymond I Moore of Kansas City.
The Weather
Mr. Moore was enrolled in the University last year but did not come back for his third-year work. He has been associated with Miss Warneson for a number of years in the labor movement in Kansas City.
STUDENTS FORM SOCILOGY
CLUB FOR RESEARCH WORR
The Club will meet every week, probably Wednesday evening from seven to eight o'clock. The purpose of the organization is to put sociology students in touch with opportunities in other lines of work than teaching, as chances for teaching sociology in high schools are limited.
Undergraduate students of the department of sociology organized a Sociology Club at their meeting in Administration Building yesterday after a meeting of the elective president and Ellis Starrett, c19, theory of the organization.
EIGHT SCHOOLS ADOPT
WILLIAMS' BOOK AS TEXT
"Design of Railway Location," the text written by C. C. Williams, professor of railway engineering, is receiving some exceptional recognition about the middle of February, and in thirty days it has been adopted by the following schools as a text: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of California, University of Michigan, Union University, University of Colorado, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, and the University of Kansas.
Fair tonight and Thursday. Warmer in extremes southwest portion tonight.
Several other schools have experienced adopting this book in the near future.
ELECTRICALS GATHER FOR ANNUAL MEETING
Ninth Annual Session of Institute Attended by All K. U.
Engineers
The ninth annual joint session of the Kansas City and University branches of the American Institute of Industrial Engineers is being held here today.
All electricals are dismissed from classes to attend the tenth Annual Meeting of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers. The morning session opened at 10:30 o'clock and the meeting will continue all day, ending at six o'clock at sike o'clock in pictures at eight o'clock in Fraser Chapel.
Dean Walker was followed by C. H. Taylor, of the Railway and Lighting Division of the Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company, of Kansas City. He read a paper on "Geared Turbine Units." His talk was illustrated with blue prints which he termed "The Passive Propulsion of Ships" was the subject of a talk by C. R. Copp, a senior in the department.
The meeting was opened by P. F Walker, dean of the School of Engi-
The afternoon session of the meeting was opened by a talk on "The Manufacture of Nitrogen from the Air," by Prof. H. P. C.ady, of the department of chemistry, J. T. Skinner, manager of the Kansas City branch of the Electric company, talked on "Public Utility Service." He was followed by F. B. Uhr, manager of the Kansas City branch of the Western Electric company, who talked on "The Progress of Electrical Development." The afternoon session closed with monologue from Chapel of the Schechtendy Works of the General Electric Company.
A banquet will be held in Robinson gymnasium at six o'clock tonight. A. S. Landsdorf, dean of the School of Engineering, of Washington University at St. Louis, will make the address of the evening. His subject will be "The Heating of Transformers."
Twenty-five Women Will Train for Rescue Service in
After Professor Langdorf's talk, the meeting will adjourn to Fraser Chapel for a last general jollification meeting of the day and to see "The Tale of the Road" in the picture drama of the General Electric Company.
FORM RED CROSS CLASSES
War
While the stars and stripes float over Fraser Hall, the Red Cross banner has appeared on the bulletin board of the women's side of the gymnasium. Twenty-five women have signed as intending to enroll in the courses which will qualify them for field service in case of war.
The membership of the League of Municipalities was increased during February to one hundred and fifty-two cities. Homer Talbot, secretary of the league, was appointed a member of the committee on state municipal leagues of the National Municipal League for 1917.
"Every new cabinet man will be required to go to the spring Y. M. C. A. conference at Manhattan, March 30, 31 and April 1," said Dick Wedell this morning. "This conference will mean much to new officers, because it will consider in detail important problems in Y. M. C. A. work."
CABINET MEN REQUIRED
TO ATTEND CONFERENCE
The work does not entail an obligation to serve in time of war. It is purely for the purpose of training women so that they will be qualified to serve if they choose. They may be hired out "somewhere" comes. The instruction is free except for a fee of one dollar to cover supplies.
Two classes, one in first aid to the injured, the other in elementary hygiene and care of the sick, will be given. Dr. Dorothy Child will teach students the nursing class, trained nurse, will give the other course. The latter course will qualify students to be nurses' assistants in base hospitals. The classes will meet once a week on Tuesday and Thursday night at seven o'clock. In case there will be volunteer work in preparation of surgical supplies.
A Daily Letter Home—The Daily Kansas.
Talbot Receives Appointment
Among the most prominent leaders secured for the conference are Dr. Ozora S. Davis, lecturer and author; George O. Foster, Registrar; H. L. Graham, and Dick Edward, a social service expert of New York City.
MILITARY TRAINING IS POPULAR WITH STUDENTS
E. DeWitt Gordon Explains Work of Citizen-Soldier Movement
Movement
The interest of university students in military training was shown at a lecture on "Military Training Camps" by E. DeWitt Gordon in Fraser Hall yesterday afternoon. Many remained after the lecture to ask questions and to give their names that further information might be sent them.
"The training camps want men who are big enough to lead other men," said Mr. Gordon. "The government can always get any number of men, but it is a different matter to get trained men."
"The citizen-soldier movement spread over the United States last year and 18,000 civilians were trained by regular army officers. The value of this training is the value of this training and it now defrays the expenses of transportation and camp life in addition to furnishing a uniform and equipment to all who enter the military. It is an obligation, after his training other than he was previously.
"Millionaires and laborers work and march side by side in these camps, and you can't tell them apart. The camps stand for discipline, and the training the rookies receive will help them in any civil pursuit. You're going to be a powerful pounding in the training while other gain. All come out physically fit."
Men from the Kansas district between the ages of eighteen and forty-five will train at Fort Riley this summer.
Newspapers Raise Chorus of Approval of Indian Dances by K. U. Professor
ST. LOUIS PRAISES SKILTON
Prof. Charles S. Skilton returned yesterday from St. Louis where he was guest of honor at the meeting of the American Guild of Organists of which he is a member. He翎 in the march of the Messiah Monday evening.
At the pop concert given by the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra Sunday Professor Skilton's "Two Indian Dances" were played and were recognized by the Louis newspapers as insightful and clearly the favorites of the program."
The Cheyenne War Dance was characterized by the Post-Dispatch as "pulse stirring—more rousing music would be difficult to imagine and the audience insisted upon hearing it twice."
Linguists and Artists May Be Housed in Proposed Addition Next Year
The dances were called by the Republic "an exceedingly interesting number showing what an up-to-date culture is like, and the themes of the aboriginal American."
"A novelty, two Indian dances, by the American tone-poet Charles S. Skilton," said the Daily Globe, "were a positive contribution to the composer from his box to the stage where he bowed his silent acknowledements."
Plans for the use of class room space in the addition to the Administration Building which will be erected this summer will be 422-8225. The legislature were considered by the college council yesterday.
PLAN USE OF AD BUILDING
Although there is no auditorium in the University capable of caring for more than two-thirds of the students this year for such a purpose. The feeling has been expressed by members of the faculty that the next two or three years will see a suitable structure public gatherings at the University.
COMMITTEE INVESTIGATES
STATE GRADUATE CREDITS
The language departments will probably be moved into the new building when it is completed. The school will attend to the School of Fine Arts, it is planned.
Heads of the Kansas Normal schools and the committee on affiliations held a meeting in the Chancellor's office today. Prof. A. S. Olin of the School of Education submitted a report giving the survey by a committee which visited the Normal schools of the state.
This committee is to investigate and make a report on the advisability of giving credit to Normal graduate colleges and the University of state colleges and the University.
Plain Tales from the Hill
WEEKLY PRIMER LESSON
Installation was held for the new Y. W. C. A. cabinet at the regular meeting in Myers Hall, Tuesday afternoon at 4:30.
Is this a barrel stave? No, no, it used to be that but it's a freshman paddle now. What is a paddle? A paddle, children, is used to rule freshmen. It controls the seat of government. But, boys and girls, you are too young to know such things. Listen, would you like to know how it feels to be governed by a paddle? Some "day, go out to the barn and select a big, handsome, dark-eyed mule, whose head is pointed north. Get out and head to the south. Then tickle the big, handsome, dark-eyed mule with a pin. No one will care, for it is highly elevating thing to do. It will please the mule and maybe he will caress you with his darling hoof.
Frank McFarland is a “rotten ump” according to Adrian Lindensey. Leefty Sproull says he is a “robber.” Others say he is an “impostor.” But seeing that no two of the accusers can agree in their remarks of his ability, Frank McFarland is a first of all amp. He will have to give up the position now, however, as his injured finger has healed, and he can get back into the game.
Philosophy of a stude after he has been failed for dishonest work; the reason hath no student this; that he give up his grade for his honor."
A ditch is being dug just east of the Kanan office to repair a broken water main. Yesterday evening Darald Hartley was seen down in the ditch talking and gesticulating. A group of cubs stopped to listen. "Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him well," soilolized Hartley.
It was a good presentation of the grave scene from Hamlet.
Work as a sign artist, as steward of a club, as care-taker on Hamilton Field, as a janitor in Snow Hall, and as a track star on the track team in addition to seventeen hours of college work are just a few of the things that keep Floyd Welch, c'19, busy.
The K. U. Follies this year will offer one act that has appeared in "big time". Robert Hartley c20, has appeared on both the Orpheum and Pantages vaudeville circuits. In the Follies Hartley will give practical; the same act he played in the big vaudeville houses.
Emile E. Grignard, e13, has been appointed general manager for the New England states of the Crew-Life Oil Corp. and will be the leader of the warehouse in Cambridge, Massachusetts and overseer of the New England salesmen.
Crushed rock has been sprinkled over several of the tennis courts on McCook Field. When leveled and tamped the courts will have a firm compact base. Tennis sharks have already begun working out.
Yes, Charles Warders, c'19, has shaved his moustache off, not just washed his face. Charlie had a fine beginning. Close observers at a few paces off were beginning to notice it. Charlie could not stand the comment.
The Standard Oil Company is erecting an up-to-date oil station at the corner of New Hampshire and Tenth Street. The work is being completed on a replica it is planned to be ready for service within a few weeks.
the beautifying of the campus might go a little above the surface. From the tree at the top of Fourteenth Street, white light white rage—the last relic of the political campaign held last fall. Soph Hop manager please notice!
The man who has never sat on a tumpike in the boiling hot sun and cracked rock all day cannot appreciate the true worth of the patent rock crusher which is at work near Marvin Hall.
Preparations for war have started on Mt. Oread. The flag is flying on Fraser, the women have started training in the "first aid to the injured" class, and today the workmen are busily digging on what appears to be a trench between the medic building and Fraser.
SPECIAL CONGRESS PREVENTS
BORAH DELIVERING ADDRESS
STUDENTS TO VOTE ON PADDLING SITUATION
Because of the present international situation and the necessity of the presence of all congressmen in the special session of Congress which is to be called on April 2, Senator William Borah of Idaho, who was to give the alumni address here this spring will be unable to fill the appointment.
No announcement has yet bee mace as to who will speak in hi
Raymond Kent, superintendent of the city schools, will talk at the regular meeting of the Y. M. C. A. at 4:30 this afternoon.
Kansan Will Give Students Chance to Vote on Fate of Paddle
ASK CONSTRUCTIVE PLAN
Disciplinary Committee Will Be Given Results of Investigation
10 get an effective expression of student opinion in regard to the freshman cap and paddling situation the Kansan Board voted at a special meeting last night to sound campus opinion either by regular ballot or by questionnaire that would show the University Senate approval. University Senate a constructive policy which should meet the approval of the students as a whole.
It will be decided on at another special meeting tonight what means will be pursued to get this opinion, and a list of questions will be compiled at that time by which the Board will decide whether there are points at issue and the probable remedies. The poll will probably be taken Friday.
Among other questions suggested by representative students and faculty members were: "Is there some means of enforcing the tradition of passing on knowledge to the paddle?" "Would it be advisable to substitute games or athletic contests for paddling such as is done at other universities??" "Should the paddling be limited to the early years?" "Should paddling be allowed and regulated, such as limiting the number who might paddle a refractory freshman or limiting the size and kind of paddles?" "Is there a rule against paddling that would preserve the tradition without upper classmen enforcement?"
These questions and numerous others were proposed to find out the consensus of student opinion which has been so little expressed up to this time. Following a recent announcement in the Kansan by the Disciplinary Committee that it would like to receive communications from the faculty to be brought to the committee to enforce the cap rule, only fifteen replies were sent to the committee, twelve of which were against paddling in any form.
As a result of the joint meeting of the Disciplinary Committee, a committee from the Student Council and one from the freshman class, the committee will develop constructive suggestions following its meeting tonight. The Kansan questionnaire will also strive to get constructive student sentiment, and chairman D. L. Patterson of the committee promised that the committee will consider thoroughly whatever evidence may be obtained by these methods.
KANSAS TO THE COLORS!
Chancellor Strong To Urge Loyalty to President and German Americans, at Tomka
That all Kansas should rally to the support of the President and stand by him loyally in his efforts to protect the honor and life of the republic, is the plea Chancellor Frank Strong will make tonight in an address to the Scottish Rite Masons at Topeka. He will ask for the fair consideration of German-Americans.
"Let us make no mistake in this," said the Chancellor. "95 per cent of the so-called German-Americans are loyal Americans and desire whole heartedly to fight and to be loyal for this country. Let us not alienate them by misdirected patriotism; that would be cruel and unjust."
"After peace has come again we want no divided country such as we had after the Civil War. It required more than a generation to heal that wound and we want no more such injuries. But we will have them if we are unjust to the loyal American who is from Germany.
"Because a few irresponsible loud-mouthed Germans talk foolishly let us not treat unjustly the great body of German-descended Americans who killed 950 people as well as though Schmidt is as good as you he spelled it S-m-i-h-"*h*
DEAN WALKER TALKS TO EMPLOYERS ASSOCIATION
P. F. Walker, dean of the Engineering school, spoke to the Kansas Employers Association at a banquet in commerce rooms at Topeca last night.
Dean Walker's subject was "The Development of the Industries of Kansas". The association is composed of the owners and managers of the largest industries of Kansas. The association meets annually.