UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOLUME XIV
NATION CAN LIVE ONLY BY ITS PUBLIC SERVICE
Zueblin Advocates Patriotism Harmonious With National Well-Being
OUR ATTITUDE IS WRONG
Speaker Hits Hard Our Fals Prejudices of Average American Citizen
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS, TUESDAY AFTERNOON, MARCH 27, 1917.
"A year of the Life of every boy and girl should be given to some form of public service," said Charles Zueblin in his lecture, "The United States—The Pace Maker?" in Fraser Hall yesterday afternoon.
Such a service would discipline ame prepare each generation to defend this country. We must plan for far in the future in order to forestall the panic and foolish "preparedness" legislation of every international crisis. This year of training would inculate into the youth of this land sound patriotism harmonious with national values, well trained. It would furnish an opportunity for vocational training in which young people could experiment in life and the nation select its soldiers, engineers, and social workers.
ADVOCATES WORKING ARMY
"America must recognize that militarism cannot be abolished by prayer or fasting, but only by a reasonable counter-proposal. America must have a working army. The laboring men and farmers will not pay for a big standing army—one which is idle exertion. This kind of militarism and will support a bie working army."
Mr. Zueblin advocates the supplementing of our navy with a merchant marine and the increasing of the number of our aircraft and submarines.
"Such defensive measures would never encourage aggression, and a big merchant marine would be a training school for sailors and officers. A unified nation is impossible with railways, express, and telegraph in private hands," continued Mr. Zueblin. "No matter how insuperable obstacles seem the United States must develop solidarity by socializing all transportation and communication. We have luxurious trains but no railroad system. One-third of our railroad lines are needless duplications."
DICUSSES IMMIGRANT QUESTION "America must revise its attitude toward immigration. We can only admit people as fast as we can assemble them, and we cannot discrimination against European nor Asiatic immigrants. At one time the Irish were welcomed in New England about as heartily as the Chinese are in California, but happily the Irish were not barred from this country. We can admit freely Asiatics as well as immigrants, because they assimilate in any year, if our native labor is protected by law and organizations so that no aliens are employed while natives are unemployed and immigrants are compelled to accept the American standard of living. It is chimerical to try to monopolize power for the harmful of people in it, while other nations are overcrowded."
U. S. NEEDS K. U. ENGINEERS
The United States needs University of Kansas civil engineers in the engineering corps of the army. A request for trained men was contained in a letter received at the University this morning from Washingto- ing, who said more than 90 vacancies in positions calling for trained engineers before July.
Government Wantis 90 Men to Take Examination for Military Service
By order of the war department all red tape and lengthy preliminary tests have been abolished, and a single competitive examination, June 25, will automatically weed out the men not fitted for the service.
The requirements for taking the examination are that the candidate be single not over 29 or under 21 years and be a graduate of an approved technical school.
Electrical and mechanical engineers also are needed, and examinations for service in those departments will be given at the same time.
Davis Talks to Polity Club
The International Polity Club will meet Wednesday night at eight o'clock in Room 110, Fraser Hall. Prof. W. W. Davis, of the department of history, will talk on "Foreign Policy," discussing probable future relevance which will result between this country and Europe from the present war crisis.
NUMBER 122.
Send the Daily Kansan home.
RAYMOND KENT TO SPEAK
AT REGULAR Y. M. MEETING
Raymond A. Kent, superintendent of Lawrence schools, will address the regular meeting of the Y. M. C. Alma at four-thirty in Myers Hall.
"Mr. Kent is one of the strongest school administrators in the Middle West," said Dutch Wedell this morning. "At present he is busy working but a constructive policy for the school problems in Lawrence."
MOST WOMEN ARE NOT FUNNY
Says Author 'of French Play to be Given April
A French play will be given by the students in the department of Romance languages on April 122th. The play is a comedy in four acts, "Le Voyage de M. Perrichon," by Labiche and Martin.
Labiche has written a number of witty French comedies. He does not pretend to "do" women and girls. He says they are not funny. The play will be given in French by a selected committee of students. Practice for the play has been in progress for the last week and the entire cast will be announced soon.
CHORAL UNION WILL SING
Sacred Oratorio to be Given Sunday Under Direction of Professor Nevin
"The Seven Last Words of Christ," a sacred oratorio, the music of which is by Duoho, will be sung by the Choral Union in Robinson Gymnasium Sunday night. Music lovers who heard them sing of Goundon's "Redemption" on Palm Sunday last year were delighted.
There are no special solo numbers on the program which will be a demonstration of the community singing which Prof. Arthur Nevin has been developing since early last fall. A 20-year-old member of the choir Nevin, will play, the accompaniment.
The Choral Union is composed of Lawrence people, University students, and faculty members. It represents one phase of the effort made by the School of Fine Arts to make community singing more general in Kansas.
WHEN A LINE'S STRAIGHT
E. B. Miller, Math. Instructor:
Contends It's Only a Segment of a Circle
Mr. Noah Webster thought it all out for himself when he wrote his blood curdling work called, "A Dictionary", or "How One Word Leads To Another". He says, in one dramatic passage: "A line is that which makes a person greeth not thickness. It is the continuous extent of only one dimension."
"The King of the Road", a three reel film, will be shown in Fraser church tomorrow evening at 8:30 o'clock under the auspices of the American Society of Electrical Engineers. This is the joint meeting of the local branch of the society with the Kansas City branch.
The picture, showing the development of transportation, is open to the public.
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Yesterday at four-thirty in Room 103, Administration building, the Mathematics Club decided that, after all, Mr. Webster is correct. With a straight line, it is different. It must be remembered that there is no soot on a straight line. O dear kid! Why, Mr. E. B. Miller instructor in mathematics says so. You see, all straight lines have their radii at infinity. This is a large place where all good radii go when they aren't doing anything else. Now, suppose a line is drawn directly from Fraser to Green Hall. It would be called a segment of it. It would be a segment of a circle whose radii met at Tenth and Main streets in Kansas City. See how that is?
Ruth Ewing, c'16, of Parsons left today for her home after visiting at the Chi Omega house.
Mr. Miller is an authority on straight lines. Indeed he has built a machine for drawing a straight line. Yesterday, he demonstrated this scientific doo-dad to about thirty persons who all said "How perfectly wonderful!" and other words of awe and astonishment. But it took two of the holding um-bob on the blackboard as axiom was born: "A straight line is something drawn by a machine anchored to the wall by two men."
L. L. Steimley, instructor in mathematics this morning said: "This straight-line-machine may revolutionize the world of architecture," he wrote. "All the world has been crying aloud for it, world without end amen!
ELECTRICAL ENGINEERS TO SHOW EDUCATIONAL FILM
CRUEL PADDLES WILL FORCE FRESHMAN CAP
Predominating Opinion at Joint Meeting is in Favor of Retaining Custom
FACULTY MEN DISAGREE
Many Favor Caps in the Fal
But Not in the
Spring
That freshmen should wear their diminutive caps and be compelled to wear them by the use of the paddle unless a more satisfactory method can be found, was the predominating opinion expressed at a joint meeting of the University Disciplinary Committee and representatives from the freshman class and the Men's Student Council yesterday afternoon.
Another meeting of the University Disciplinary Committee will be necessary, however, before it will be ready to make its recommendation to the Senate as to what shall be done regarding the question of paddling.
The men who met with the University Disciplinary Committee were: R. A. Hartley, C. D. Hughes and F. H. Lynn, representing the freshman class; S. B. Nelson, M. L. Goar, and W. J. Garrity; the Council, After Professor Patterson, chairman of the committee, explained the growth of the custom of paddling freshmen for not wearing their caps and the several reasons for the press criticism of the committee; the members of the committee were called upon to give their opinions.
PATTERSON EXPLAINS CUSTOM
Gear. "Personally I do not take great delight in wielding a paddle. I ran the gauntlet and was paddled three times when a freshman and I believe it did me good. I am in favor of freshmen wearing their caps and pads. I wear them unless the upper classmatter paddle them when they do not."
Nelson, "I was paddled when a freshman for not wearing my cap. I believe wearing the distinctive cap is an excellent means of identification and it is important to freshmen. I believe the paddlings freshmen get are good for them and I never heard of anyone being injured other than by acquiring a few black and blue spots which lasted only a few days. Whether a more satisfactory fellowship the wearing of freshman caps can be found, I do not know."
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TREES, NOT STUDENTS PROTECTED BY CITY
SHAAD BELIEVES TRADITION WRONG
SHAAD BELIEVERS TRADITION WROGN
At this point Prof. G, C. Shaad of the School of Engineering said in his opening address that she and its enforcement by use of the paddle, as a tradition of the University, was entirely wrong. Professor Shaad said, "A tradition is a custom that is held for the love of it and for the work in institution with which it is connected. The truth is that it must be enforced by physical violence."
ABRAHAM CAPS in SPRING
Hunley has a favor to enforce the wear of fraternum caps. It is a good means of introduction in the fall. I am not in favor of wearing them in the spring. And I object to the day, for beginning to wear advanced one day without the freezing known as it was the case last fall."
Wagner, "I believe paddling, as a means of enforcing the wearing of freshmen caps, is a good thing. The fellows that are paddled usually need to wear caps because they want to display their bravado spirit before the upper classmen. The student that takes his paddling good naturedly is seldom. While the one who tries to fight needs to be paddled and usually gets it."
Lynn: "I think the caps should be worn in the fall but I do not believe they are necessary in the spring. I have no objections to paddling but I object to the use of heavy clubs which some upperclassmen sometimes use."
WOULD ABOLISH CAPS IN SPRING
Prof. W. L. Burdick of the School of Law seemed to express the opinion of the faculty members on the committee when he said he believed the freshman should be made to wear the freshman cap. But as a member of the University faculty he could not comment the use of the paddle as a means of enforcing the custom. He was afraid, however, that if the mate
Hartley, "I think the whole system is wrong. I would like to see some other means of identifying freshmen than the humiliating little cap. I am in favor of paddling if it is the only wearing of the insurance can be encouraged. It looks like they men always have to be the goats and here it has taken the form of their being made to wear the freshman' cap."
BURDICK FAVORS CUSTOM
$2,000 Appropriation to Figh
Canker Worms Arouses
Doctor Crumbine
DISGRACE AND AFFRONT
Health of Students Neglected Because of Lack of Funds
"Two thousand dollars to fight canker worms and not a cent for city health. It's a disgrace to the city of Lawrence and an affront to the students who attend the University of Kansas."
The foregoing is the opinion expressed by Dr. S. J. Crumbine this morning in regard to the recent appropriations by city officers of $2,000 to protect the elm trees of the city where a 36-month study weeks before the same officers told the University health authorities there was no money to fight the epidemic of diseases threatening the citizens and University students.
"We admit that the elm trees should be protected but we fail to see wherein trees are $2,000 more important than citizens and students," said Doctor Crumbine. "I was never more disappointed when I heard of the city appropriation to protect elm trees, when a short time before our attempt to get the city to appropriate $1,000 to pay a health officer and to fight epidemics threatening citizens of Lawrence had been turned down."
CO-OPERATION NEEDED
Lawrence has no city health department. The health of the city is supervised by the county officer who may come once a month or some time the University health authorities have been urging the city to establish such a department to cooperate with University authorities in supervision of city and student health.
"Our plan is to establish cooperation between city, county, and University," said Doctor Sandwall. "A very feasible method would be for each to appropriate $1000 or more to establish one health department for all three. With three separate departments the necessary expenditure be some friction and a useless expenditure of money for laboratories and salaries.
"If such a department were established, the head should be a specialist and the salary should be large enough to employ a good one. A man should be with in a community of this size unless he has specialized in public health."
Doctor Sandwalt spoke at the Plymouth Center meeting at the Congregational church Sunday night and mentioned that diversity authorities expect that at least some kind of a health service will be established in Lawrence soon.
K. U. TODAY AND YESTERDAY
Kansas Woman Uses University as Short Story Setting in Current Magazine
The University of Kansas fifteen years ago and now, is the setting for a short story, "Where Youth is Also," by Dana Gatifi in the current Collers.
The picture of the University fifteen years ago differs from that of today. Robinson Gymnastism was unheard of and there was no car line on the court. Robinson had subtly unheed of today, used to stand temptingly just opposite Fraser.
However, the picture of student life differs very little from student life today. He dated, studied, flunked, like any other mortal man. She and had dates, flirted for amusement and—well, they called her Ginsy.
Miss Gatlin is a Kansan, a former student in the University. She is one of the well known short-story writers, and has helped raise Kansas second only to Indiana as a state that produced many books. Besides her short stories, published in Collars, she is also a literary editor for the New York Sun.
K. U. PROF, MAKES CHART OF ALL KANSAS OIL WELLS
Send the Daily Kansan home.
Plain Tales from the Hill
Raymond C. Moore, head of the State Geological Survey with office in the Geology Building, is preparing principal oil and gas wells in the state.
Said Doctor Strong to John C. Fast
"my boy, why don't you grow?"
Tra-la!
Here I am, a-way up high
While you are way down low.
Tra-la!
Quotch Jick: "I knowI'm short;
And you're like a towering mast;
Tra-la!"
I'll even grant you are Strong
The chart locates the wells specifically by county, township, range, section, and part of section. It gives the depth of the well, the strata, the thickness, and the height of the thickness of each layer, the description, and the geologic formation.
I'll even grant that you are Strong-
But all the same." m Fast.
*Last.*
Ray Gafney, c'19, will withdraw from school in April to join a quartet which will tour the Redpath-Horner Chautaquia Circuit this summer. He will return to school next fall. Gafney is known in music and dramatic circles on the Hill. He has spent several summers in chautaquia work.
Dwight Hardman, c20, left last night for his home in Phillipsburg to attend the funeral of his grandfather at his hospital. He will return to Lawrence Saturday.
Mr. Average Stude is a busy individual this week. On Monday night there was fraternity meeting; tonight and Thursday there are shows at the Bowersock; Wednesday night literary societies and debating clubs meet; and Friday night the Pharmics give an All-University dance in the Gym. That leaves Saturday night for study. Be ye thankful for small favors!
Wint Smith is carrying his arm around in a sling this week as the result of too much participation in a basketball tournament now conducted at the City Y. M. C. A. Wint—before his wing was crippled—was the star goal shooter on one of the contending teams. When his opponents began to notice that he tossed some balls through the gaps during every game, they framed him. A dislocated arm for Wint was the result of their plotting. And now the K. U. baseball squad is minus one perfectly good pitcher.
A reference in this column yesterday stated that Thomas Dewey was a member of the national guard until the time of the Mexican trouble last summer. In justice to Dewey, the Kansan is glad to make a correction Dewey was withdrawn as a member of Battery A in Topeka several weeks before the Mexican call. At the time of the call, Dewey was in western Kansas. As he planned to come to K. U. he did not re-enlist.
IN JUSTICE TO MR. DEWEY
Prof. L. E. Sayre, dean of the School of Pharmacy, left for Tepeka this morning to confer with the State Department, regard to state drug inspection work.
Are K. U. women domestic? Well, rather. If you don't believe it, take a look at the many brilliant colored sweaters on the Hill. The majority of them are hand-knitted. One PI Phi Tau, the brunette, and she is much envious by the fortunate women who have one and the fortunate women who have none.
Spring. Grass green. K. U. boy.
Girl. Stroll. Silence. Wistful looks,
silence. Love. Date rule broke.
More love. Girl gets pin. All in the
love.
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mister sart, editer.
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And now rumors of a burglar discovered last Sunday night at the Pi Phi house. One little lassie woke up in the middle of the night to see a man hovering over a jewel box on his bed, and then he fled—and now there's nothing left to tell except that she's still afraid to go around in the dark.
The annual K. U. meeting of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers will start at Marvin Hall tomorrow. An all day program will be followed by a banquet at 6 o'clock at Robinson Gymnasium.
TO OBSERVE LOYALTY
DAY THURSDAY APRIL 5
University Will Respond to Governor Capper's Appeal for Patriotism
WHOLE STATE WILL JOIN
Urge Every Town and School to Hold Exercises and Display Flags
The University of Kansas, which has been waiting—waiting with her two thousand men ready for action if war should be declared with Germany, will observe a day of patriotism and loyalty Thursday, April 5. Governor Capper issued a proclamation yesterday asking the observance of Labor Day by Kansans, Friday April 6. The university will hold the observance a day earlier because of the Easter vacation, which starts Thursday night.
"We have made no definite plans for the program," said Chancellor Strong this morning. "There will be patriotic speeches by our own men and the band may play. Classes will be shortened as usual. This patriotic speech is a place of the regular semi-monthly convocation scheduled for April 13."
The governor has asked in his proclamation that flags be displayed on all buildings, automobiles, private homes Friday, April 6 Loyalty Day. He has also requested that patriotic exercises be held in schools; public meetings in town and cities and towns of the state; and that more vigorous encouragement be sent to the president and members of Congress.
"If necessary, I hope the United States gets into the war in a hurry,送 troops to Europe and finish the war as quickly as possible," said the chancellor. "I am opposed to war as any real men should be, but to stop guerillas that are growing worse in Europe I believe the United States should send troops over.
WAR WOULD CHANGE COUNTRY
"Germany won't stop until she has been forced to do so and the United States is the power, I think, to do it.
"We of the United States hardly appreciate what a great change would allow us with the advent of war not to the physical side of the country but to the economic side," would take at least fifty years to recover hate to see war come but if it must.
"Of course there will be objections the job done."
FRED C. TRIGG WILL SPEAK Kansas City Star Man to Give Personal Account of W.R. Nelson
Fred C. Trigg, editorial writer on the Kansas City Star, will talk to classes in the department of journalism Wednesday and will speak at a meeting of members of Sigma Delta Chi, honorary journalism fraternity, Wednesday at the Beta house. Alfred F. c17, senate of the last legislature for the Tepeka Capital, will also talk at the Sigma Delta Chi meeting.
Mr. Trigg is a Kansas product starting in newspaper work at Garnett. For years he has been an editorial writer on the Kansas City Star. He knows Kansas politics from top to bottom. His talks will be about higher ideals of newspapers and this world aspects. While here he will be a guest of S. O. Rice assistant professor of journalism.
SENATE DANGLES UP IN AIR
Elegibility Committee Must Make Decision Before Meeting Tuesday
The Senate is up in the air concerning the eligibility rules for student activities but the matter will have to be threshed out before the Senate meeting next Tuesday. There are objections and more objections pouring in from all sides but the large committee is doing its best to smooth these difficulties and formulate a fair set of rules.
"Of course there will be objections whenever the shoe pinches," said Professor Boynton this morning, "but the state is trying to be fair in the matter."
So far the committee has not decided what organizations shall be exempt from the rules nor just what the rules are but the careful consideration is being made of titles of the matter by the committee. A decision will be given next Tuesday.
The Weather
The Weather
Fair and warmer tonight
Wednesday.