UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOLUME XIV.
DEBATERS WILL DISCUSS INDUSTRIAL DISPUTES
Recent Threatened Railroad
Strike Makes Question
Live One
NUMBER 119.
TWO DECISIONS TO WIN
Oklahoma Team Which Meets Kansas Here Friday is Composed of Lawyers
The debating teams of the University of Kansas will battle with teams from Oklahoma and Colorado in the annual triangular debate between the Universities of the three states Friday and Saturday nights.
The debate here Friday night with Oklahoma is the second home contest this year. The negative team from Kansas debates in Boulder, Colorado Saturday night. Each university has its negative team away from home.
DEBATE CIVIL QUESTION
The question, "Resolved: That compulsory investigation of industrial disputes, as embodied in the Canadian compulsory investigation act, should be raised at this time is worthy of thoughtful consideration. Only last week a nation-wide strike of 400,000 railroad men was threatened when this country was apparently on the hostilities with a powerful country.
The affirmative contend that the principle of the Canadian compulsory investigation act, which provides that no strike or lockout can be called before a special committee has investigated the trouble, is a tested and satisfactory solution to the problem of industrial disputes.
The negative objects, among other things, to the compulsory feature of the act. They contend that conciliation and mediation are preferable.
Material bearing directly on the question is hard to find, and the debaters have been forced to do original research. Jim Schmidt, Joseph Harris, and Edwin Price, the affirmative team for Kansas, and Leland A. Smith, John Donaldson, and Lyle Anderson, the negative team, have debated this question in numerous meetings. That both teams are well prepared for the contest is the judgment of their coach, O. H. Burns, of the department of public speaking.
FRILLS. FRILLS AND FRILL
Are Scheduled in Eight-Act Show in Robinson Gymnasium April 12
The men on the Oklahoma team who debate the negative side of the question here Friday night are: Adelbert Brown, Virgil Riddle, and Gordon Stater. They are all all members in the state lawsuit. Law have had experience in debating work.
Kansas must get two decisions to win the contest. If each school wins one and loses one, it is considered a draw.
It is April 12!
It is April 12.
And it is a tongue twister equal to Peter Piper picked a peek of pickled neppens and so forth.
"Frills, Trills and Thrills" is the name given by the Woman's Student Government Association to an eight-man gymnasium. Gymnasium Thursday April 12.
Each act will differ distinctly from the others, in fact persons in the large chorus know not who is in the Hawaiian Group, the Blackface Comedy nor the other five acts. All rehearsals are held in secret; this much is known, however, there are only women in this show.
NORMAL SCHOOL HEADS TO DECIDE GRADUATE CREDIT
Presidents of the normal schools in Kansas will meet at the University, March 27, to settle the question of graduates in normal schools receiving credit for work in the graduate schools in the state. The same issue has been taken up before but no decision was reached.
A board of visitors was appointed at the last meeting which was to visit the three normal schools in the state. Prof. A. L. Owen is chairman of this board and they will make a report at this meeting.
No, it isn't because the lawns need sprinkling. The janitors are discharging those fire extinguishers merely as a matter of preparedness. They are emptied and recharged once every year.
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS, THURSDAY AFTERNOON, MARCH 22, 1017.
Early spring sermenders are abroad in the land of K. U. A squand of mandolin and guitar twangiers last evening when I read music that echoed fow 'up La. street.
CHANCELLOR APPOINTED TO
NECROLIER BOARD OF N. E. A
Chancellor Frank Strong has been asked to be a member of the committee on neurology by the National Educational Association for their next meeting in July. This committee will have charge of the reports on members of the organization who have died during the year.
The Chancellor will have the special duty of preparing a memorial statement concerning the death of E. T. Fairchild, former state superintendent of public instruction in Kansas, who died this winter.
UNIVERSITIES NEED MILITARY TRAINING
Captain of Company M Favors Compulsory Drill for Educational Institutions
"I favor compulsory military training for the University of Kansas and for every other university for that matter," said Captain Frank E. Jones in talking in talks of the military training methods used by different colleges.
"At some of the schools the training is under direct supervision or army officers; at other universities it is merely substituted for gymnasium work with no systematized or organized instruction. Unorganized as exercise but it does not follow all the principles of the work as done in regular army work. Why not pick the best—that of supervision by a regular army officer. The War Department furnishes officers free of charge to the universities and schools that have to have military training it should be under supervision of officers of the army."
At Wisconsin they have an organization called the Reserve Officers' Training Corps. The membership of this organization is made up of upperclassmen who have had the military training required at that University. This training is not under supervision of the army officers, however.
Strict military training at the University means as complete a drill, without the frills, as does the work in the army. The university attends school, study for war situations, eat and sleep in their own homes without added expense to the government and get efficient training as in the regular army camps. These are the results found after observing the military training audits as is being talked of for the University of Kansas.
MARCH CONVOCATION FRIDA
Men's and Women's Glee Clubs Have Charge of Program in Fraser Chapel
The regular March convocation will be held tomorrow at 10:10 o'clock in Fraser Chapel. The class periods will be cut ten minutes short and the regular convocation schedule will be followed out.
The program will be entirely in charge of the Women's and Men's Glee clubs. The following program will be given:
Dawn
The Butterfly Chase
Borschein
Tscheikowsky
Professor Downing, Director
The Moerful Wanderer…Mendelsslin
The Meerful Wanderer
Student Tickets Will Not Admi to Girls' Glee Club Concert
The Men's Glee Club Professor Farrell, Director.
MILL GIVE CLASSIC CONCERT
The Girls' Glee Club will be heard in concert in Fraser Chapel at 8:15 tonight. Beside the regular chorus singing by the Club there will be special numbers by individual members and violin solitor by Olga Eligar, the young violinist who recently won the national contest for violin playing and is barred from the national contest only because of her youth.
The Weather
Student tickets will not admit to he concert since the University in no way offers admission.
Partly cloudy tonight and Friday Cooler Friday.
Concert
Albert Christman, c20, has quit school to go into the insurance business with his father. Albert, some will remember, is the boy who rejoins his town at the rate of one a day. The insurance business has its appeal.
Because of the crowded condition in their drafting room, the architects are trying to revise a pubster top for their project. The architect may be stretched to provide more room.
Many Professors From Other Schools Will Lecture at University Summer Session
PLAN SUMMER WORK IN 28 DEPARTMENTS
SESSION STARTS JUNE
Extension Division Plans Entertainment for Hot Weather Students
Courses in twenty-eight departments of the University will be offered Summer Session students the first six weeks this summer and in fifteen departments the last four weeks. The first term will last from June 7 to July 18 and the second term from July 19 to August 15.
Summer school enrollment is composed largely of teachers who come for special work and students who have failed in some course or who wish to get ahead of their schedule. Work done in the summer school counts toward a degree the same as that of winter terms.
Eighty-two members of the University faculty and five instructors from other schools will compose the Summer Session faculty. Fees for attendance are $1,250 per student dollars for residents of Kansas and fifteen dollars for non-residents.
MANY PUBLIC LECTURES
Numerous public lectures will be given during the Summer Session by faculty members and others. Several eminent men have been engaged to address the students this summer. The students who are part of the state are: Ernest Burnham, professor of rural education, Western State Normal School, Kalamazoo, Mich.; T. N. Carver, professor political economy, Harvard University; J. M. Coulter, professor of botany, University of Illinois; L. S. Hawkins, professor of landscape and garden design, Kansas City; L. S. Hawkins, specialist in agriculture, University of the State New York; E. A. Ross, professor of sociology, University of Wisconsin; David Shedden, professor of educators at Teachers College, Columbia University,
COBURN PLAYERS WILL BE HERE
The University Extension Division is planning to provide free entertaining materials will be for the purpose of illustrating the educational value of motion pictures. The School of Fine Arts will provide occasional musical and literary entertainments, including work by members of the faculty. Community members may be a part of some of these programs.
The Coburn Players, who were here last summer and proved so popular (Continued on page 4)
SCARLET FEVER BREAKS OUT IN BETA HOUSE
Graduates Are Urged to Join Navy's Reserve Hospital
U. S. WANTS PHARMACISTS
Corps
A call for graduate pharmacists has been issued from Washington to medical and pharmaceutical schools in all parts of the country, urging enlistment in the navy's reserve hospital corps to be available in case of war.
You will have to admit, won't you, Yylvette, that these are all exceedingly funny?
Opportunity is offered to join the corps for three months' service after graduation, during which time special instruction would be given in navy hospital work. At the end of this period the pharmacists would become members of the reserve, subject to call in case of need.
On every battleship in the navy is a drug store which requires the supervision of trained pharmacists, and there is also a hospital on board that needs doctors, surgeons and assistants. For these positions, college graduates are needed who are fitted for responsible positions. This call for graduate pharmacists is a phase of the demand for college men and women for which the preparedness movement is said to be responsible.
The Alpha Chi Omega maids observed the first day of spring yesterday by raking the front yard. While frivolous lads cavorted on adjacent tennis courts, the dainty and dutiful sorris girls pulled away with garden rake. The date for the bonfire was not obtained.
SACHEMS ADVOCATE CHANGE
FOR COMMENCEMENT WEEK
The Sachems, honor senior society, have agreed to support a change in the University commencement program. The Sachema urge that commencement festivities be held before examinations so that the general student body may take part. Their proposal is given in detail in the "Campus Opinion" column of the Kansas today.
James M. Scott, c'18, is Fourth Patient—Removed to Hospital
AFFIRM DANGER WARNING
Continued Vigilance by Students Necessary to Check Possible Epidemic
Another case of scarlet fever in the University has somewhat discouraged the belief that the threaten- ment epidemic had been thoroughly checked.
Absence of any suspects recently has caused the health officers to be optimistic in the belief that the danger had almost entirely passed.
CASE DEVELOPED YESTERDAY
The latest patient is James M. Scott, the医生 who lives at the Beta Theta Tail 1 fraternity house. It developed last night that Scott had contracted scarlet fever, and he was immediately moved to the University hospital. Dr. H. L. Chambers has charge of the case.
"The disease was no doubt contracted here," said Dr. Chambers, "as Scott has not been home recently. Usually the disease develops within three days after exposure. The case is isolated at the University hospital. None of the other members of the population were infected with scarlet fever, and I believe it is unnecessary to quarantine the whole chapter."
Scott is the fourth student in the University to contract scarlet fever this year. The other three patients are recovering as rapidly as could be expected, according to health authorities, and the authorities to reaffirm the warning that the danger has not entirely passed, and too much care cannot be exercised by students to avoid con-feeding productive of disease and epidemics.
FOURTH STUDENT PATIENT
Another measles patient was confined to the University isolation hospital yesterday. Elmer L. Prock, c'20, who lives at 901 Ind. Street, is the latest confinement for measles. Three cases were released from the hospital yesterday and all others are recovering rapidly.
ENGINEERS DAY MARCH 27
Students Decide to Add Several New Features to Parade This Year
Engineers' Day will be Friday, March 27; the banquet, the preceding night; and the annual dance, Friday night. These dates were decided on at a mass meeting of the School to greetering this morning at 10:30 o'clock
"Engineers' Day will be as live as ever this year, with many new attractions," said Alfred Wieters, president of the School of Engineering. "There is some sentiment among the engineers for an engineering exposition either in connection with Engineer's Day or commencement week. There are many arrangements in different departments will be appointed in a few days."
It is the custom of the Engineers to celebrate one day each spring. In the morning a large parade with floats from all departments of the Engineering School goes down the street and passes a track meet and base ball games are held between the different departments.
In his talk before the Y. M. C. A. meeting yesterday afternoon Dutch Wedel pictured the religious life of the University of Kansas as it really is and as the students ought to know it. He said emphatically that Christ- the light of the world outweighed its attention even above the other student activities.
The attendance at this last meeting was encouraging. The new idea of the Wednesday afternoon meeting seems to be a decided improvement over the old Tuesday evening arrangement, and no more many conflicts. A great many students have asked that the meetings be continued.
CHRISTIANITY MERITS MORE
ATTENTION, SAYS WEDELI
Prof. F. H. Billings of the department of bacteriology recently received a call from Astoria, Oregon, for a woman assistant to a physician. She will be providing a number of calls from various parts of the country for women assistants to city physicians and in laboratories; but he is unable to fill the places because of the small number of women employed by the graduates of the K. U. department of bacteriology are now holding good positions.
Plain Tales from the Hill
Account has been made for the various styles of collars worn by Raymond Fagan, A.B.16, who is visiting at the Phi Kappa house. Raymond checked his trunk from Montana two months ago and has never received it; each day he borrows a collar from account. Raymond checks the rounds of the fraternity by Friday and has set that day as the time of his departure for the South.
Some Arthurian Legends
Professor Boynton, "Young, what
deals the New York Clearing House
does."
Young: "Well, it's a big building, with a dome for a roof, and a lot of pillars around the sides," and some fancy architectural—"
Boynton: "Just a minute, Mr.
Young. Where did you see this
picture of the Clearing House?"
Boynton: "Pardon me, but there's not a picture in the book!"
Professor Boyton: "Mr. Burkhead, have you read Bullock vet?"
Dreaming frosh: "Yessir. They used them as a medium of exchange. at them."
The class was dull. And Professor Boynton was having a hard time getting the class discussion moved along. Each answer was but a stumbling block which retarded progress. Finishing should stand it no longer and burst out:
"I wish I had been trained to be a carpenter. When I would know how to build it, I could do it."
Verne Frank, c'20, left for his home in Irving yesterday, where he will remain the rest of the term. Mr. Frank just recovered from a bad case of manslips and on account of his eyes it may be unable to study for some time.
Instructor in embryology class:
"Class, we will study the brain of the sheep today, as human brains seem to be scarce—
Mary Wood, c20, has found a new way of sleeping late in the morning. It's really very cleavah! She cuts her eight-thirties.
Ernest Stateler, when not running, will talk. He announced his code of ethics this morning: "I am heartily opposed to allowing freshmen the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, no matter what may be their race, color, or previous condition of servitude."
The Voice of the People
Kaw River Anthology
I am the Spirit of the Old Student Union.
I died from suffocation—superinduced
By a rheumatical treasury.
It is beautiful where I am now,—
No rent—no gas bills—no light bills!
Ah, Men of K. U.! If I should tell
What I know of the ireqs I have
Those evil chess and checker fiends,
Who kept on moving, moving, moving!
Those hours wasted over tiddle-de-
mine.
and young lives wrecked with sodaap!
"This is the chapel," said the self-appointed guide—a high school visitor—to his companion as they walked by Spooner Library.
The department of zoology has just received from the University of Cornell two white rats infected with the sleeping sickness parasite. These rats were in the protozoology class. You can have three guesses as to what that is.
"Chapel?" asked the companion.
"Yes, can't you read?" And he pointed to the inscription, "Whoho ever findth wisdom, findth life."
Division Champions Will Play or McCook Field for Carroll
Cup
The twelve teams entered in the Pan-Hellenic baseball league have been divided into three divisions, and begin the season about April first.
Each team will play the other teams in its division and the championship of the divisions will be decided on a percentage basis. The three teams winning the division championship will then draw for places and play each other for the championship of the league.
The preliminary games will be played on the two south fields, the north field and Woodland Park. The finals will be decided on McCook Field. A cup will be given the league champions by Allie Carrol.
The games will probably be umpired by Dutch Wedell and George Smee, the men who worked last year's games. The league championship was won last year by Pi Kappa Alpha. The divisions are as follows:
Second: Phi Gam, Sigma Nu, Sig Albh. Albua Tau.
First: Phi Psi, Sigma Chi, Delta Tau, Beta.
PADDLES ARE GOOD IF NOT MISUSED--ADAMS
Third: Acacia, Phi Delt, Phi Kappa, Kappa Sig, Pi K. A.
Fresh President Thinks College Tradition Should be Uphold at Kansas
ENGINEERS FAVOR PLAN
Greever Says First Year Men Stand Good Chance of Wearing Caps
"I think that the freshmen ought to wear their caps during the football season, but I cannot seen why it wasn't. I don't think that a cap in the spring," said Mark. "I am not altogether opposed to paddling, and would be in favor of it if I did not think that if the privilege were higher than the upperclassman would abuse it."
Believing the sane use of the paddle is not a bad custom, Mark Adams, president of this year's freshman class, stated this morning in an email that the paddle privilege, if granted, would probably be abused by some.
PATTERSON GRANTS HEARING
PATTERSON GRANTS HEARING
D. L. Paterson, chairman of the committee, and this morning the question of paddling would be brought up in a committee meeting to be held at two-thirty o'clock Monday afternoon. At that time a hearing will be given to the committee from the student council, and to the committee appointed by the freshman president. The action, which the committee will take on this question will be large determined from the student report and communications received from the student body.
At a mass meeting of the Engineers this morning, a vote was taken by the freshmen on the abolishment of the dress code and the unanimous to retain the custom, as there were only three dissenting votes cast. The law students at a similar meeting in the week before voted against the custom should not be given up.
PETITION BEING CIRCULATED
"Petitions are being circulated among the students regarding the abolishment of paddling. These petitions give the signer the privilege of voting either way," said Page Wagner, chairman of the Student Council. "I have no reason as far as I can see, why the custom should be abolished."
"Whether or not paddling is abolished, the freshmen stand a good chance to wear their caps," said Paul R. Greever, president of the Student Conservation Association, in opinion that the caps will make their appearance about the first of April."
"I think that the caps ought not to be dispensed with, and that the padded shirt is necessary," Ted Richter, president of the Junior class, said this morning.
WOMEN URGE CAP AND GOWN
Fifty-one Seniors Compose Enthusiasm Committee for Commencement Week
"Every Senior in Cap and Gown," is the slogan adopted by the 51 senior women at the fourth senior women's host in Robinson Gymnastics last night.
Heart-to-heart talks concerning commencement activities and learning of new songs were features of the meeting. Words for one of the songs were written by Willard Wattles and the music by Prof. Arthur Nevin. Graph copies of the song will be distributed by Carolyn McNutt this week.
A senior supper will be given soon.
Y. M. C. A. ELECTS OFFICERS SUGGESTED BY COMMITTEE
Officers for the coming year were elected at the meeting of the Y. M. C. A. yesterday. All officers recommended by the nominating committee were elected as nominated. Walter Pickering, e'17, president; Edwin Price, c'18, vice-president; Floyd Snook, E. F. Englert and George O. Foster were re-elected members of the board of directors.
These new officers will take their
places April 1. The president will an-
gree the vice presidents to accept.
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"I dropped in to pay that dollar," said Merle Cushing, c20, as he strode into a Lawrence business house yesterday. Philanthropically he opened his wallet, but horrors—it was empty! Merle was chagrined. Only the day before he placed a greenback in his pocket, it was in his study desk drawer. Clues point to an "inside" job, suspicion resting on a freshman who majors in dances and dates. (Moral: "Neither a borrower," etc.—Shak.)