UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
NO.
VOLUME XIV.
CRISIS IS PASSED IN SCARLET FEVER SCARE
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS, THURSDAY AFTERNOON, MARCH 15, 1917.
Medical Authorities Believe Epidemic Has Been Safely Checked
HOSPITAL WORK PASSED
With only three cases of scarlet fever in the University, the threatened epidemic seems to have been permanently checked. The case of Lucille Sterling, c18, who has been isolated for several days as a suspect, was used as scarlet fever yesterday, making the third case in the University.
Urge Co-operation of University and City in Guarding Students' Health
SUNDWALL IS CHEERFUL
"The situation cannot not be called discouraging," said Dr. Sandwuld. Every precaution has been taken by the University Health Service to prevent an epidemic of any kind, and I believe we now have the situation in hand. If the students continue to co-operate with the health authorities, the danger will soon pass."
HOSPITAL WORK COMMENDED
The manner in which the scariet fever epidemic has been handled by the University goes far in confirming the record made by that institution in similar situations. Much criticism has been forthcoming from over the state over the recent deaths, but this hospital did as much as any could have. There also are a great number of persons from over the state and a great number of students who need as necessary for the University.
HOSPITAL WORK COMMENDED
The February number of the Journal of the Kansas Medical Society continued in 2014 to examine ytphoid epidemic and the work done by the University Hospital Service in checking it. Recommendations are made in the article to prevent the recurrence of such a situation. Improvement in water cation sanitary machinery, adequate machinery for inspection and control of milk supply, and the appointment of a full-time health officer, are some of the measures urged for the city of Lawrence. Co-operation between city agencies was as defined by the only means of guarding the health of students and townpeople.
SUGGEST CHANGE IN SYSTEM
Legislators Would Reduce Size of Both Houses—Do Not Agree on Number
Members of the recent Kansas legislature favor the two house system of legislation, although many believe its size should be reduced. This information was obtained by Howard White, a graduate student, for his master's degree.
Seven senators and 18 representatives think the present legislative system unsatisfactory, but not all of them believe it. Fourteen senators and 36 representatives believe the size should be reduced, but they differ as to the extent; some believe the house should be cut to 40 members and the senate to 20 mem-
The average age of members of the senate was 47, while that of the house was 49.2; which is contrary to the report. The senate and the House are older men than the representatives. All but three members of the senate reported a financial loss because of attending the legislature. The loss of money for those report-ers was $880.
A summary of occupations of the legislators shows 21 lawyers, 61 farmers, 46 business men, four physicians, and eight in various other occupations. One man has served continuously since 1911, 1914, 1913, and 35 from 1915. Sixty-six members have held state, county, city, or township offices.
Announce Prize Tunnel Story
**Announce Prize Tunnel Story**
The winner of the contest for the best story written about the proposed tunnell under Mount Oread, will be announced early. This story was a gift of an offer of a silver loving cup to the student in Newspaper I or II who writes the best essay on the subject.
Prof. A. C. Terrill, of the department of mining engineering, is offering the prize.
Women's Gym Class Exhibition
Women's Gym Class Exhibition
The women's gymnasium classes will give an exhibition of their work tonight at 7:30 o'clock. The program will consist of wand drills, folk dances and two dances, "The Flower dance", and "Flirtation dance", by the aesthetic dancing class.
ORGANIZE SOCIETY FOR BIOLOGICAL RESEARCH
A Society of Biological Research was founded at the University last night by advanced students, fellows, and instructors, who are carrying on active research in the departments of anatomy, botany, bacteriology, entomology, physiology, and zoology. This society has as its aim the fostering and encouraging of research and the forming of a closer union among the men in the different departments of Snow Hall.
W. W. Swingle, instructor in zoology, was elected president and Walter Wellhouse, assistant state entomologist, secretary-treasurer. The programs of the society which will be given every two weeks, will be original papers by members on their own lines of research.
RARE BIRD WILL FLY
ON CAMPUS TOMORROW
Sour Owl, Grown Wise With Age, Gives Out Solemn Secrets
Secrets
The second issue of the Sour Owl, the University humor magazine published by the Owl Society will appear on the campus tomorrow morning. The Sour Owl will be sold from a booth on the campus and in Robinson Hall. The third issue of the magazine will be sold at the Kansas-Missouri track meet in Kansas City.
"This issue of the Sour Owl is much keener than the first one," Warren Wattles, one of the editors, said this morning. "The contributors got the news." From the first issue and consequently more suitable material was turned in."
"The art in this Owl is a decided improvement over that of the November issue," Harry Morgan, art editor, wrote. "It also helps by two Kansas City artists and ranks with covers seen on the best college magazines." The art work was done by Benny Minturn, Freed Leach, Dick Bole, Bob Mason, Milton Nigg, and Lynn.
All plans have been made for the sale of the magazine tomorrow. The price will be the same as last fall—fifteen cents a copy. The Sour Owl is issued by a board of five editors and eight members; other members of the board are Don Davis-Dick Treweeke, and Walter Hawkorset.
ALICE RAVENHILL WILL
TALK TO H. S. TEACHERS
Miss Alice Ravenhill, International Lecturer on home economics vill speak in Fraser Chapel Friday evening. Miss Ravenhill is the world's greatest authority on this subject and comes to Lawrence after a week of lectures at Manhattan. Miss Ravenhill's talk Friday evening will be given in connection with the high school teachers conference. For many years Miss Ravenhill was in the employment of the British Government and made valuable contributions in England and Canada. The these surveys together with other works have since become valuable texts.
DUTCH WEDELL TALKS ON "OTHER THINGS ABOUT K.
Hugo Wedel gave a second of a series of talks on "Other Things About K. U." yesterday afternoon at 4:30 in Myers Hall. A great deal of interest is being manifested in these personal talks by the men of the University. The general theme of the talk was how to express opinions and expressions with which Mr. Wedel had come in contact in his work over the state.
By request from a number of men of the student activities Mr. Wedell will give the third of the series on next Wednesday afternoon at 4:30.
At the regular meeting of the Kansan Board last night it was decided to have an editor of the Plain Tales column. The following editors were elected for next month: Editor-in-chief, Alfred Hill; news editor, Bob Reed; society editor, Mary Smith; Plain Tales editor, Don Davis.
Kansan Board Elects Editors
The Junior class will give its annual dance in Robinson Gymnastium March 23. The music will be furnished by Haley's orchestra. Real refreshments and decorations have been promised by the managers.
Helen Patterson was appointed associate editor.
Juniors To Give Dance
Lieut. James C. Hughes of Battery A spoke in the Chamber of Commerce room Wednesday evening at eight o'clock. He was brought to Lawrence to arouse interest in the battery that is being organized here.
The Weather
Probably rain tonight. Cold Friday in southwest portion. Fresh, strong, shifting today and Friday.
MAY LEVY COMPULSORY STUDENT ACTIVITY FEE
Board is Given Power to Require Support of Student Enter-
BENEFITS OTHER SCHOOLS
Commencement Fees Will Not Go to State Auditor This Year
The Board of Administration has been granted the right by the state legislature to levy a student activity fee to provide student entertainment such as lectures, athletic meets, and concerts. A provision giving the board this right was added to the general appropriation bill for state institutions.
"The provision probably was put into the bill in order to benefit some university students by providing a voluntary system such as the one at the University. If the Board decides to take advantage of it it will apply for university the same as to other state schools."
"If the Board sees fit to adopt the compulsory fee system, it will merely replace the present voluntary system and allow them," said Regisrar George O. Foster.
Another provision in the bill permits any commencement fee levied by the different institutions to be set apart for commencement purposes. Previously the commencement levy was gone to the state treasury and paid out of the fund passed through the hands of the state auditor.
Last year the auditor refused to permit the authorities to pay for the senior banquet out of money collected from the senior class. With the passage of the provision for setting aside this fee it will be possible to use the money to pay for the banquet as had been done previous to last year.
ANNOUNCE DEBATE SUBJECT
Triangle Debate Will Be Contested By Oklahoma, Colorado and Kansas
TO ASCERTAIN STUDENT OPINION ON PADDLING
The subject chosen for the triangle debate is, "The Question of Compulsory Investigation of Industrial Disputes. Kansas will debate with Mahaska Boulder, March 23. Paul Schmidt, Joseph Harris, and Edwin Price will take the affirmative here with Price as captain. Leland Smith, John Donaldson, and Lyle Anderson will take the affirmative. Anderson is captain of this division.
The latest fad which women of the University have taken up is the use of brilliant colored ink in fountain pens. The shades most popular are red, green, purple, blue, and black. One young woman handed in a term paper written with a violent purple dye.
The Chancellor's cabinet met yester-
 afternoon and discussed the new appa-
tments.
The same subject will be debated by Kansas and Missouri teams at Columbia, April 23. C. H. Dewey, A. B. Smith, and L. E. Smith as captain; will debate three.
President Butcher, of Emporia Normal, Henry Allen, of Wichita, and C. H. Scott of Iowa have been involved in just the job at the debate here but have not yet accepted.
Canvas of All University to Obtain Sentiment Begun By Student Council
FINAL DECISION MONDAY
Disciplinary Committee Wi Recommend Action in Matter to Senate
Rosedale Girls Won Last Year
A petition to ascertain student sentiment concerning the abolition of paddling at the University was circulated on the campus this morning under the auspices of the Student Council.
An attempt is being made to get the opinion of every student in school on the question in order to present the vote to the disciplinary committee of the University Senate when the two bodies meet together Monday.
The Student Council individually and as a body decided at its last meeting to express itself in favor of retaining the custom at K. U. Another expression in favor of the retention of students from the Kansan Board voted unanimously in favor of enforcing the "Freshman Cap" rule by means of the paddle.
"The men on the Council feel like the majority of the men in the University do," said one of the members. "They do not believe in running it into the ground, but the freshman cap has grown to be one of the school's tradition." It is especially the only means of enforcing some freshmen to wear it. To do away with padding means the caps would disappear in a few years.
"Paddling is not as severe a torture as a few persons think," maintains a member of the Kansan Board, "and it is generally the rule that the 'howlers' make a fuss when the freshmen themselves regard it as their initiation into the University. It is no hazing, and he gives exemplary assistance to a school life. Many times the first thing a freshman tells when he gets home for a vacation is of the paddling he received when he forgot his cap."
CHEMISTS WILL MEET HERE
American Chemical Society, National Organization, to Spend Day at University
The American Chemical Society, which holds its semi-annual meeting in Kansas City in April, will spend one day in Lawrence visiting the University, according to announcement from the E. H. Bailey, of the department of chemistry.
The convention, which lasts five days, will be opened by an address of welcome by Chancellor Strong. Several professors of the University will read papers. Juniors and seniors in the department of chemistry and students of pharmacy will go to Kansas State University, where they are members of the society, but all who are interested in chemistry may attend.
The society has a total membership of 9,000. Its last meeting was in New York. This is the first time it has met in this part of the country.
The geology students who attended the Blackfeet Indian picture-lecture expected to see more scenery in the way of mountains and glaciers, and less Indians and grey hair. However only a few were disappointed.
MOUNT HOPE AND SHERIDAN
HIGH SCHOOLS IN DEBATE
The seventh annual championship debate of the Kansas High School Debating League will be held in the Little Theater in the basement of Green Hall tomorrow evening at 7:40. The team will address "Resolved that the federal government must own and operate the public telegraph and telephone systems of this country". The Mount Hope High School team will defend the question against last year's teacher from Sheridan County High School team.
Rosedale High School Team, Winner Girl's Championship 1916
On the Mount Hope team are Marcie Tucker, Mildred and Lola Hoover. Those who will speak for the Sheridan County high school this year are; Lloyd McLenny, Raymond and Mario McKinney. The judges are: Michelle Mitchell, C. A. Dykstra and W. M. Duffus. A loving cup will be presented to the winners. There will be no admission charge.
PATTERSON DESCRIBES BATTLE OF THE MARNE
History Professor Paints Clear Picture of the Great Struggle
Picturing the great fan-like sweep of the German army and its repulse at the gates of Paris, D. L. Patterson, professor of history vividly told before the International Polity Club last evening how the Battle of the Marne was won and why it embraced ten or fifteen Gettysburgs all in one.
“With its 200-mile front and two million men engaged,” said Professor Patterson, as he explained the maps and scenes thrown on the screen, “the Battle of the Marne stands as the most gigantic of history. It has two chances out of three—in case an enemy crosses the river or bewitched the turning-point of the war.”
How the Germans played their massive game of "crack the whip" through Belgium and northern France, using a long-range Kluck's forces on the flying end; how French strategy massed its reserves to turn this flank, succeeding only after the "taxicab army" was dispatched from Paris by night; how lightning struck the German center, when the Prussian Guards had all but pierced the French lines on that decisive ninth day of September, 1914—all this Professor Patterson depicted as he pointed out the number of troops and explained their moves.
Scenes showing French cities, villages, and havewrought, were shown as the speaker told of personal experiences and interviews on this already historic battlefield. Professor Dawson is now a member of late French and American books written with this, the first French victory in half a century.
"Never has this battle been made clear to me," said a student after the lecture. "No student on the Hill can not make this. I hope it will be given again."
R. H. CLAYTON TO REPLACE
CREMENEYER APRIL FIRST
Ross H. Clayton, c17, has accepted the Ross H. Clayton, state secretary and state service assistant in the department of journalism, made vacant by the reservation Mr. Clayton was formerly editor of the Reveille New Era, of Hill City.
Mr. Clayton, who is a student in the College, will not withdraw from all his class work, but will continue to carry light work. The official change date for him will be made until April 1, when Mr. Cronemeyer's resignation takes place.
ALL-STAR ALUMNI TEAM TO
MEET VARSITY SATURDAY
The All-Star and Varsity basketball teams clash Saturday afternoon at 4:00 o'clock and a close game is expected. The All-Stars, composed of the top three teams in their day, rely on their former ability and knowledge of the game. The Varsity men are confident in their ability to outwind their opponents, and believe that they will more than double their individual superiority of the ALL-Stars.
Men for the All-Star team have not been definitely selected; the following men will probably play: Lefty Sproull, Arthur Weaver, Dumierre, Red Brown, Bill Weidlein, Potty Clark and Dutch Uhrlaub.
The W. S. G. A. has issued a printed notice to be given to all members of the girls' basketball teams coming here for the tournament. The announcement reads: Every woman participating in the Annual High School Tournament shall be governed by the rulings of the W. S. G. A. and A. D. B. All women in which she is staying, Rule 1: There shall be no dates or other social engagements made for Thursday after 8 p. m. Rule II: Rooming houses shall close at 11 o'clock on Friday and Saturday, no exception for dancing.
HIGH SCHOOLS WANT
UNIVERSITY GRADUATE
Bureau of Appointments H Received Fifty Requests Already
MANY STUDENTS APPL
Two Hundred Candidates Have Enrolled From School of Education
There are 200 students in the School of Education enrolled with the bureau of appointments for positions in high schools for the coming year. There are about fifty more students desiring position who have not yet enrolled.
"The bureau of appointments s ready have forty or fifty requests f teachers from the high schools of t state," said Prof. W. H. Johnson la night. "Last year there were no call for teachers until the beginning of t conclusion, so we made our conclusions as to why the calls are coming in earlier this year."
WILL MEET SENIORS
"There will be many superintendents here in the next two days who desire to meet seniors in the School of Education," said Professor John son. "The bureau of appointment will do all it can to aid both parties.
of Education, said Professor Johnson. "The bureau of appointment must have a complete and adequate system of bringing the school and the prospective teacher to gether. On file in the office of the bureau there is a complete record of each candidate's school work, his reflections on teaching, his teograph, and the subjects he desires to teach. When a call is received for a teacher, the committee of app pointures, composed of W. H. Johnson, F. J. Kelly, A. T. Walker, U. G. Mitchell, and Elizabeth Sprague recommends the student who is best qualified to be a teacher. The committee never makes recommendations without first examining all of the candidate's credentials and consulting the departments in which he studied the subjects he proposes to
PERSERVERANCE WINS
"Students are not likely to get the first place they apply for," said Professor Johnson. "But perseverance will win out in nearly every case."
Last year there were 632 applications for teachers made to the bureau from 316 different high schools in eighteen states. Out of 392 candidates the bureau was able to secure positions for 225. The number of men placed was sixty-one, and the number of women 156.
TEACHERS DISCUSS HEALTH
Twelve Hunded Teachers Come Tomorrow for Series of Meetings
"The modern school is getting away from the three 'R's' of the curriculum and paying more attention to the rite and ritual," Kelly of the School of Education, "Not that reading, 'riting and rithmetic are neglected. No. But leading educators are determined if they want to keep work before forcing work upon him."
"Another method of discovering the efficiency of the pupil is by the Binet test. This test determines the class of pupils into many different groups. By the tests the teacher is able to get to the causes for the backwardsness of the pupil and remedy them."
"What a teacher can do for the health of pupils" will be the subject of a talk by W. A. Evans, editor of the Health section of the Chicago Tribune tomorrow night at seventy-five o'clock in Fraser Hall.
Thyrsa Amos, of Lawrence, will talk on "The use of mental tests of the Bines type by teachers in the school." Educational round table at ten-thirty o'clock Saturday. Other discussions will be conducted by W. S. Monroe of the State Normal School and D. C. Johnson of the University of Kansas.
More than twelve hundred high school students, teachers and leading educators of the United States will be in Lawrence tomorrow and Saturday for the basketball tournament, the final debate of Kansas high schools, the health meetings and the teachers' meetings.
Girls' Glee Club Concert
The Girls' Glee Club will give a concert in Frasier Chapel Thursday evening, March 22. There will be a chorus of about fifty voices. The program will include vocal duets, solos, quartets, piano solos, and violin solos. A violinist from Omaha, Neb., will play.
The next meeting of the Board of Administration in Lawrence will be March 29.