UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOLUME XIV.
NO. 112.
SECOND SCARLET FEVER
CASE REPORTED TODAY
Ida Epley, c'20, of Lawrence Confined in Hospital Since Friday
ISSUE MORE REGULATIONS
Students Urged to Help Check Spread of Disease—Suggestions Given
BULLETIN
Helen Robinson of Salina has a light attack of scarlet fever, according to word received from Salina this afternoon. Miss Robinson, c18, left for her home to visit the hospital after the disease was later diagnosed as scarlet fever. She roamed at 1116 Indiana.
A second case of scarlet fever was reported at the University hospital today. The latest one is that of Ida Epley, c20, who lives southwest of Lawrence, and who has been rooming at 1601 Kentucky street. Miss Epley was taken to the hospital on Friday; she was not diagnosed as scarlet fever until Saturday. The first announcement of this second case was made this morning.
Byron Owen, c'20, the first student to contract the disease, is confined in the hospital. He is having a mild attack and his condition is not reported. Owen roomed at 1529 Barker Avenue when he contracted the disease.
The threatened epidemic of scarlet fever among the University students has caused the health service to issue many regulations to be observed by students in preventing the spread of the disease. A close observation of these regulations and the health authorities has urged all students to co-operate in the extinction of the disease by observing the health regulations.
1. Gargle mouth and throat from two or three times daily with some recommended anti-science solution.
2. The atomizer should be used as frequently as the gargle in rendering the nasal passages as sterile as possible
3. All public gatherings and close intermingling in the class room should be avoided, as far as possible.
4. Special care should be taken with the napkin. Take napkin to your room instead and feed it with many other after meals.
5. Care should be exercised in the cleanliness and isolation of all toilet articles .
v. Each student should possess an individual wash basin. This with soap, towels, tooth brush and all toilet articles should be carried to the room after use in order to insure strict isolation. The use of individual basins will prevent contamination from nasal and mouth secretions.
8. Thorough ventilation of sleeping rooms is indispensible.
7. Bed clothing should be given all the sunlight possible. Frequent changes of sheets and cases are especially essential.
9. Keep up your resistance to a maximum. This is best accomplished by sane living. Eat regularly, not too much; drink plenty of good water; be regular in sleeping; avoid habits that tend to reduce your vitality.
10. Report immediately to your physician or the hospital all cases of sore throat.
GYMNASIUM GIRLS PLAN TO
GIVEN EXHIBITION THURSDAY
The girls of the gymnasium classes will give an exhibition of their work Thursday evening. The freshman girls will show their skill with the wands, dumb-bells, and folk-dances. Every first-year girl will be in this exhibition. Two new features in gymnasium work will be given by the sophomore girls in classes and matriche classes. The girls of the athletic dancing class will appear in two dances, "The Flower Dance" and the "Flirtation Dance."
Miss Mix, the gymnasium instructor, said the girls were all doing good work and showing unusual interest and enthusiasm in the floor work.
Plans for the erection of a $290,000 stadium at Brown University have been completed. The structure will embrace twenty acres and the university's football diamonds, a gridiron, a straight-away, and tennis courts will be laud out.
SIGMA XI WILL INITIATE
NEW MEMBERS THURSDAY
The regular March meeting of Sigma Xi will be held at the home of Dean P. F. Walker, 1301 Ohio Street, Thursday, March 15, instead of at the home of Prof. F. H. Billings, as was first announced. The change was made necessary by the illness of Professor Billings; a large amount of entertainment is Professors Walker, Billings, Young, Hyde, M. E. Rice, Bistery, Sterling Sundwall, C. C. Williams, Dockery, Patterson, and S. W. Hunter.
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS, TUESDAY AFTERNOON, MARCH 13. 1917
The paper of the evening will be by Prof. W. S. Hunter on "The Auditory White Rat." The members elected at the last meeting will be initiated.
HIGH SCHOOL TEACHERS WILL BE HERE FRIDA
Open Discussion in Departmenta Round Tables Feature of 14th Annual Conference
The open discussion in the departmental round tables is one of the salient features in the program for the fourteenth annual conference of high schools to be held here Friday and Saturday, April 17th to the consideration of one branch of school work, under the direction of an expert in that branch.
There will be many noted speakers in the general sessions to handle the big vital questions such as, "School Legislation Needed," "Military Training in American High Schools," and "What a Teacher Can. Do for the Health of Children and Discussions" will give each teacher an opportunity to express his theories and to hear the opinions of others about them.
These sectional meetings cover a broad field. Friday afternoon at 3:30 o'clock department round tables of mathematics, languages, and natural and social sciences at 10:30 the teachers will hold department round tables for the subjects of biology, economics and sociology, English, German, history and government, physical science, psychology and arts. There will also be round tables for principals and superintendents Saturday morning.
Although the teachers come chiefly to attend the conference many of the superintendents choose their teachers for the coming year from among the seniors in the School of Education. The bureau of education offers opportunities between superintendent and principals or prospective teachers.
There will be many activities of interest to the teachers besides the sessions in the conference. The final debate of the Kansas High School Debating League will be held Friday night, the annual basketball tournament for the state high school championship will be held during the conference, and Saturday noon a lunchon with special after-dinner speaking will be given in Robinson Gymnasium.
CAPPER SIGNS MANY BILLS
Following Close of Sessions Proposed Laws Are Rushed to Governor
The large number of bills passed in the closing hours of the 1917 session of the Kansas legislature, are flowing through the senior Capper to receive his signature.
Mr. M. N. Dillon, the general secretary of the Y. M. C. A., will address the students and show pictures of the Estes Park region of the Rocky Mountains this afternoon. Since such a large delegation is expected from Lawrence a special train has been promised. Mr. Dillon is here to pursue interest in the conference at Estes Park June 7 to 18.
rutty-seven varieties of bills came to his office yesterday. Out of this number four had to be revised somewhat on account of errors. One was vetoked. It was the bill making it a crime for the government nor believed the punishment proposed was too harsh and would stand in the way of convictions.
Dillon Talks to Y. M.
There is some rivalry on the part of politicians to secure the pen with which the governor signs their pct measures. Charles Ridgeway, an insurance man of Topeka, was the first to have this privilege.
Speaker Keene, of the House, and Lieutenant Governor W. Y. Morgan of the Senate, attended by a few loyal members of the legislature will receive messages from Governor Copper at noon today, but the majority of the members have gone back to their homes and business.
Adjournment sine die is set for tomorrow noon, but it is expected the last business will be finished by tonight.
W.W. DAVIS WILL SPEAK ON "FOREIGN POLICY"
Professor of History to Discuss National Affairs in Fraser Thursday Afternoon
OPINION HAS CHANGED
he Will Trace Change in Sentiment of the American People
INCOME BILL ASSURES
DEFINITE SCHOOL FUND
"Opinion in the United States conserving our foreign policy has undergone a revolution during the last six weeks," according to Prof. W. W. Davis, of the department of history, who will lecture on "Foreign Policy" in Fraser Hall Thursday afternoon. The United States is seeking to be both patriotic and internationally just in the present crisis."
Professor Davis in his lecture will deal chiefly with the American foreign policy and certain policies of the United States. We'll discuss either to conflict with or to advance the interests of the United States. He will discuss briefly our present relations with Japan, Mexico, and Latin America, which is one of the American-German situation.
"In arming our merchant ships under the present circumstances we are acting within our rights and in accordance with the usually accepted doctrine of naval law, said Davis. "It does not necessarily follow that if American merchantmen fire on German submarines that war will follow. In regard to Anglo-American relations, England will not push any issue with the United States to a logical conclusion. Her leaders should recognize that shipping would destroy the hopes of the Western Allies of winning the war."
Professor Davis is particularly interested in the recent tendencies to modify the Monroe Doctrine and the evident intention of the German and Japanese governments to force the States to abandon this doctrine.
And Proves That Archimede Fathered a Deep Subject for Infinite Study
"It is evident from overwhelming evidence that Latin-America is hostile to a continuation of the Monroe Doctrine and therefore not adverse to powers of Mexico and non-American powers in this regard," and Professor Davis.
MATH CLUB TEARS PAPER
"A cycloid is the path traced by a point on the rim of a wheel rolling on a plane". And then Mrs Boyles illustrated this proposition by folding paper. Everyone understood the explanation clearly, when it was done, and seemed pleased. After the demonstration each student in the room shares several times to show that Miss Boyles' work was appreciated. And then every one went home. Yes, mathematics is deep; very, very deep!
Astronomers understand aphelioms and asteroids. Doctors know about asthma and adenoides. Mathematically, they represent of ciphers, circles and cycloids.
Is mathematics a difficult subject? It is. That's why the students in the department of mathematics have formed a club. Twice a month these Euclids and Euclidesses meet for no other purpose than to coax back some errant angle that has gone astray or to bolster up a tired triangle.
Will Give Smoker
University of Minnesota men do not want to learn to cook. Only two of them agreed to take a course in cooking, designed to teach men the most modern culinary methods, which was offered by the home economics department at the university. It was decided not to give the course after the two men were Miss Josephine Berreard of the department, that they had found two co-eds who offered to teach them the art of cooking privately.
Phi Alpha Delta and Phi Delta Phi, legal fraternities, will hold a joint smoker Tuesday evening, March 20, in one of the downtown halls. The place has not been chosen yet, but it probably will be in Ecke's Hall.
"What is a cycloid?" Miss Boyles asked. The answer came unesthetically.
Yesterday at four-thirty o'clock the Mathematics Club folded paper. It is a mathematical problem. Bernice Boyles led the meeting as the chief folder. Neatly and deftly she converted a square piece of paper into a three-dimensional sphereoids. And paper is so expensive. Once Miss Boyles forgot the solcemity of the occasion and made a "suit of clothes for George Washington".
Prefer Private Instruction
Other States Have Tried Permanent Income Tax With Marked Success
SAVES LEGISLATORS' TIME
Provision for Both Buldings and Maintenance Will be Made for Schools
State educational institutions will be able to make plans for each year's work without being hampered by the present uneggality of appropriations. The state legislature has last week by the state legislature, is adopted by the voters of the state.
Certainty of its being passed depends to a large extent upon whether the voters know the bill as it really is. The University and state schools have given it a lot of consideration, are also many who do not know just what the bill means or its importance to the best interests of the schools. Practically every amendment that has failed in a general election has been supported by a growing amendment to be voted upon.
Under the Income Bill, providing it passes in 1918, the legislature which meets the next year will pass a resolution authorizing the raising of a levy of a mill or a fraction of that sum to meet the amount needed to cover the expenses of all school schools. A resolution will recommend a certain amount for each school and the sum of all will be the basis of the tax.
If the required amount should be $6,000,000 and the valuation of all state property should be $6,000,000,-000, a tax of one mill will be required to raise the total expenses of state schools. This amount will remain unchanged until some later legislature sees fit to change it.
ADVANTAGEOUS TO ALL SCHOOLS
The greatest advantage under the Income law will be that each school will have a certain per cent of the amount raised by the tax of a mill. Thus if the property valuation increases in two years $500,000,000, then the schools will get $500,000 more, which will be divided among them as before, according to their individual percentage.
The biggest difficulty will be to get the levy high enough in the first legislature to be of any advantage to the schools. After the money is one million, it is published, it will probably not be changed by any subsequent legislature.
BILL WILL SAVE MONEY AND TIME
Not only will the new law, if passed,
do away with a needless waste of time
and money by the legislatures every
session, but it will also provide for
certain buildings in the yearly income
which is given the state schools. This
will mean a steady payoff. For the
building program of the schools, If
the value does not increase or the schools grow at a much higher rate than the property valuation then the difficulty will be to get the legislature to increase the levy;
say from a mill to a mill and a quarter,
to cover the increased cost of maintenance.
Foster Predicts Many of Nine Thousand High School Graduates Will Come to K. U.
4,000 EXPECTED NEXT FALL
BILL WILL SAVE MONEY AND TIME
uates Will Come to K. U.
Figures from the office of Registrar George O. Foster show that the enrollment of the University has reached 1,437.
Figures from high schools over the state indicate that nearly 9,000 students will graduate from Kansas high schools this spring.
Using this data Registrar Foster predicts the total enrollment of the University will be approximately 4,000 next year.
Nearly one thousand freshmen enrolled in the University last fall. How many first year students does this university have? Where are they going to be placed?
The first question was answered by the Registrar: "It means that we will have an enrollment of from twelve to fifteen hundred freshmen next fall."
"I hope they don't come," said Dean Olin Templin in answer to the second question. "We are full up now and any more students we see are in greatly enlarged classes. More halls than are being used now would have to be pressured into service.
A Daily Letter Home—The Daily Kansan.
No more. The employer for we haven't createthe money. But the yearly increase is becoming a serious problem and something will have to be done before
The Girls' Glee Club will practice
Wednesday, Thursday and Friday at
five o'clock on Saturday.
PAN-HEL BASEBALL LEAGUE
SPLIT INTO THREE DIVISIONS
The Pan-Hellenic Baseball League has been divided into three divisions. The teams in each division will play for the championship of their respective divisions and the winners in the championship fight it out for the championship.
Teams in the First Division are:
Alpha Tau Omega, Phi Gamma Delta,
Kappa Sigma, and Sigma Alpha Epsilon.
Teams in the Second Division are:
Beta Theta Pi, Phi Kappa Psi,
Delta Tau Delta, and Sigma Chi. In
Kappa Sigma, Phi Kappa Psi, Phi Delta Theta, Pi Kappa Alpha,
Sigma Nu, and Acacia. The schedules for the different divisions have not been drawn up.
RICE DEVELOPS NEW BOOK REVIEW IDEA
Has Editions Criticized by Specialists for Kansas News-anners
papers
Book reviews by specialists—that is the latest branch of the University News Service which is sent to every newspaper in Kansas and sanctioned by the University news of general interest to plans for four cent breakfasts. The first weekly book reviews by professors who are authorities on the subject treated were sent out Saturday, and have been favored upon by the Kansas City Star.
The idea of giving book reviews in the news service was originated by Prof. S. O. Rice. Realizing that the reader of the average paper wants a truer estimate of the value of a new book than the review which is sent out by the publisher as an advertisement, Professor Rice decided to give the papers which use the University's resources an opportunity to tout expert opinion. Professor Rice secured reviews of five books by five instructors in the University for the first number of the new department of the service.
"The Philosophy of William James," by Th. Flournoy, is reviewed by Arthur Mitchell, professor of philosophy. By former secretary to William James.
"Italy, France, and Britain at War," by H. G. Wells, is criticized by European History professor of European History whom he corresponded in France last summer.
"Pencraft," by William Watson, is reviewed by James B. McCallum of the department of English; "Oh Mary Be Careful," by George Weston, is criticized by Frank Thayer of the department of French; and "Blood," by Wilfred Wilson Gibson, is discussed by Willard Wattles, instructor in rhetoric.
"All of which," says the Star, "is a new idea. It is a practical service which never before was attempted by any school or organization."
SEEK NEW METHODS OF
CATCHING CANKER WORMS
Experiments are being conducted in the department of entomology with several new devices for the prevention of the canker worm evil. While the tangle foot banks in use now are very effective, their cost makes their use prohibitive on large number of trees. It costs about fifty cents to equip a tree with tanglefoot bands, and the tanglefoot, to be effective, should be renewed. This presents indeed difficulty to the private owner, as the bugs must be removed with a blow-torch before the compound can be applied.
If the experiments now being carried on by the department are a success, all these difficulties in protecting trees will be obviated.
Will Address Pharmacists
The students of the School of Pharmacy and the pharmacists of Lawrence will be addressed this evening by William J. Brennaun at the Chamber of Commerce rooms. Mr. Brennaun is a representative of the Traveling Salesman's Association and is connected with the Horlick's Food Products Company. He has interested himself in legislation and the business side of pharmacy. The meeting will begin at nine o'clock.
The Weather
Laws to Honor Their Dean
Unsettled tonight, probably rain or snow in southeast portion. Wednesday generally fair.
The School of Law will celebrate its annual Uncle Jimmy Day Thursday, April 5, the day before the opening of the Easter recess. Baldwin Mitchell, president of the '17 class, has chosen Vernon Bowersock, '17, manager. A program is being prepared which, it is hoped, will excel any of the previous Uncle Jimmy Day celebrations.
Sigma Alpha Epsilon announces the pledging of Howard Blum, c'20, of Kansas City; and Ola Thorpe, c'20, of Morganville.
FACULTY ENDORSES UNIVERSAL TRAINING
Unanimous Approval Expressed in Informal Meeting at University Club
WILL AID IN CAMPAIGN
A. L. Fridstein Explains Work of National League in Advocating Measure
Unanimous endorsement of universal military training was given last night at an informal meeting of representative faculty members at the University Club, following a talk by A. L. Fridstein, field secretary of the Universal Military Training League and former Chicago Tribune staff man. The professor, who is chair of the company, was appointed to a committee to promote the interests of the league at the University and to distribute literature on military training.
“An overwhelming majority of Americans are in favor of military preparedness in some manner, and the question now is, how shall we frame our preparedness legislation to be adequate in case of a national crisis,” said Mr. Fridstein in part. “Under present laws all men from 18 to 45 are subject to the call of the president in case of war. Under this system untrained men would be better armed than as there would be no time to train them and they would indeed be cannon fodder and nothing else.
NEXT CONGRESS TO CONSIDER "A short period of training for every able bodied young man at suitable age in life will give the nation a citizen soldiery ready to defend the country at any time. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the people to support the Chamberlain Bill introduced into the last congress and which will be introduced early in the next session.
"This bill provides for six months compulsory military training for all men at the age of nineteen, after which they are members of a reserve to be called out only in case of a national crisis. This service will destroy class feeling and sectarianism if it is met with melding or turn to out a unified nation. It teaches respect for law and all properly constituted authority and raises efficiency by curtailing the period of time wasted by young men.
MAY ADDRESS STUDENTS
"The military system has failed
and the secondary system has had
to be resorted in great crises as the
Civil War and the present European
struggle. The United States seeks
it, but it must be prepared for emergencies."
The International Polity Club is trying to get Mr. Fridstein to return to the university to address the students.
BEAUTY CONTEST CLOSES
Votes for Contestants Must be Registered by Six O'clock
Swamped with votes, in spite of valiant efforts of an extra helper in the office today, the Jayhawker management was obliged to keep many would-be voters waiting to pay for their annuals and register their preference in the Vanity Fair Contest which closes at six a'clock tonight.
"We are getting even more votes than we expected today," said Arnold Nordström, editor, for every one is invited to cast a vote. The count. The doors close promptly at six o'clock. There will be no further announcement of the standing of candidates until an indent Council meeting on weeks. The winners will be announced at that time.
KANSAS TOWNS ASK ABOUT
CITY MANAGER PLAN
"The plan, on the whole, has proved beneficial where it has been tried," said Homer Talbot, secretary of the Municipal Reference Bureau, this morning. "Wichita and El Dorado have adopted the plan while Winfield has rejected it. Arkansas City votes on the plan today."
The Municipal Reference Bureau of the Extension Division of the University has received a number of inquiries from Kansas towns as to the working of the new commission manager plan of city government. The bureau has sent out reports of the working of the plan in Dayton, Ohio; Springfield, Ohio; Jackson, Mich.; and a number of smaller cities.
Lieut. James Hughes will speak Wednesday night at 8 o'clock, in the Chamber of Commerce. He will talk on the shrapnel shell, the panoramic sight and the battery telescope. He will also discuss the new tenant Hughes is being brought here in order to create an interest in the organization of a battery here.