UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOLUME XIV.
NO. 110.
CHANCELLOR OPPOSES BREAKING BRYAN DATE
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS, FRIDAY AFTERNOON, MARCH 9, 1917.
Invitation Was Given Before Development of Present Crisis at Washington
RETRACTION NOT POSSIBLE
Bryan Would Not Force Personal Views on College Audience, Faculty Believe
The University in my opinion cannot honorably or wisely withdraw its invitation to Mr. Sweeney's next commencement address.
Frank Strong. Chancellor.
With this announcement issued yesterday afternoon by the Chancellor to members of the University Senate who opposed the coming of William Macdonald to deliver the commencement address in June the affair is at a standstill.
The resolution protesting against bringing Bryan to the University was introduced and seconded in the Senate meeting Tuesday afternoon. Immediate members of the Senate took the matter up and the resolution was tabled.
MAJORITY TABLE RESOLUTION
"A vote was not taken on the question of bringing Bryan to the University," said E. F. Engel this morning. "It was the resolution protesting the coming of Bryan that was tabled.
"The unfairness of the deal and the position in which this resolution if adopted would place the University was seen by the majority of the members of the Senate and they tabled the resolution. To pass the resolution would have been an expression of the narrow-mindedness of the University."
The invitation to deliver the commencement address was sent to Bryan by the committee before the national crisis had reached the present condition. Bryan accepted the invitation right at the time the country was excited watching events in Washington.
Arab Would Sell Sacred Purse for Three "Cokes"
SENTIMENT DIVIDED ON QUESTION
“Disregarding all views of politics, Bryan is hardly the man to force his own personal views on a college audience when he recognizes what is expected of him,” said Mr. Engel.
Student sentiment seems to be divided on the question. There has been plenty of talk on both sides. Downtown folks have talked much more than been given in most of the Kansas newspapers to the Senate protest.
Arabs are romantic and wear clothes. These clothes are cut very, very full and still have the smell of the great, vast, shifting desert which they left moons ago. And beards of real hair make their faces look like the map of the Black Forest Region in Germany. O those wonderful eyes' they are dream-laden and brilliant with mysticism. That's the way the kings from the "Garden of Allah" appeared while they were sipping "coles" at the fountain in a drug store on Massachusetts street.
"O, I have bin, long, long time from Arabia! Almos!, I guess, six monys!" Terrible! And without a ba—oh well—it must be remembered that these guards of Mohammed has the color of the guards of shifting desert clinging to him.
"Ah, the student! I have bin student, too. Back in Arabia. I have study for law. But, la! !a! I come to America and I like her well."
This Arabian Knight was named Maraha. Maraha took off his turban. Then, he beckoned a by-stander to come a little way apart.
"Sh-sh-sh-sh! Say naughting to a soul. "Thes ees a secret!" The voice came from behind the whiskers like steam escaping from a leaky radiator. And then Maraha's long, lean hand put the turban and withdrew a leather nouch.
"Here ees the sacred purse off Mohammed. I part with eet for feetin cents. O Allah forgere me, but I am poor, very, very poor!"
But the by-stander was sleepy and could not understand the significance that Mohammed's own purse might carry around with it. Maraha had seen a little something must have meant: "No one but God and I can know what is in my heart."
These Arabian Knights are delightful. Indeed they are!
PROFESSOR ESTES RESIGNS
TO BE CHEMIST IN OKLAHOMA
Prof. Clarence Estes, analyst in the food laboratory, has handed in his resignation to the chancellor and will leave for Bartlesville, Oklahoma about the March 15 to take a position as research chemist and engineer with the Henry L. Dyer Refining Company, and oil and gas concern.
Bartlesville has taken many K. U. students and graduates in chemistry und engineering for the gas and oil plants. E. L. Eyder, Roy Neil, and Joyd Jackson got positions there last year.
HIGH SCHOOL TEACHERS MEET HERE NEXT WEEK
Will Discuss Problem of Introducing Military Training in H. S. and Academies
"The nature, function, and organization of military training in American high schools" will be one of the important subjects discussed at the Fourteenth annual conference of Kansas High Schools and Academies, to be held at the University March 16-17.
Lectures touching various phases and treating on problems of education will be delivered in the two days of the conference. Those scheduled for the first day are: "Nature, function, and organization of military training in high schools" by James Naismith, University of Kansas. New school year is being prepared by W. D. Ross, State Superintendent of Public Instruction, and "The Parable of The Builder" by Grant Showmaner, University of Wisconsin
It is within the last year that the attention of the high schools have been attracted to the question of military training. Prominent educators have begun to consider it one of the biggest problems confronting the schools.
Two high school contests are scheduled to take place during the conference. The second annual high school typewriting contest will be held the afternoon of the sixteenth in Room 110, Fraser Hall. The final annual basketball tournament for state high school championship will take place the evening of the seventeenth in Robinson Gymnasium.
SING TO AID BELGIAN FUND
Kansas Relief Committee Wil Present Good Program at Bowersock Sunday
A benefit concert for the relief of starving Belgian children will be given by Mrs. Ina Longfellow, soprano, and Joe T. Marshall, baritone, in the Bowersock theater Sunday afternoon at four o'clock. The concert will be held at the Fund Committee in the Kansas Belgian Relief Fund Committee.
The plight of Belgian children is described as daily becoming more acute. There is an alarming increase in the number of cases of tuberculosis and other diseases in consequence of the inadequate food supply.
Herbert C. Hoover, one of the most public-spirited men of the day and chairman of the Commission for the Relief of Belgium, has assured the local committee that all funds received will be turned immediately into food and transported to Belgium without additional cost.
The undertaking has the endorsement of Gov. Arthur Capper and many of the leading men of the country.
Mrs. Olcott in concert
Mrs. Olcott, in concert, in voice in the School of Fine Arts, will sing in the "pop" concert to be given by the Kansas City Symphony Orchestra and Chorus in Convention Hall Sunday. Mrs. Olcott will sing in the dramatic aria from Saint Saul's Chorus and will perform that was widely known in the east as Miss Evelyn Fogg, a concert singer, before her marriage to Coach Olcott.
Mrs. Olcott in K. C. Concert
Other places have Pan-Hellenic dances as well as K. U. They call them Inter-Fraternity dances, however. Six of the fraternities of the University of Oklahoma joined in the giving of a dance of about a hundred couples last week "to remedy the antagonistic fraternity spirit."
The amusement for all-school parties at McGill is skating. At the last party given by the M. M. C, A. about one hundred students skated.
The Weather
Women's council, attired as French maids acted as hostesses at the woman's prom which was held in the Armory at Ohio State. The prom was a fancy-costume affair, given by the Women's Council. A prize was given to the couple wearing the most original costume.
Partly cloudy tonight and Saturday;
partly tonight; colder west portion
Saturday.
STUDENTS MUST TELL STATE SCHOOL NEEDS
Fight for Permanent Income Only Half Won by Passage in Legislature
LEARN TO TALK ON BILL
Alumni Should be Instructed Concerning Present Needs of Their University
"More than half done, but still a great deal to do." is the way Willard Glasco, chairman of the County Club Union, sums up the permanent income situation since the passage of the bill in the legislature.
"When the bill passed the House Wednesday afternoon, the fight was more than half won," said Glasco this morning, "but before the amendment is voted on by the people much will have to be done. And the students of the University and the other state institutions will have to do it.
The great majority of the students over the state do not realize that the
"If the amendment is turned down by the people of the state, we will be in a more embarrassing position than ever, because the legislators will then confront us with the argument that the amendment is in sympathy with the institutions."
DEFEAT NOW WOULD BE FATAL
Living in close relationship with his noted father, Count Ilya Tolstoy is especially qualified to speak of the great change that his father underwent. In his appearance he resembles his father and his literary productions show him to have inherited a portion of his father's literary genius.
fight is up to them, according to Glasco. Some of them cannot talk intelligently on the amendment and its advantages. Every student should study the amendment and be able to mention it understandingly, he believes.
WILSON, KANSAS GRAD. KILLED SALARY RAISE
No attempt was made to have the measure reconsidered by a conference committee, after Mr. Wilson explained the increase as a clerical error.
A University graduate can not honorably put political expediency before loyalty to the institution that gave him his degree.
"It items to me the students and alumni of the University do not watch these things closely," said Glaseco. "There is something radically wrong when we find our greatest opposition in the legislature coming from our alumni. We should be on the lookout for the best interests of the University at all times. We should not con-
tinue to tolerate the representatives who have been elected, but should see that the right men are sent to the legislature."
Count Leo Tolstoy, the great Russian philosopher, is lecturing on his father's life and work in Fraser Hall this afternoon. Count Tolstoy has been in America only a few months. He refuses to talk of the present war or his impressions of America. Count Tolstoy lives in this country in order to familiarize Americans more intimately with his father, the great Russian thinker and novelist, and to describe his last days and his departure from home at the age of eighty-two. A second purpose is to teach English, which judges Russia by her sensational and secondary writers. He would have America judge Russia by such writers as Tehekoff and Dostoivcak. The English translations of his father's works are not good, he says, owing to the fact that they were translated through the French.
OUNT TOLSTOY LECTURING
IN FRASER THIS AFTERNOON
There should be organizations formed in all state schools and officers elected this spring to look after the adoption of the amendment, according to Glasco. He believes the people will not hesitate to adopt the amendment if it is placed before them in the proper light, and this can be accomplished to a great extent by concerted action on the part of the students.
OUR OWN ALUMNI OPPOSE BILL
Chancellor Strong.
An inside story of the recent cut in the salary appropriation for the University of Kansas by the state senate seems to give Walter E. Wilson, a graduate of the University, and senator from Washington county, a prominent part in the proceedings of the Senate appropriation bill, the university of an increase of $15,000 a year in salaries. An increase of $15,000 annually was provided in the Senate appropriation bill, but the House scissored that, and instead of $475,000 annually, as was provided in the Senate bill, the maintenance appropriation for the University will be increased to $000 a year during the next two years.
Prof. W. A. Griffith is expecting a collection of nineteen original illustrations from New York within a few days. The pictures are by Walter Taylor, whose productions were used in "The Iron Woman."
Backs Up On Stand Made In Committee and Calls Increase Clerical Error
TOOK LAST HOUR STAND
"Smooth Politics" by Her Own Alumnus Cost University $30,000
OPPOSES OWN INCREASE Senator Wilson is chairman of the
Senate Ways and Means Committee. The night the Senate considered the appropriation bill, Senator Wilder Metcalf and Senator Paul H. Kimbali, both K. U. men, appealed for an increase in the salary budget.
"There has been an increase allowed for salaries of $15,000 a year," said Senator Wilson. "No more should be allowed."
And he won his fight. There was no disposition on the part of University friends to criticize Senator Wilson for his opposition to the appropriations. In his position as chairman of the Ways and Means Committee he naturally would stand by the committee report.
But Senator Wilson put forth a strong argument.
The cut of $1,500 was made in the House this week. That the increase was made through an error was the explanation made before this body.
"That $1,500 increase was a clerical error," said Senator Wilson. No attempt was made to have a confer- ment committee dispute the house reduction.
"Smooth politics" by an alumnus cost K. U. $30,000 during the next biennium. No salaries can be raised, and other universities will continue to attract the brightest members of the University of Kansas faculty.
NICOLES COMMITTEE'S DEBACED
The facts that Senatorenson called the incumbent, however, errored his statement in the Senate, in opposing a motion to increase the salary budget, that a $15,000 increase already had been approved by the joint Ways and Means Committees of the Senate and House. This statement was just before the close of the session thwarted any hope of a K. U. increase.
Dean P. F. Walker and Prof. G. C. Shad of the School of Engineering will motor to Manhattan tomorrow to attend a committee meeting of the Kansas Engineering Association. The work of this committee is to plan the work of the other committees in the association. The other members are L. B. Smith, of Topeka, and Frank A. Slack, of Beloit.
Engineers Go To Manhattan
KNOCKS COMMITTEE'S DECISION
Will Talk on Blackfeet
"Among the Blackface in Glacier National Park" is the subject of a travelogue to be given by Laurence D. Kitchell in Fraser Chapel, Monday at 10 a.m., which is given under the direction of the extension department of the University, will consist of colored slides, many of which have the dissolving phenomena seen in motion pictures. Each picture will be explained by Mr. Kitchell.
A Daily Letter Home—The Daily Daily Kansan.
WILL EXPLAIN STAND OF
NATION ON WAR CRISIS
Prof. W, W. W., of the department of history, will talk on the "Foreign Policy," Thursday afternoon, March 15, in Fraser Chapel. This is one of the lectures on the College Faculty. Course.
Professor Davis has his Ph.D. from Columbia University and has made a special study of political science relating to international affairs. His aim will be to clarify, as far as possible, the public opinion on what our attitude as a nation should be in the present crisis.
COURSE IN CARTOONING PROPOSED FOR SCRIBES
May be Offered as a Continua-
tion of Free-Hand Draw-
ing
ing
"A course in cartooning is very practical and should be taught in the University," is the opinion of Prof. William S. Hekking of the School of Fine Arts. "Cartoonists get big salaries and the man or woman with talent for drawing should develop along this line.
Prof. L. N. Flint of the department of journalism is another man believing in the practical value of a course in cartooning.
"A student must have preliminary training in drafting and sketching so that he will express himself with accuracy but if the talent is there this course in cartooning would be a good thing."
"The state owes to the students of her University a full opportunity to develop all their talent and I am heartily in favor of any such course. Good cartoons are the most potent factor of a newspaper and a good cartoonist often draws a larger salary than the managing editor. The man with the cartoon is better able to develop it along with getting a broad education offered in the University."
A course in free-hand drawing is offered at present. Thirty students are enrolled in the class. Ease in handling the pencil and accuracy are the main points taught in this preliminary class.
"A course in cartooning would be a good follow on this free-hand drawing course. The students with the talent would then go on into the more intricate part of the work."
PREP DEBATE FINALS FRIDAY
Hoxie and Mount Hope Will Meet to Decide High School Championship
the finals of the high school debate league will be held in Green Hall Friday night, March 16, when Mount Hope, of the eight district, meets Hoxie, of the sixth district. From a total of sixty-two high schools represented, these two schools have been successful in the elimination competition, winner of the debate Friday night will be presented with a loving cup.
The question for debate will be Resolved, that the federal government should own and operate the public schools in this country. The judges will be W. M. Duffus, associate professor of economics, C. A. Dykstra, associate professor of history, and U. G. Mitchell, associate professor of mathematics.
HEALTH ASSOCIATION WILL ORGANIZE BRANCH HER!
The following team from Mount Hope will present the affirmative side: Marge Tucker, Mildred Tihen, and Lola Hoover. The negated team is Emily McLloyd, Marie McKay Raymond Williams, and Marie McMenney.
A number of persons interested in the promotion of public health will meet in Lawrence Friday and Saturday, Jan. 17-20 at Kansas branch of the American Public Health Association. Dr. W. E. Evans, president of the American Public Health Association, will be present to assist in organizing the Kansas Ass-
Problems to be discussed include:
Sewage Disposal, City Sanitation, Organizing City Dairy Inspections, Milk Problems in Small Towns, School Sanitation, and Factory Sanitation.
Dr. S. J. Crumbine, secretary of the State Board of Health, will act as chairman of the meeting.
New Voltmeter for Electricals
A sphere-gap voltmeter, an instrument used to measure voltage on the high side of a transformer, was installed in the electrical engineering laboratory in Marvin Hall this morning. Harvey Hartley, engineer in laboratory. This instrument will be used for research work in the electrostatic field of porcelain insulators. It is one of the latest devices for work in this line.
LOYALTY OF GRADS IN LEGISLATURE NEEDED
Chancellor Strong Discusses Legislative Needs of State Schools
EXPLAINS MANAGER PLAN
Hope for Success of University Lies in State Manager and Permanent Income
The need of greater loyalty to the University by graduates of the institution in the state legislature was emphasized by Chancellor Frank Strong in his talk at convocation this morning.
"If K. U. graduates in the legislature were loyal, the state schools would have no trouble getting just treatment every session. I hope the expedition will not be put above loyalty by alumni legislators.
INADEQUATE APPROPRIATIONS
"We are disappointed with the appropriations of the present legislature. For many years the University has not had adequate appropriations, but we expect to see some radical changes in the system of appropriating."
The Chancellor then showed the amount of appropriation had been increased only $39,000 this year over the appropriation made by the legislature two years ago. He explained that this is an extremely small amount it view of the increased cost and profitability all materials. He said a pile of all efforts to get two separate buildings for the University, only one building was obtained, although the amount was increased to $225,000.
the president of the County Club Union, Willard Glasco, was praised by Doctor Strong for the excellent service he provided in the passage of the Permanent Income Act. He said it was largely due to Glasco's ability as an organizer and his persistent work that the bill was passed. Dr. Strong said the University of Topeka had many friends in Topela who worked voluntarily for the Income Bill.
STUDENTS MUST GIVE SUPPORT
"It is up to the men and women of the University and other state schools to get into the fight for this bill when it is voted upon by the people of Kansas in 1918. We have friends over the state who have influence for the school. If every student will fight for the bill this summer when he goes home, its success will be made much more certain."
"Tolerance in everything should be shown in the universities," Chancellor Strong concluded. "It is in these schools that men and women should develop broad-mindedness, and learn to tolerate views and ideas which conflict with their own. If tolerance is not found in our universities, there is little hope of finding it elsewhere in the world."
The chief provisions of the state manager law which was passed by the legislature this session were also explained. The governor under this law is responsible for the conduct of state schools. The new administrative board will make up the budgets and operations of the schools. The head of the school is also given more power in appointing officials under him.
WILL GIVE THREE LECTURES
Rev. O. C. Brown, to Present Last Message to University Students
Rev. O. C. Brown, who is leaving the ministry of the First Baptist Church to take up educational work in Philadelphia, will deliver a series of three lectures of special interest to students, beginning Sunday night. The subjects for the lectures will be "What Does a Life Calling Had My University Life to Live Over," and "What Does a Life Calling Mean to Me?"
The discussion will be based upon answers to these questions by seniors of the University to whom the Reverend Mr. Brown sent questionaires this week. He expects at least sixty per cent to send in the answers.
Mr. Brown has always been interested in the students. "I have been working with them for ten years now," he said this morning, "and I want to teach them how to intend to leave about Easter, I feel that this is my last opportunity."
At Philadelphia Mr. Brown will be editor of the adult department of Sunday School quarterlies. His special problem will be to promote Bible study among men and the application of the Bible to present-day problems.
Lucile Hovey, c'19, went to her home in Kansas City today to visit her parents several days.