UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOLUME XIV.
DR. STRONG TALKS ON K.U. AFFAIRS TOMORROW
NO.109.
Will Discuss Recent Legislation Affecting University at Convocation Tomorrow
WILL BE SPECIAL MUSIC
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS, THURSDAY AFTERNOON, MARCH 8, 1917.
Liszt
Professor Preyer to Play "The Bird Sermon" by
A talk by Chancellor Strong on the recent legislation effecting the University of Kansas will feature the regular monthly convocation at 10:10 o'clock tomorrow morning in Fraser chapel.
"I have not fully understood what the substance of my talk will be," said Chancellor Strong this morning, "but it will concern the legislature and its attitude toward the University and education in general. Some of our much needed measures failed to pass the legislature, but we are especially glad of the success of the Permanent Income Bill. I am sure the people of Kansas will not hesitate to ratify the amendment when it comes to a vote."
The musical part of the convention program will be furnished by Prof. Carrier Prayer, professor of piano at The Bristol Conservatory and play "The Bird Sermon," by Lisx.
The convocation tomorrow will be the first since December 8 when the program was in the hands of the County Club Union for the purpose of boosting the Permanent Income Bill. The success of that meeting became apparent with the passage of the bill yesterday.
CLASSES TO BE SHORTENED
Holidays and special convocations took up so much time that the regular convocations for January and February were dispensed with. The special meeting of men students and faculty members came December 13 and January the following year, the occurred several holidays and the convocation for women. In consequence of these events the authorities felt that time could not be spared for the regular convocations.
Classes will be shortened ten minutes tomorrow morning in order to meet the time. The thought conventions will be held regularly the remainder of the year.
K. U. BAND WINS APPLAUSE
Concert of Patriotic Pieces Pleases Large Audience in Fraser Hall
The University Band gave the first free "pop" concert last night in Fraser Chapel. Director J. C. McCanles chose an appropriately patriotic program. The first number was Sousa's "Stars and Stripes Forever" and the last was "America." The band took on an anthem to the accompaniment of the band. A cornet solo, "Columbia," by Francis D. Gare pleaded the audience
The two movements from the "Dance Suite" by Tschakoff had a lighter motif and were artistically played by the band.
A few weeks ago, Stuart Walker presented "The Gods of the Mountain". Everyone who saw this performance will remember the dramatic and tragic awfulness when the gods of the mountain were on stage and terrible, on the stage. One piece by the hand, a selection from the opera "Robert le Diable" by Meyerbeer gave the same impression of terror that Dunsany portrays in "The Gods of the Mountain". There is a melancholy foreboding in this selection that Mr. McCanies did not fail to recognize in training his musicians. He was also the director of "Dance Suite" by Tachakoff had a灯照 motif and were artistically
Students Visit Penitentiary
Thirty students of the class in Social Pathology, accompanied by W. D. Bodenhafer, instructor in sociology, to leave Leavenworth today, to visit the penitentiary for the purpose of getting into close touch with crime and its causes, some of the things they have been studying. They will visit the prison where they were inmated and the state penitentiary at Lansing this afternoon.
K. A. of S. May Get Funds
Indications are that the Kansas Academy of Science will get its appropriations in spite of the fact that it was left out of the budget. "A majority of the representatives and senators are in favor of granting the money to the organization," she said, probably not be known until sometime tomorrow whether the funds will be appropriated for this organization.
Prof. E. B. Miller of the department of mathematics was called to Boulder, Colo., yesterday on account of the illness of his mother. Other instructors of the department will teach in his place until his return.
MONDAY LAST DAY TEAMS
CAN ENTER H. S. TOURNEY
Entries for the tenth annual Inter-scolastic Basketball Tournament, to be held in Robinson Gymnasium, March 16 and 17, will not be accepted because of the distance from the high schools of the state mail not later than Saturday will be honored by the Athletic Association and their teams allowed to enter the tournament regardless of the time matters reach W. O. Hamilton's office.
"More than sixty teams will compete in this tournament," said C. E. Randolph, secretary to Manager Hamilton. "We are expecting this tournament to be the biggest that has ever told us at the University of Kansas."
NO DORMITORIES FOR KANSAS THIS YEAR
House Killed Measure Providing for Women's Houses at State Schools
The House Measures providing for the establishment of women's dormitories at the state educational institutions, were finally killed by the lower branch of the state legislature yesterday afternoon.
The measures were killed by the House last week, but came up again as Senate measures yesterday afternoon. Wilmoth, of Cloud county, made a long speech in favor of the measures, which he did weekly. He was followed by White, of Saline county, who also appealed to the House to pass the measures.
WILL TRY AGAIN IN 1919
Though the measures have been lost as far as this session of the legislature is concerned, those who have been supporting them are not discouraged. They point to the passage of the Permanent Income resolution as an example of what may be accomplished by persistent effort, and the use of the preparations required for preparing to bring the measure up at the next session of the legislature.
CONCERT GIANT SUNDAY
FOR BELGIAN RELIEF FUND
Mrs. Ina Few Longfellow, soprano,
and Joe T. Marshall, baritone, under
the auspices of the Kansas Belgian
Relief Fund Committee, will appear
at the Bowersock theater, Sunday
afternoon, March 11, at four o'clock.
There are many opportunities in
the relief of starring Belgian children,
many of whom, at this time, are
entirely without food. The undertaking has been endorsed by Governor Capper and is backed by many of the leading men in the country.
WHITSON ROOGERS ENTERED
IN ORATORICAL CONTES'
Whitson Rogers, c'19, will go to Baldwin Friday to enter the State intercollegiate Prohibition Oratorical Contest. Delegates from seven colleges and universities will attend. It promises to be one of the strongest intercollegiate contests held in Kansas this year.
The local organizations from Washburn, Ottawa, Kansas Wesleyan, College of Emporia, Miltonvale Wesleyan, Baker University, and the University of Kansas will be represented in the contest.
Spanish Club Initiates
La Genite De Bronce, the new Spanish Club, organized for the purpose of giving its members a better acquaintance with the language, held initiation yesterday. The charter gardener, Donte Doettler, the gardener Gardner, Cecil Ritter, Irene Stratton and Pedro Sevilla. The new members initiated yesterday are Maybelle Gordon, Irene Fowden, Gage Frick, Cliff Courtet, James Reinhart, and Professor Skidmore. The next meeting will be one of social activities. Two teachers Alice Davis and Howard Demuth, will be initiated.
"Ralph Roister Doister" was chosen by the Blackfriars last night as the play to be given about the middle of May. After a discussion of several plays and a partial out-try, "Ralph Roister Doister" was decided upon, and arrangements were made for the final try-out at the next meeting. Four new members were taken into the club.
Decides on Play
Tryouts for the three act German play, "Der Geheime Sekretär," will be held Friday, Saturday and Monday. The play will be produced by students in the department of German. Miss Margaret Hockkerfer is in charge of the play. There are fourteen different parts. Judges for the tryouts will be selected from the faculty in the department of German.
Tryout for the German Play
Dean F. W. Blackmar of the Graduate School will lecture at Council Grove Thursday night and Friday afternoon, while night he will lecture at White City.
COUNT ILYA TOLSTOY WILL LECTURE HERE
Son of Famous Philosopher to Tell of Intimate Side of Father's Life
SOW ON TOUR OF AMERICA
Extension Division Closes Negotiations for Lecture, on Regular University Series
Negotiations were closed shortly before noon today to bring Count Ilya Tolstoy, second son of Count Leo Toystoy, the late Russian novelist and philosopher, to lecture here in Fractional tomorrow afternoon at 4:30 o'clock.
Count Tolstoy's representative was in Lawrence this morning and closed the lecture deal with F. R. Hamilton, lead of the Extension Division of the University. Mr. Hamilton has been trying for some time to bring Count Tolstoy into only today that the proposition was closed and the lecture date assured.
Count Tolstoy comes to the University as the representative of the philosophy expressed by his father. In his lecture tomorrow he will tell of the unknown side of his father's life, the burden that he even the readers of his father's works.
Of all Tolstoy's sons none is perhaps better able to tell of the life and process of thought of the noted Russian. In his appearances he resembles his father. But what especially qualifies him is the fact that most of his life he lived at home in close relationship with his father. The inner side of the life of the great Russian who loved liberty and delivered a message of love to the world are known to the son, and it is these thoughts that the son, the young Count Tolstoy, is bringing in his lecture tour to America.
WILL TELL OF FATHER
The lecture will deal with the history of the man and his struggles, his excommunication from the Russian church, his departure from home his
GIVES HISTORY OF TOLSTOY
HASH HOUSE MAGNATES MEET
Members of the faculty and students are delighted to have this opportunity to hear and feel the influence such a man as the younger Tolstoy.
Major League Troubles Dwindle Before Those of Local Managers Who Meet Today
The petty problems and troubles of Ban Johnson, Garry Herrman, and others of the National Commission will sink into insignificance when compared to those dealt with by the 1917 season. The afternoon to organize for the 1917 season. The signing of holdouts of the caliber of Cobb, Jackson, and Speaker is child play when compared to the problem of equipping twenty with necessary bats, balls, and uniforms, may the managers of the "Prune Eaters."
INCOME BILL READY FOR VOTE OF STATE
But there will be a meeting, nevertheless, this afternoon at four-thirty o'clock in the Kansas office and the outlaw league will launch out on its spring season. Quizzes coming the next week will take the Hash-Housers to Florida or California for training, but players claim they are ready without training. Arrangements will be made today for securing fields, for negotiating aid from the Athletic Association, and lastly, for finding some charitable gift that will furnish the loving cup or the big feed for the pennant winners.
Travelogue Will Be Given Monday "Among the Blackfeet in Glacier National Park" is the subject of a lecture by Dr. Jeffrey Mitchell Kitchall morning at fourthirty o'clock in Fraser Hall. Illustrations will be made by the use of hand-cropped stereotype views and motion pictures. Mr. Kitchall comes with the anecdips of the University, and his illustrated talk will be given free.
Miss Jess Roberts of Okmulgee, Okla., is visiting her sister, Mary Roberts c'18. Miss Roberts graduated from the Bell Memorial Hospital and since then she has been practicing her profession in Oklahoma.
Weddell to Give a Second Talk
Dutch Weddell will give the second
of a series of lectures in Myers Hall
Wednesday, March 14. Dutch will
talk on "Other Things About K. U."
and listen to "On Wednesday"
on "Things About K. U." It is by request that he is continuing
this series of lectures. A third and
probably a fourth talk will be given
later in the year along the same line.
A mend ment to Constitution Passes House by 85-35 and Senate by 27-9
JAP GLASCO LEADS FIGHT
County Clubs and Alumni of State Schools Give Strong Support
Support
The Permanent Income Bill, when passed the House yesterday by a vote 85 to 35, will be submitted to the vote of the people at the next general election as an amendment to the bill. It was passed by the Senate late Wednesday, 27 to 9. Two-thirds vote was required in both houses.
Friends of the bill will now start a campaign to show the voters of the state that such an amendment is needed. The County Club Union will renew the fight that has been so successful in the legislature. It was because the Union at K. U. organized all state schools the StudentAthlete Union was formed, binding all of the state schools in a campaign.
GLASCO ORGANIZED FIGHT
Much credit is due Willard Graves, president of the K. U. County Club Union and of the Student-Alumni Union, for the active part he has played in helping to conceive the idea of getting all of the schools together in a union and so organized the union here it was stronger than it ever has been. In the hard fight going on in the legislature the past two weeks he took an interest in the work of its closest insistent in his efforts during practically every minute of the contest.
The success of the income bill has also been due to the work of the Men's Student Council, the W. S. G. School, and the alumni of the state schools, and Chancellor Frank Strong. The campaign for the new plan of appropriating money for the state schools in the county last fall by the County Club Union.
BILL ALLOWS STEADY GROWTH If a majority of the people vote in favorably the bill will become a law. Illinois, California, Wyoming, where it has been tried it has been a great success mainly because it has permitted the progress of the schools in improvements, buildings, a healthy school, and the retention of the best professors in the schools at a decent salary.
Chancellor Frank Strong has received a letter from Captain G. C. Marshall Jr., aide-de-camp, to Major General Bell, expressing the appreciation of Mrs. Funston for the telegram of sympathy and condolence of his mother to the death of General Funston by the faculty and students of the University.
"Mrs. Funston is so prostrated by her sudden bereavement that she is unable to write to you herself. She wishes me to express to you and to the faculty and students of the University her sincere appreciation of your telegrams of sympathy and condolence which touched her deeply.
Sincerely yours,
G. C. Marshall Jr.
Camp. Army.
Aide-de-Camp to Major
General Bell."
Chancellor Strong Receives Letter Expressing Appreciation of Telegrams of Sympathy
In Kansas the bill provides for a special tax of less than a mill, thus doing away with the money which is appropriated by the legislature every general state taxes. The advantage to the state tax it means a permanent and dependable growth and an income which the state schools can always be sure of getting. According to the bill the money will be divided even among the schools to the enrollment. The schools may pay a two years outside of the regular appropriation which will be obtained through the new bill.
MRS. FUNSTON SENDS THANKS
An example of how strongly the force of habit binds the average person, is displayed in Fraser, when students pass through the chapel a moment a day and look up every time at the place where the clock used to be.
George Coffin, c'20, will go to St. Louis Saturday for the Missouri Athletic Club track meet. Coffin will represent the K. C. A. C. and will run in the two mile relay. The K. C. A. C. team is matched with the Columbia and St. Louis Athletic Clubs in the race.
FRESHMAN DRAMATIC CLUB
PREPAREAS PLAYS FOR DANCES
The try-out for the freshman plays to be given by the Rock Chalk Jay Hawk Club, a freshman dramatic orator, played along fine, according to Ray Tournament of the society. The try-out for the one-act comedy, "Aroused at Last," was held last night, and tonight the try-out for "The Girl Who Paid the Hue"
Prof. Arthur MacMurray said this morning that the society is not a dramatic club, but only an organization which expects to furnish entertainment for its members some time in the future. The Dramatic Club is not open to freshmen.
BRAVE FIGHTING AND HARD WORK MAKES MAN
Dr. Burdick Thinks Students Should Earn Own Spending
Money
"When my boys left home to go to college, they left with the understanding that they must earn their own spending money," said Dr. W. L. Burdick, vice-chancellor of the University, in the course of his address, "Concerning a Man," in Myers Hall afternoon.
"To be brave does not mean that one must go around with a chip on his shoulder," said Doctor Burdick. "It really means that one should be ready to fight for his convictions. I have no sympathy for the sentiment, I don't raise my boy to be a soldier." No, he is pambay-pambay individual would refuse to take up arms to defend his country from aggression."
The typical man, Doctor Burdick pointed out as a third essential, must not be afraid to work. It makes no difference what he is working at as long as it is honest. Man can get almost anything by paying the price, and the price for most things in this world is effort.
"I furnished my boys with books, clothes, board, and other essentials, but not with spending money. They thought it was hard at first, but I have lived to have my boys tell me, "Dad, you did the right thing by us."
"The biggest thing in the ideal man is his religious faith," said Doctor Burdick. "I have been unable to find in all history any man who has left an imprint upon the world's affairs which has caused men to say, 'He was a man,' who did not believe in some power higher than himself."
To be a man in the true sense of the word, Doctor Burdick pointed out, his brave, braver, perseverant, industrious, religious and of an up-right character.
"UNDER COVER" MAY BE
TAKEN TO TOPEKA OR K. C.
The Dramatic Club play, "Under Cover," which was given at the Bowersock last Thursday will be repeated in Kansas City or Topeka if he wins. The play did not make expenses when given here and Manager Frank McFarland is formulating plans to repeat it to make up the deficit. The play would be given under the auspices of a celebration in one or both of these cities.
In the past the Dramatic Club has not made any trips to other towns on account of objections of the University Senate. Other schools of the state have presented plays in over the state and find this an effective way of advertising the school. This year the dramatic club at Washburn is going to make an eight or ten days tour of the state.
NEW Y. W, C. A. OFFICERS
ASSUME DUTIES APRIL
At the annual election of officers of the Y. W. C. A. Mary Brownlee was elected president; Margaretta Stevenson, vice-president; Lena Rogers, secretary; and Luella Varner, treasurer. The new officers will take their places April 1 to serve one year.
The committee to nominate officers for the next Y. M. C. A. election is up of five students and three faculty members. Appointed were Harry Harlan, Lawrence Nelson, Harlan Russell, Freeman Havinghurst and Walter Kauder. The faculty members will be appointed by the board of directors at their meeting tomorrow night.
KANSAS TRIMS AGGIES IN ONE SIDED MEET
The University Librarians will be glad when warm weather comes and the women quit wearing their muffs. More reference books disappear in muffs than in all other ways combined, one of the librarians said.
Orders for commencement invitations were taken from senior engineers yesterday at the Engineering Building. Present conditions in the manual author may make early orders for anything in this line necessary.
A Daily Letter Home—The Daily Kansan.
Jayhawkers Take Ten Firsts and Seven Seconds in Walkaway Contest
AGGIES SHOW POOR FORM
Manhattan Team Able to Score 14 Points Against Varsity Last Night
The Jayhawkers swamped the Aggie track team last night in the annual dual meet in Robinson Gymnasium by a one-sided score of 71 to 14. The team won six events, a second in another, and four other firsts. The Farmers won one first and three seconds. Casey was individual point winner for K. U., with a first in the low hurdles and a second in the high, netting eight points.
The Aggies made their strongest bid in the hurdles, Wilder winning first in the high and second in the low, twice in the middle. They beat the K. C. A. C. meet, and Enlow, the Manhattan man, beat him out of second place. In the shot Safer beat Casse out of a place after Small had thrown a event with a put of 39 feet $3\frac{1}{2}$ inches.
PILE UP BIG LEAD
After this Kansas had the meet its own way. Keys, hoped to show well in the half-mile, was beaten by nearly two-thirds of a lap in this race. Sproull nosed out Keys for second place in this race, by running one of the lanes twice. That he did is Sproull's first attempt at this distance. Stateler, also was shifted and ran in the mile, as well as the two mile. He ran an easy second in the mile with Howland, who won the event running his first mile for Kansas in fine style. Stateler finished the race. The Aggie two miler was forced to drop out in this event after the thirty-first lap.
Wilder stayed in the high jump until the bar was raised above 5.10% Rice did some excellent jumping last night and tied with Treweteake at 5.11%. In the 440, O'Leary and Welan ran an excellent quarter against Holroyd, the star Aggie quarter miler.
STORY
Crowley and Howland placed the two new K. U. men to run in the meet and both did fine work. Howland ran an excellent mile, winning first for the Jayhawkers while Crowley placed a (Continued on page 4)
DISTANCE MEN STAR
"100 MEN AT ESTES PARK"
Slogan of Y.M. for Summer Conference-Special Train
From K. U.
The Y. M. C. A. is planning to have a hundred men to represent the University of Kansas at the Estes Park Conference from June 8 to June 18. Arrangements are being made for a special train for K. U. students. Mr. Carney, the Union Pacific Passenger agent for this division says that a special train may be obtained for seventy-five fares.
The plans for securing a hundred delegates have already been formulated. Each of the churches will be asked to send a delegation. The initiative will be sent ten students, the Methodist church fifteen, the Congregational church ten, and other churches in proportion to the number of students attending that church. Every fraternity, social or professional, will be expected to send strong representation will be expected from every school in the University.
TRENCH NEWSPAPERS ADDED
TO JOURNALISM COLLECTION
Several copies of trench newspapers have been given to the department of journalism by Herbert Flint, who was killed while he was in France last summer.
The papers, which are only small sheets, are edited and printed by the men in the trenches. They bear such names as Dugouts, TeXe-Mail, and "Face the Maitre." The place of publication in one instance is given as "Wherever We Happen to Be." The little papers are filled with verse, jokes, reports of activities in the trenches, and uncompulsory references to the enemy.
Mrs. Naismith Improves Rapidly Mrs. James Naismith who underwent an operation for appendicitis two weeks ago, is improving rapidly, Doctor Naismith said this morning. No further complications have set in and at the present rate she will be up again in a few weeks.
Maurice Benedict, spc', has with-
draw from school to take position in
the game.