UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOLUME XIV.
COMPANY "M" MAY BE REORGANIZED
Will Either Disorganize or Transfer to Engineering Company
FACULTY IS INTERESTEL
NUMBER 93
Captain Jones and Dean Walker to Meet With General Martin
Company "M" may become an engineering company, according to the statement of Capt. F. E. Jones this morning. From now until the spring inspection the company will hold its annual inspection. From now until the inspection it will either be disorganized or will be transferred to the engineering branch of the service.
"We have permission to do this," said Captain Jones, "but final arrangements for the transfer have not yet been completed." Captain Jones and Dean P. F. Walker of the School of Engineering will go to Topeka tomorrow to confer with General C. I. Martin regarding the transfer.
"K. U. MOST LIKELY PLACE
In accordance with the National Defense Act of June 3, 1916, Kansas is authorised to employ engineers. Each company must have as officers a captain, two first lieutenants, and a second lieutenant who are either graduates of an engineering school, practising engineers, or members of a national engineering college, likely that this is the only point in the state, aside from Manhattan where the Agricultural College is located, that officers could be found and it is not likely that they would care to organize such a company, since already have a regiment of cadets."
Several professors in the School of Engineering are interested in the move. Among these are Dean Walker, F. E. Johnson, of the department of electrical engineering, R. L. Grider, of the department of mining engineering, A. H. Sluss and J. O. Jones of the department of mechanical engineering, the faculty members of the School of Engineering who are interested in the project will be held at Marvin Hall this afternoon.
FILL BANKS WITH ENGINEERS
If the change is made, the men who are now members of the company will likely transfer, and the remainder of the required sixty-five men would probably be recruited from the School of Civil Engineering. The engineer twelve sergeants and ten corporals are required, and all the men now in the company would likely be used as noncommissioned officers. Company "M" under its present organization has usually had students as lieutenants, but this will be impossible if the transfer becomes the high requirements necessary for officers in engineering companies.
Company "M" at present has neither a first or second lieutenant, so it is probable that in case an engineering company is organized, the remaining three officers will be taken from the School of Engineering. Some of the faculty men of this school have had military drill.
TWO INSTRUCTORS RESIGN
Resignations of two faculty members were accepted by the Board of Administration Friday. Prof. Earl O'Roke, instructor in the department of zoology has accepted a similar position in the University of Wyoming. A graduate degree and advanced advancement are the reasons given for the change. Prof. O. L. Maig, instructor in the department of chemistry, has resigned to go into commercial work. Both of these resignations are to take effect February 12. Professor O'Rake's successor has not yet been announced. Those to be assigned MsMaig will be distributed among the other members of the chemistry faculty.
On account of the large number enrolled in some of the other departments assistant instructors have been added. Kenneth Pringle has been appointed as an academic oricer, Ernest E. Tippen assistant in physics, and Hazel N. Rice and O. J. Weir assistants in mathematics. Gerhard Baerg has received the appointment of instructor in German, to take part in teaching courses who has secured a leave of absence.
Board of Administration Fills Vacancies
Hugh Marshall and Carl Walker have been appointed student assistants in the water and sewerage industry of the department of chemistry.
The regular meeting of the geology club will be held in Haworth Hall tomorrow afternoon at 4:30.
PROFESSOR WILL TALK ON
FRENCH POLITICAL PARTIES
A lecture on "Forty Years of Political Evolution in France; The Political Parties Under the Third Republic" will be given by Dr. Albert de Lapradeille, March 5, at 4:30 o'clock in Fraser Hall.
Professor de Lapradelle took his doctor's degree in the University of Paris in 1891. He became professor of international law first in the University of Paris and then at the University of Paris. Since 1905 Doctor de Lapradelle has edited "The Recuclie des Arbitrages Internationalaux" and since 1909 "The Revenue De Droit International Prive." He was French visiting professor at the University of Columbia in 1912 and received an honorary doctor's degree there.
When Stuart Walker brings his Portmanteau Theatre to Fraser Hall Monday, Feb. 19, for the benefit of the Student's Loan Fund, the University will be unanimous to take a straight strait to that land of "Makabeleve" which few have ever visited since they were small. It is Mr. Walker's purpose to awaits the romance and imagination of young girls with delicate and fanciful little phases.
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS, TUESDAY AFTERNOON, FEBRUARY 13, 1917.
The Portmantane Theatre is a completely equipped portable theatre which can be set up in halls, drawing rooms or balconies. Mr. Walker has accomplished most
STUART WALKER
COMES MONDAY
Presents Fanciful Plays Tha Awaken Romantic Imagination of Youth
artistic and original staging and lighting effects. One feature is the absence of footlights and the diffused light.
Although the Portmanteau players have no stars, the cast is composed of some of the most artistic of the young actors in the country, such as Gregory Kelly as the "Boy", in "Six Who Pass While the Lentil Bells"!
A scene from "Gammer Gurton's
"Needle," by the Portmanteau Theater
Mr. Walker who amused himself with a toy theatre in his childhood in Covington, Kentucky, has at last per-
(Continued on page 4)
AMERICANS LED BY WRONG IDEALS
Rush for Money Dulls Sense of Beautiful, Says Hol-
INFERIOR TO ORIENTALS
Japan and China Fast Approaching Civilization of the United States
"America will lose its much boasted of civilization to despised China or Japan unless we hesitate in our mad rush for money and material goods," said Stoutton Holborn in a 2015 interview on "The Need of Art in Life."
Mr. Holborn contended that the greatest need of our modern civilization is a sense of the beautiful. Every civilization, he said, should be composed of three well balanced disciplines, the scientific, the intellectual and the moral.
Mr. Holborn said only the Greek civilization had all three of these in the correct proportions. The Italians at the time of the Renaissance had the artistic and the intellectual, but lacked in the moral. In our own time we have have the intellectual and moral, but have lost our sense of the artistic.
GREEKS WERE PERFECT
"The fact," he said, "is due to our materialism and sensationalism. The streets of Athens in the golden age of Greece contained more beautiful statues than they contained people on ordinary occasions, but in our age there are even more pictures of advertisements of somebody's soap or to some sensational movie.
Another evidence of our senat-
tation's attentions and stories
in modern newspapers.
AMERICA SENSATIONAL
It is vulgar to be rich, he said, because it shows we don't know when it comes. "I think it's vulgar."
Mr. Holborn, who has just returned from Japan, said the Japanese have a well developed sense of the beautiful. The large cities, he said, had no slums, and no screeching advertisements are to be seen along the highways. The dress of Japanese women is more beautiful and sensible than the dress of American women, which he terms ugly and in poor taste.
The Supreme Court held that as the Board of Administration was not incorporated at that time, it was not legally responsible for the acts of the Board of Regents. The Board of Regents controlled the University at the time of the removing of this fossil from the farm. The fossil is now on exhibition in the University Museum.
The Botany Club will meet at 7:30 tomorrow night in Snow Hall. Miss Gladys Lukan, a student in the dean's research group of her research on "Crown Gall."
Supreme Court Decided In Favor of University
Garrity owns a farm in Wallace County. About four years ago, a curator, aided by several University of Kansas students removed the remains of some animal of the prehistoric ages from the Garrity farm, so Garrity contended in the suit he brought for damages.
An eighteen million year old fossil will be retained by the University of Kansas without paying Peter L. Garrard $2,500 for it. The Supreme Court Saturday upheld the Doughs County District Court in refusing Garrity's demands of the state board of administration for that sum.
Will Finish the Administration Building if Committee's Report is Taken
CHANCES BRIGHT FOR MORE ROOMS
RAPS SCHOOL LOBBYISTS
Representative Martin Asks That House be Let Alone
Representative Martin, of Hutchinson, speaking in the House yesterday complained of the lobbying being done by the University and stated that he believed the University should receive more money, but that the legisla-
tor should not be responsible for the lobbying done by state schools. The House warmly applauded him.
A blanket increase of nine per cent for maintenance and salaries of all schools has been agreed upon, it is said, by the committees. Upon this basis the University would receive $642,555 for 1918 and $653,555 for 1919. It received $629,500 in 1916 and $653,500 in 1917, all amounts for the same purpose. $6,000,000 are spent annually on Kansas roads and bridges.
The University of Kansas will probably receive $150,000 for new class rooms if a reported agreement of the ways and means committee is adopted by the state legislature. It is understood that the University will use this money for the main wing of the new Administration Building.
VOTE FOR CONVENTION MAY PASS
Final vote on the resolution to enable voters of Kansas to decide the question of a constitutional convention will be decided in the Senate today. Twenty-seven votes are required for passage and at the last vote, the court was 25 to 15 in favor of submitting the question to the neoone.
Chancellor Frank Strong reported over telephone yesterday that the legislature then in session seemed to be only weakly in favor of the plans for building the main part of Administration Building. The committees are reported to have agreed on $50,000 for a new chemistry building and $80,000 for more land at the Marquis. The committee also $200,000 for a new building to replace the one which burned at the Pittsburg Normal School.
If the constitutional convention is held it is quite likely that the features of the Permanent Income Bill will be made a part of the new constitution. If the Income Bill becomes a state law in this manner, the present struggle for appropriations in the legislature every two years will be abolished.
ENGINEERING PROFESSORS
GO TO VALLEY FALLS
Dean P. F. Walker and Prof. G. C. Shaad, of the School of Engineering, plan to go tomorrow to Valley Falls, where their advice has been asked with regard to putting in an electric lighting plant.
Dean Walker, will speak to the Commercial Club in the evening on the development of manufacturing industries, and Professor Shaad will discuss the feasibility of establishing an electric lighting plant in Valley Falls.
Many engineering students and several members of the faculty are attending the motor show in Kansas City, this week. The Mechanical Engineers plan to feature the Motor Show for several weeks in their construction course having special talks on the progress made in motor car construction.
Engineers To Motor Show
The Weather
Unsettled weather tonight and Wed-
sday, somewhat colder tonight, and in
the morning.
UNABLE TO SUPPLY DEMAND FOR GRADUATE ENGINEERS
"It is harder to find graduate electrical and mechanical engineers than it is to find the positions for them," said Dean P. F. Walker, of the School of Engineering, today. "This is especially true of the Mechanics for there have already been more positions than we will be able to fill this year."
The Westinghouse, Central and Western Electrical Companies have already made applications for graduates, both from the electrical and the mechanical departments. Every year two to six graduate students go to these companies where they have opportunities for rapid advancement.
DISMISS CLASSES FOR CONVOCATION
The adviser feels she should have the opportunity to talk in her official capacity to the women of the University at least once in a semester and such a meeting as this one will inclure them in discussion and make it more valuable to women.
Mona Clare Huffman, president of the W, S, G, A., will speak very briefly concerning the attitude of the Stuart Association toward women's activities.
All classes will be dismissed while Mrs. Eustace Brown, adviser of women, answers the question, "Why," before the woman's convocation at 10:10 Friday. This "Why" is not merely a question—it is rather a solution to some of the problems which are confronting University women.
"This is the first time a convocation hour has been given to women exclusively," said Mrs. Brown this morning, "and we will have things to discuss which are as vital although not quite so thrilling as those the men discussed at their 'naughty rally' convocation."
Problems
SOLDIERS GET MORE PAY
Men Will Loaf While Adviser and Women Solve Weighty
Militiamen Expect Extra Pay for Summer Work
Members of Company M may each receive over sixty dollars extra pay for their services on the border last summer, if an appropriation bill introduced in the state legislature is passed. One legislator found there was a law on the statute books which provided that members of the guard when called into service should receive the sum of one dollar per day, the same as the rate on state day, and the bill which has been introduced is intended to make up the difference between the state rate and the federal rate of pay.
Members of Company M have not yet received money spent for carfare in reaching Lawrence when the call was made. Every guardman is entitled to carfare in reaching his home and is required to bring to law, and money for this purpose will also be to be appropriated by the legislature. In the case of Company M, the item of carfare was a large one, as the company at the time of the call was widely scatched in New York, California, West Virginia, Georgia, Ohio, Indiana, Iowa, Missouri, Oklahoma, and Kansas.
House Would Give $150,000 For Administration Building
Dr Gray Will Address Y. W. C. A.
The Rev. Dr. M. M. Gray, of the Grand Avenue Church of Kansas City, Mo., will address the周一的 meeting at 4:30 today. Dr. Gray's subject will be "The North American Student After the War, What?" Miriam Merritt is the leader.
WIN RAGGED GAME FROM WASHINGTON
Poor Work Mars 34-26 Victory in First of Two Game Series
Washington U. opened the scoring when Thomas, the Washington center, threw a free goal on a technical foul on Lytle. Thomas repeated with another free goal after two minutes of play.
THREW A SCARE INTO K. U.
Pikers Outplay Jayhawkers in Second Half But Rally Falls Short
The Jayhawk quintet tied up for second place in the Missouri Valley championship race last night by defeating the Washington University five in Robinson Gymnasium by the score of 34 to 26.
Laslett tied the score at two-and a with a long field goal from the sidelines. Thomas threw another free goal, and Benway, the Washington U, left forward, bagged a field goal before the Jayhawkers scored again.
HAWKERS STAGE SPURT
Gibbens, Kansas right forward, tied the score in the middle of the first half when he caged a long one and followed with a free one. Thomas added another free goal and the Jayhawkers began a bohmardment of the goal which netted them eight field baskets.
The Washington five came back strong in the second half and open! with a field basket by Benway, Scrubby Laslett connected with another field basket, and the Washington five piled up eleven points before Kansas scored again. During the entire half, Washington U. outplayed the team's defense department of the game, making a point of 20 to 13 for the Jayhawks. The half ended with the score standing 34 to 26 in favor of Kansas.
BOTH TEAMS FOREFM Both teams played rugged basketball from first to finish on the Jayhawkers were simply dead on their feet and no one seemed to play up to usual form. Long shots as the basket and unnecessary dribbling slowed up the game and kept the Kansas score down.
The box score was:
Total...15
KANSAS (34) G. FT. F.
Gibbens, rg 5 1 1
R. Uhrlaub, lf 1 3 0
Lytle, c 1 0 6
Nelson, rg (capt.) 3 0 5
Marti, tf 5 1 1
E. Uhrlaub, rf 1 0 0
Kauder,rf 0 0 1
Wilson, rg 0 0 1
Total...15 4 15
WASHINGTON (26)
Dunleary, rf 1 1 2
Borkum, if 3 0 4
Thomas, c 0 7 1
Miller, rg 1 0 2
Kling, lg 0 0 0
Stout, lg c 1 0 2
Kamp, lc 0 0 0
Total... 9
Referee, Sproull, Kansas.
MERCHANTS' COURSE ENDS
More Unity Shown Than in Previous Years
"Greater unity was present in the Merchants' Short Course just ended than was ever evident before," said Hankham, secretary of the Extension Division. "Every meeting was full of that spirit and the merchants liked the course." We are working more for the small-town merchant than the large-town store-keeper and this always keeps us busy. We also work with Wichita, and other larger cities."
More towns were represented than in any previous year. Not as many out-of-the-state merchants were enrolled.
Appreciation was expressed by every merchant of the course. The banquet given by the Lawrence merchants was successful. The mid-day lunches were well-attended. More women than ever were enrolled. The men had plenty to eat and were glad to give it to the merchants.
And they are coming back next year. That is the biggest thing.
Students Walk To Toneka
As a unique way of celebrating the birthday of the great Emancipator seven K. U. students walked to Topeka, Sunday night. They started at eight o'clock Sunday evening and arrived in Topeka at four Monday morning covering the distance of twenty-seven miles in eight hours. They rode on bicycles to nature." Those who went were Albert Christman, Jesse Sherwood, Arthur Lahey, Ray Cottrell, Neal Carman, Floyd Lynn and William Morris.