UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOLUME XIV.
NUMBER 86
500 MERCHANTS HERE NEXT WEEK
Plans Near Completion for Fourth Annual Short Course
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS, THURSDAY AFTERNOON. FEBRUARY 1. 1917.
GOVERNOR WILL ATTEND
Store Management, Business Law Advertising, Mail Order Problems Accounting, and Salesmanship are the main topics around which the Fourth Merchants' Short Course, starting Monday, February 6, will be built. The University Extension Division has charge of all arrangements.
University Makes Preparation to Entertain Visitors From Over State
These meetings are not planned for the employer alone. The employee in all lines of goods will find plenly interest him. The Round Table, a feature dedicated two years ago will be continued. These conferences are informal.
Over fifty talks and discussion tables are scheduled for the week. A new section has been introduced in the Round Table department. This talking-machine section made necessary to keep machines being handled by merchants. Entertainment will be furnished every night by different departments of the University. Thursday night the merchants will be the representatives of the Chamber of Commerce. Governor Capper will speak Thursday night.
Seventy-five advance enrollment have already been made. Last year four hundred and fifty merchants from Kansas, Oklahoma, Missouri and Texas attended. Ninety-four district Director Hamilton estimates the attendance this year will be more than five hundred.
F. R. Hamilton, director of the Short Course advises the merchants to come Monday if they can only come one day. At the end of this first day he predicts that most of the merchants will telephone back that they are going to stay for the remainder of the week.
HAVE TWO SEMESTERS
A return to the old two-s semester school year from its present three- semester is embodied in the calendar for the State Agricultural College at Manhattan, recently published for the year 1917-18.
Aggies Incorporate Plan Similar to K. U.'s
The change is for the greater convenience of high school teachers, who form the bulk of the summer enrollees. The schools of the state. A six weeks summertime program provided. The new calendar provides that the school year shall begin the second Monday in September every year, and that the first semester shall begin on Saturday of the eighteenth week after the first Monday in September.
NOTED ART EDUCATOR
LECTURES HERE TONIGHT
This change in the calendar of the Agricultural College makes the school year there coincide with that at the State University, but, this change comes at a time when the faculty of K. U. is considering a four-quarter, twelve months school year for the University.
Prof. A. C. MacDougall, one of the prominent music educators in this country, will lecture tonight in Fraser Hall, and Mr. MacDougall will also though Mr. MacDougall is a composer and organist of high rank, he is best known as a music critic. He has made lecture tours throughout the United States; this is his second visit to Kansas.
His lecture on "Wagner and his Music" is one that he has given many times before student bodies of American universities. As Professor Macaw it is brought here by the School of Fine Arts, no admission will be charged.
Receives New Lah Equipment
Receives New Lab Equipment A new laboratory table for plant chemistry and two new tables for plant pathology with several other applications. The plant physiology room in Snow Hall. Since the new equipment has been added, the plant physiology laboratory is one of the best in the department of botany, according to Dr. Charles A. Shull of that department.
Grades Out Next Week
Grades will not be given out until some time next week was the word given out this morning by George O. Foster, registrar. All of the grades have not been turned in and it usually is ten days after a semester is ended before all of the grades are reported to the registrar's office.
CITY REFERENCE BUREAU
ANSWERS MANY QUESTIONS
The Municipal Reference Bureau of the University, which gives advice to towns and cities on street lighting, walks, water, sewage disposal and other public questions and utilities, has had a busy month in December with 14,000 residents having palities in Kansas and twelve other states. New York, New Jersey, Wisconsin, and Texas made the largest number of requests for information.
Fifty-two fields were covered in the work of the bureau during the month. Most of the requests concerned pavilion annexation of territory, and municipal light and water works plants. Seventy-six inquiries were answered.
MODERN SCHOOLS ARE DIFFERENT
Dr. G. D. Strayer Tells Par Played by Society in Educational Institutions
Taking for his subject, The Modern School, Dr. G. D. Strayer, head of the department of school administration at Columbia University, spoke to audience in Prasen Hall, at four-thirty o'clock yesterday afternoon.
What present day society demands of the modern educational institutions Dr. Strager treated at some length. Efficiency, he claims, is what the people are asking of the schools today.
"Many students cannot grasp abstract things and are unable therefore to take up the professions. Sufficient preparation, however, along with proper training in trade would make such students capable of carrying on their life work.
"The present day institutions of learning," Dr. Strayer said in part, "are radically different from the traditional schools of the past. Our problem being not to educate all students along the same line, but to give each that learning, that will best fit him for his life work.
"It is necessary that the difference in children should be recognized, and each student should follow that line in which he is the most proficient."
Dr. Strayer is one of the best authorities in America on school administration. He has written several books on educational problems.
HOW TO FIND OUT IF
SHE'S GOT A DATE
Without Letting Her Know.
Frater (calling up for a date):
"One-two-four, please. Hello, is Josephine there? May I speak to Josephine, How are you? You're well." How are you? You're well?
That's fine. Do you know who this is talking? You don't. Well, that sure makes me mad. It seems to me after you have lived in the same place, but it took an awful fail to find out. Say, who are you going to the dance with Friday night? Oh! I wanted to know so I could get a dance with you. You know I would rather舞 with you than most any boy. You're lucky man. Well, I'll see you Friday night. Be good. Good beye."
Frater then proceeds to call up another girl.
WOMEN BASKETEERS WILL MEET POLYTECH TEAM
The Junior girls' basketball team will meet a girls' team from Polytech in Kansas City Saturday afternoon at 3 o'clock. This will be the third time a team of Junior girls from K. U. has played a Polytech team. Last year the K. U. girls won both games.
The girls on the Junior team have played together three years. There are no individual stars on the team, but during the time they have worked together have developed strong team work. The girls who will play with each other in games are Tucker, Front, Brown, Querfeld, Endore, Sterling, and Liebengood.
H. D. Harper, assistant professor of accounting, will give five lectures next week before the Merchants' Short Course. Professor Harper will explain in detail the accounting and management problems of the small business with much useful. The subjects of the five lectures are as follows:
1. Purchase Records showing the cost of merchandise by departments.
2. Sales Records showing sales by departments.
Harper To Lecture
3 The Cash Receipts Book; The
Check Register; The Petty Cash
Register.
5. The preparation of the Balance Sheet and its Interpretation.
4. The Preparation of a Trading Stock showing the Profit or Loss by Department.
Dr. Rooseboom Scourges Teutons' Policies, Before Politty Club
BERATES GERMAN WAR MEASURES
WAS HUMOR AND PATHOS
Lecture Told of Comic and
Troubled Side of
War
Tragic Side of
That Germany not only broke her promises made to Belgium, but that she never intended to keep them, was the declaration of Dr. M. P. Rooseboom, of Halland, assistant secretary of the Court of Arbitration, at the Hague, before the International Polity Club at the Pi Upsilon house last evening.
"Strictly I am not neutral," said Doctor Roosebom, who has travelled through the warring nations on diplomatic missions, "but I try to be impartial and look for the facts. Of what use are international contracts intended to be kept? Even now, Germany is ready for new submarines, ready for business. When they will be let loose, I do not know."
FOR two hours Doctor Roosebom told of the war of wars he had seen it, having been in Belgium at the outbreak of war in 1914. The panic that seized the fleeing inhabitants as the Germans invaded Belgium; how false German news reported had poisoned the minds of German soldiers against the Belgians; the drunkenness among German offenders pretexts upon which whole towns were wiped out of human misery flowing into Holland—all these were pictured by Doctor Roosebom.
"Germany, in her heart of hearts, never wanted war," explained the doctor, in referring to the mass of German people. "If half the diplomats and newspaper men were fascinated that speedily come." The horrors of war still enshrined in spite of official ukases that such would not be attempted, and the electrified barb-wire wall built by Germans on the Dutch-Belgian frontier, were among the late phases touched. German students are learning Span- to be ready to make a run for South American trade after the war is over.
TELLS BELGIAN OUTRAGES
RELATED INCIDENTS
Humor was not absent. The doctor related how a Ford was taken from him by German officers and later released, and how thirty starved cats flocked around his car in a Belgian town. The speaker's foreign accent and gentlemanly bearing were augmented by a desire to use American expressions. He would say, "Skidoo you when everybody laughed, would ask, 'Why,' to can?' Although he is a pacifist, he says Holland is not "too proud to fight," holding 472,000 troops in readiness.
Doctor Rooseboom has been in America only three months. He is visiting here, as he says, "to complete my international education."
The date set for the play, "Under over, which is to be given by the bride," is
"UNDER COVER" WILL BE PRESENTED FEBUARY 29
Professor MacMurray, director of the play, said this morning that nothing is being left undone in an effort to make the production one of the best ever offered by the club. Some of the most experienced talent on the HIL make up the cast. Ada Dykes, 147, the leading lady. Miss Dykes has had induction plays given on the Hill. Otto Dittmer, 147, another of the leading characters, is playing in his third college play.
The Weir City School of Mines will live. This was assured yesterday by the defeat, in the committee on educational institutions, of a bill introduced by Representative Sellards, abolishing the School of Mines and transferring the equipment to the department of mining engineering at the University of Utah, dead unless it is taken up by the House and over the adverse report of the committee, a move which is considered improbable.
John M. Shea, superintendent of grounds and buildings, believes a man is discharging his full duty to society this kind of weather when he keeps himself warm. "No," said Mr. Shea, "we are not doing any building while the mercury does the shy, retiring stunt. My ambition doesn't reach that high. We recently completed a small shed for drying lumber, but aside from that construction has been decidedly slack."
John M. Reflects on Duty
School of Mines Will Live
PUT INCOME BILL UP TO SENATE
Permanent Income for State Institutions Would Result from Constitutional Amendment
Supported by All State Schools in Record Campaign
ENDS TWO MONTHS LOBBY
paign
The Permanent Income Bill, supported during the last two months by the united strength of the five large state educational institutions, was introduced in the senate yesterday by Senator R W. Coleman of Merriam. The bill was introduced as "an amendment to the constitution providing for a permanent income for the state educational institutions."
The amount of the levy for each school is not specified in the resolution presented yesterday, but is delegated to the school board. The proposed bill will relieve legislators of the necessity at every session of deciding anew what the running expenses of each institution shall be. The county club unions and simulators all of the state schools have been at work for months in behalf of the bill.
Willard Glasse, president of the County Club Union at K. U., returned the first of this week from a visit to Bradenburg which he says favors the proposal conferred with Mr. Bradenburg, president of the school. The problem is to form some plan of apologizing the money among the schools.
PITTSBURG FOR BILL
If the Permanent Income Bill is made a part of the new constitution, it will be more than four or five years before the state schools can derive any benefit from the proposed bill, while if the bill is made an amendment to the constitution the schools will be benefited much sooner. Because of the fact that the Income bill will have to be one of the three amendments of the opinion of a majority of the advice of the bill is that it will have a better chance of coming a law as a part of the new constitution which will be formed if the proposed constitutional convention is held.
LIKE EASTERN PLAN
Under a plan such as the Income Bill proposes, the state schools will have building programs like the Universities of Illinois and Ohio; good salaries; and class rooms and buildings will be provided.
WILL DIRECTOR BREWER LEAVE THE "TIGERS"?
Athletic Director Brewer may not leave the University of Missouri if certain plans of the merchants and business men of Columbia materialize. They plan to raise enough money to equal the salary offered by the athletic department College, which is fifteen hundred dollars more than his present income.
Brewer has made himself popular with both the students and the people of Columbia by his interest in the promotion of athletics at Missouri. Because of his popularity, the students some time ago offered to make up the deficiency in his salary by subscription.
W. H. Johnson, professor of education, and A. T. Walker, professor of Latin, will attend the meeting of the Southern Kansas Teachers' Association and Charles Chase and participate in this week. Professor Walker will deliver an address on "Co-operation in the Teaching of Foreign Languages." Professor Johnson, who is chairman of the University appointment committee, will speak at the School of Education and confer with the University graduates who are teachers in that section.
Attend Teachers' Meeting
Guardsmen Return
The Kansas Guardsmen who returned from the border too late to enter school the first semester have enrolled for the second. They are Joseph Ace, Stanton Smiley, Francis Campbell, BoyRust, Ivan Rice, Virgil Auchard, Dave Lupher, Percy Bruce, Bruce Crawford, and Capit, Peter, was commander of "K Company, First Kansas Infantry, of Garnett, Kas. He is entering K. U. for the first time, and comes with advanced standing from Northwestern State Normal, Alva, Oka). He enrols as a junior.
At the election of officers of the Kansas State Bar Association in Tepeca yesterday afternoon, Prof. W. E. Higgins, of the School of Law of the University, was elected vice-president. Higgins is now in Colorado Springs. He will be meeting because of ill health. The meeting, which began Monday, ended with a banquet at the Masonic temple last night.
DR. CADY WILL LECTURE TO KANSAS SCIENTISTS
Dr. H. P. Cady, of the department of chemistry, will lecture Monday evening in Topeka under the auspices of the Kansas Academy of Science on the physical and chemical properties of liquid air. In the course of his lecture, Doctor Cady will demonstrate many of the phenomenal "stunts" possible with liquid air, such as freezing them into icicles without destroying them, mixing alcohol and kerosene into solids and using them for candles, liquidizing natural gas, and boiling a kettle of liquid air on a block of ice.
Doctor Cady gave a similar lecture here last semester in the movement to "see K. U, first."
SENIORS CONTEST FOR PRIZE PLAY
Winner of Fifty Dollar Prize to be Chosen From Five Places
Plays
Five plays have been handed to the committee which is to select the winner in the senior prize play contest. The committee is considering the plays now and will be ready to report them. The winner of the contest will be given a prize of fifty dollars and the play will be presented by the senior class.
The following plays have been en tered in the contest: "Fifty-Fifty," by Harold Lyle; "The Last Quarter," by edna Osborne; "If I Were Dean," by alton Gumbiner; "The Greater Cribber," by Edwin Burkholder; and "My Nephew Nathan," by Robert Robertson.
The judges are Profs. Odis H, Burns, Arthur MacMurray, and Willard Wattles, from the faculty; and Henry Pegues, Roy Davidson, and Vilho Jones, from the senior class. Professor MacMurray this morning, "and it will be difficult for the committee to select the winner."
K. U. ARTISTS PLEASED
Fine Arts Faculty Gave Concert for Legislators at Topeka
The members of the State Legislature were entertained with a concert by Harold L. Butler, dean of the School of Fine Arts, Mrs. Butter, Prof. Carl Preyer and Miss Anna Sweeney in Topeka Tuesday night.
The concert, which was given in Representative Hall, outdrew all other attractions in the city and the Fine Arts school of the University.
Dean Butler sang several songs and Professor Preyer played selections on the piano. Miss Sweeney acted as accompanist. Mrs. Butler gave several readings by Van Dyke, Scott, Wiggins and others.
DAILY HEALTH HINTS By the University Health Committee
The so-called bilious headache, which has little or nothing to do with bile, is usually caused by poisoning and irritation from undigested food. Relief is obtained in these cases by emptying the stomach.
For the nervous form of headache, rest and sleep in a darkened room are the treatment. Here powders and tablets are least needed, are most harmful.
When head pain is of the congestive, throbbing kind, it may be relieved by a hot foot-bath, and an icebag or cold compress to the head. Recurrent severe headaches may mean kidney or heart disease.
Whatever the cause of your headache,—whether eyes or stomach, feet or brain, it can do no permanent good. Drug yourself until the sensory nerve is restored to the point that circulation is depressed to the point just this side of heart failure.
Pittsburg Alumni Interested
"The Kansas Alumni of Pittsburg, Pa., assembled on Kansas Day at their annual dinner, send greetings with the unanimous hope that the legislature will authorize your entire program for this biennium." This statement received news yesterday by Chancellor Strong from the Kansas Alumni of Pittsburg, signed for the association by its president, Ben Nicolet.
Math Club Meets
Frances Adams, c'18, talked on Chinese and Japanese mathematics at the regular meeting of the Mathematics Club yesterday afternoon. This is one of the oldest and best mathematics clubs in the United States. A report of the papers read at the meetings in the last five years will be published in the next number of the American Mathematical Monthly.
AMERICAN ART IS ON DISPLAY
Annual Exhibit in Administration Building Shows Unusual Collection
TUDENTS MAY GO FREE
Tickets for Exhibition at Registrar's Office—Will be Here One Week
The traveling Art Exhibit, being shown on the third floor of the Administration building this week, is one of the best ever shown, according to the museum. The artists are all by well known American painters of today. Among the many costly pictures, varying in value from five hundred to three thousand dollars, landscapes, portraits, architectural drawings, and character sketches.
One of the best portraits is that of a lady by John W. Alexander. Many character sketches of Indians, Americans and Lads are worthy of his high mention in picture having a special appeal is that of a small, red-headed boy swinging his feet over the side of a box. This picture is "Pat" by Robert Henri. Other character pictures by Henri are *pay in White* and "Indian Buck" both especially good in their portraital of the characteristics of these races.
MARINE SCENES GREAT
There are three exceptionally fine marine scenes by Frederick J. Waugh, which strongly depict the play of the water on the rocks. Perhaps the best of these is "Restless Sea." "Golden Path" by William Ritschel is especially good marine scene, showing the light far out on the horizon.
Probably one of the most graceful and active pictures is "Sylvanesque" Douglas John C. Child with his child John C. Johnson is kind. Of the architectural paintings those most worthy of mention are Beauvais Cathedral Kangszhenjunga, Ponte Vecchio and the Stone Bridge Colin C. Cooper and Ernest Tansson.
EXHIBIT INSTRUCTIVE
The Art Exhibit is one that is especially beneficial and is open to the public. Pictures of high worth are shown and a pamphlet giving the artist and artist of each is handy to everyone that wishes this information.
The pictures will be on exhibition until Feb. 18. The exhibit is open from nine o'clock in the morning to five o'clock in the afternoon, every Tuesday and Thursday it will be open from eight until ten at night.
Students will be admitted free if they present one of the two tickets given by registrar's office for this purpose. Outsiders will be charged admission.
PLEA FOR CHRISTIANITY
Ralph Harlow Urges Efficiency in Religion
At the regular Tuesday night meeting of the Y. M. C. a last evening S. Ralph Harlow, of New York, speaking of the "Challenge of Other Nations to the American Student", told of the efficiency measures adopted by the warring nations in all economic problems. For the Ameri- canistans these measures in regard to Christianity in the world was his plea.
Mr. Harlow is a missionary in Turkey and has had many experiences with the Armenians. For a year he has been studying conditions of the warring nations. While in Berlin he met Con Hoffman, former secretary of the University Y. M. C. A.
Tonight at 7 o'clock Mr. Harlow will talk of the "Conditions in Turkey." After the meeting to which everyone is invited the Volunteer Band will meet to hear Mr. Harlow. Mrs. Harlow is with her husband. She will be your yesterday afternoon. They came to a residence directly from Colorado Springs where they have been talking to Colorado College students.
Koenen To Appear Here
The next number of the University concerts course will be a recital by Tilly Koenen, February 27. Madame Koenen, the Dutch contralto, has been called this country and has been called by some critics, "The New Schumann-Heink."
Theta Sigma Phi will meet in the rooft room in Fraser at 4:30 Friday for a lecture.
Fair with extreme cold tonight and Friday.
The Temperature
The temperature
Today, 7:45 a.m. m.1.5 below zero.