UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOLUME XIV
NUMBER 79.
OLD GRADS URGE
HIGHER SALARIES
A l u m i n i Visiting Committee Makes Report on University to Legislature
ASK HALLS OF RESIDENCE
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS, WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, JANUARY 17, 1917.
Danger of Fire In Upper Floors of Fraser—Need New Ad Building
The Visiting Committee of the Alumni Association has just finished its semi-annual report upon the conditions at the University. The committee is Scott Hopkins made the inspection W. Gleed, '79; Helen Perry Edwards, '96; W. B. Sutton, '99; Olive Thompson, '87; R. C. Russell, '00. The report explains that the members of the committee are not especially familiar of the faculty or officers of the University, so their report is unbiased.
FINISH AD BUILDING
They urge the finishing of the Administration Building to "relieve the intolerable congestion in the other buildings" and make it less necessary to have "all day use of class rooms." Not only must classes be held at all hours of the day but "the students are compelled to climb from the basement to the fifth floor—one hundred eighteen steps. The upper rooms of Fraunhofer University also say there is not a high school in the state that does not have better ventilation than many of the buildings here on the campus.
URGE DORMITORIES
Dormitories for women were urged as a necessity says the report, "for many parents are sending their daughters out of the state on account of the insufficient and inadequate wages," or Lawrence." The report recommends, that dormitories for at least the freshmen women should be provided.
The salaries of the faculty members is also a sore point. According to their report most of the instruction to students is given by the poorer paid instructors, while the higher paid members of the faculty have more hours for original work. The report advocates paying these younger teachers more, for "the University of Arizona has a large number of young instructors through calls from other institutions which pay better salaries."
The report closes by saying these recommendations are made "not from the standpoint of the officers and instructors of the University, but from the standpoint of the 3,500 students in Lawrence."
SAVE ELMS FROM MOTH
Locust, Hackberry and Fruit Trees Also Need Banding
To protect the elms, bandage other branches of a tree because of the department of entomology.
The moths which appeared during the recent warm spell are binding their time in the shelter of the cracked bark on the trees and a few hours of warm sunshine will bring them out in full force.
The department of ontology has orders for the banding of 300 trees. About half of the trees on the campus have been banded and the rest will be as soon as the material arrives. The trees are banded the trees on the campus.
The elm tree suffers most from the invasion of the canker-worm army, but if the canker worm finds the elm tree securely banded, he will take a chance on the hackberry, locust, and fruit trees.
Mayor W. J. Francisco and the city commissioners decided yesterday to band all trees in the parks. Concerted action on the part of the citizens of Lawrence would effect the extinction of the worms.
WILL CELEBRATE SAINT
WILL CELEBRATE SAINT
VALENTINE'S DAY
Saint Valentine's day will be celebrated at the University this year by a joint party of the Y. M. and Y. W. in the Gymnasium Saturday, February 13th. The party will have charge of the affair has laid plans for what will be the most elaborate event that has ever been held by the two organizations. The whole University will be guests, and since the party will be held after the game it will game it is expected that the attendance will break all previous records.
The University organizations have a state wide reputation for holding successful parties. "Almost every day," dehare the two local secretaries, or from over the counter asking how the association parties are handled."
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DISCUSS OLD TIMES AT
BIG BANQUET SATURDAY
Seventy-five loyal Jayhawkers attended the banquet given Saturday night at the Hotel Del Prado in Chicago for Kansas alumni.
Dr. W. L. Burdick's speech and the resolutions of the association expressed a knowledge of the needs of the University of Kansas and a will to work on their part to help build a larger University for the service of Kansas.
The principal speakers at the banquet were Judge C. F. Fishback, president of the Kansas Association of Chicago; Dean John H. Long of the School of Pharmacy in Northwestern University; and Dr. W. L. Burdick, vice-chancellor of the University of Kansas
ASKED STATE FOR TWO BUILDINGS
Douglas County Legislators Introduce Bill Yesterday— Schools Want Money
The first of the appropriation bills for state educational institutions in the legislature yesterday provided for an appropriation of $200,000 for a fine arts building including an auditorium and $150,000 for a new wing of the Administration Building. Senators W. J. Cummings and Elmer Brown of Douglas county introduced the bills.
Representatives from other state institutions presented bills yesterday asking for appropriations for their respective schools. Senator Carroll responded by explaining the agricultural Hall at Manhattan Senator Montee and Representative Graves introduced bills asking for $200,000 for the new science building and auditorium at the Pittsburg Manual Training Normal School, also asked for $10,000 for agricultural training. Senator Plumb asked for $8,000 to put a basement in the library building at Emporia Normal school.
An appropriation of $15,000 was asked for the installation of free beds and free medical treatment for children at the Rosedale medical school. The Normal School at Pittsburg asks for $10,000 for a new athletic field.
The appropriation bills introduced yesterday totaled $630,000. They will be distributed to 14 states.
SOME SLANG NOT SO BAD
"American People Forming New Language," Appelboom
What's the matter with slang? "It's all right!" declares P. A. Applombio, instructor in romance languages. "Slang is something to be encouraged—provided, of course, it doesn't become vulgar. The American people are forming a language of their own from the addition of slang expressions, or what were once considered slang. Some of these slangs would be hisriba, or they would be incorporated into the language. Of course, we would not want all of the slang we hear to become a part of the language."
Professor Appelbom has been in this country only three years, but spoke English well before he came to America. He is a Hollander by
"I thought I knew English when I came over," he said, "But I had so many things to learn from the speech of the American people that I was bewildered. They were a dialect all their own, but it's all high. I like it!"
Beware of dust—the aeroplanet of the microbe. The feather duster, and dry sweeping methods, are relies of barbarism. Wood floors should be wiped, or mopped with oil mops. If you must have tacked-down carpets, see that they are cleaned with a carbonated moist broom, with bits of moist newspaper or tea leaves scattered to catch the dust.
Chest protectors are worse than useless,—unless they are worn on the feet. Thin-sided shoes and filmy gloves bags are often responsible for colds.
DAILY HEALTH HINTS
By the University Health Committee
The Weather
Epidemic colds are due to bacteria, which are usually transferred from person to person by the uncovered sneeze or cough. Persons affected should use squares of gauze or cheesecloth, which can be destroyed, instead of handkerchiefs. Handkerchiefs should not be left exposed, but kept in paper bags; boil them before sending them to the general laundry.
Generally fair and warmer tonight and Thursday.
CONVENTION BEST FOR INCOME BILL
Talbot Believes Measure Would Stand Chance In New Constitution
NO ACTION TAKEN YET
Amendment Appears Improbable Under Present
Law
The state legislature, in session at Topeka now for more than a week, has not yet decided on the calling of a constitutional convention. Many of the advocates of the Permanent Income Bill consider such a convention a good thing, because they believe that the bill will have a better chance of passing before a constitutional in the hands of the members of such a convention than by making it a law by amending the present constitution.
Homer Talbot, secretary of the League of Kansas Municipalities, when interviewed this morning, stated that he considered the chances of the Income Bill becoming a law most favorable in the hands of the constitutional convention because at the present time the constitution permits the legislature to present only three bills to the people for their approval at the State House. (Gassaway with many other amendments being urged, other measures are likely to be presented instead of the Permanent Income Bill.
"With the constitutional convention," said Mr. Talbot, "any number of amendments may be submitted to the approval of the people, as was shown by the Ohio constitutional convention in 1912. At that convention forty were submitted and thirty-three adopted."
IT ALL DEPENDS
"All that is necessary is to show the convention that the Permanent Income Bill is worthy, but if it is necessary to amend the constitution it will be necessary to show the legislature that it is meritorious enough to be one of the three to be voted upon. It can be readily seen that the bill would have the best chance in the convention."
PRESENT MERIT
DRAW UP MANAGER BILL
Dykstra and Talbot Help in Fight for New Plan
A bill to permit Kansas cities to adopt the manager plan has been drafted by Prof. C. A. Dykstra, of the department of history, and Homer Talbot, secretary of the League of Kansas Municipalities and head of the University reference bureau in Chicago, this morning to assist in the work of presenting it to the legislative committee of the League.
Following its consideration by the committee, the measure probably will be introduced in the present legislature. The bill has been drafted on the basis of the provisions of the city manager plan laws and charters which have been tested in actual experience in cities of other states.
More than forty American cities have adopted the city manager plan and the number is increasing rapidly. The state legislatures of many other states,
A tumbling meet will be held here again this year. The schools which will compete are Kansas, Agrigia, Kentucky Normals and the University of KANSAS.
"No definite date has been set as yet but it will probably be held about the first of March." said Dr. Naismith this morning. "This should be a number as six or eight of the best numbers of the University will be entered."
A meeting of the Missouri Valley committee will take up the matter of how to report to the over in the valley athletics. This committee will make its report in May.
K. U. WILL HOLD TUMBLING
MEET AGAIN THIS YEAR
There have been no new developments in smallpox at the University Hospital this week. The main ailment of the majority of the students is either a severe cold or the gripe. Several colds and many bad cases of grip are now being treated at the hospital.
SMALLPOX GIVES WAY TO
L GRAPE AND MEASLES
FINDING LOCATION FOR FINE ARTS
Two students have been sent to the infirmary for isolation. One case is chickenpox and the other is measles. There is some chance of a spread of the measles as the patient worked at a fraternity house when he was showing the first symptoms of the case.
Permission Obtained to Rent Down Town Rooms for School
CHANCELLOR TO TOPEKA
Confers With Board of Administration About New Buildings
No time is being wasted in finding a new location for the School of Fine Arts. Following the report of C. H. shandler, state architect, condemning N.C.'s building, M. Shea, superintendent of grounds and buildings, advising the abandonment of the building, Chancellor Frank Strong telephoned E. T. Hackney, president of the board of administration, for permission to rent rooms down town for the department pendiduous the selection of a permanent location.
Upon obtaining the consent of President Hackney for the move, Mr. Shea immediately began a search for rooms. This morning two locations are being considered, one a residence on Tenth street, and the other the office of an office building down town, but no selection has yet been made.
BEGAN SEARCH FOR ROOMS
Chancellor Strong went to Topeka this morning for the purpose, it is understood, of conferring with Mr. Hackney regarding the immediate instructions bill providing for the erection of a new home for the School of Fine Arts.
A new building for the department has long been recognized as a necessity, but never before was the need so pressing as since the report of Mr. Chandler and Mr. Shea that the lives of students are endangered in the old school buildings. The walls in the walls, and it is feared a second high wind such as that of last week might result in the complete disintegration of the building.
TWO LOCATIONS CONSIDERED
Of the two locations now under consideration, it is thought the office building is the most desirable, as the rooms of the residence examined are thought too small for the work. In each of two of the rooms it will be necessary to place two grand pianos. The second piano does not think any room in the house would-be sufficiently large to accommodate them.
Real estate men are telegraphing the owners of the two pieces of property for terms of lease, and it is probably made this week. The music department will be moved from North Hall immediately after the lease is closed.
MISS OSBORNE AN AUTHOF
"Oriental Diction and Theme in English Verse from 1740 to 1840," is the title of the first number, second volume of the recently published Humanistic Studies, written by Edna Osborne, a graduate student in the University, and fellow-elect in English. Miss Osborne attended Vassar, a B. A. B. degree from the University of Illinois, before entering Kangas.
The mythology of Eastern climes appeals to the imagination of English poets. Touches of Eastern diction, richly colored, fantastically sensuous, full of barbarically gorgeous figures of speech, frequently adorn their eyes. English imaginations charmed with strange combinations of the horrible and beautiful, and the wierd imagery expressed in sonorous words.
Ier Production Appears In Humanistic Series
Miss Osborne's production has received very favorable comment from the New York Nation. It is, as the title implies a study of the extent and influence of Orientalism in Occidental literature.
Prof. Evans Has Operation
Prof. J. W. Evans, of the department of journalism, underwent an operation at the Simmons Hospital last night for the removal of his tonsils. He is recovering rapidly this morning and expects to be able to meet his classes by the last of this week. He has been confined to his home for more than a week with tonsilitis.
Roger Cunningham, a member of the firm of Teacher and Bartberger, Kansas City, Mo., will address the advertising classes in the department of journalism in Room 102 Medicine building, where he has the latest engraving processes, describing those used by the Kansas City firm.
Kansas City Engraver to Speak
RATIO OF COLLEGE SPIRIT
4 TO 1 FOR THE WOMEN
The results of the contest for a prize of five dollars to be given by the Graduate Magazine to the student writing the best article on "What is College Spirrit," seem to indicate that the women of the University have greater acquisitiveness than the men, or else have more college spirit, and moreover, this spirit is confined to the College.
At this time, four women and one man have announced their intention of entering the contest. All five are women, and can produce a classic in one hundred words," said Miss Agnes Thompson, secretary of the Alumni Association, who needs two thousand words to express her on the subject, he may use them."
WOMEN PLAYING IN SEMI-FINALS
The Second Round of Interclass Games Comes Tonight In Gym
The women's basketball teams have held their last practices and scrimmages before the big games of the season. They have taken ninety-five-fifteen o'clock in Robinson Gymnasium tonight. The freshman, junior, and senior teams held their last practices Monday night; the sophomore and senior teams last practice yesterday afternoon.
The games promise to be much better than the first ones of the interclass series which were played Saturdays with Coach Hazel Pratt and sophomores, and between the juniors and seniors according to Coach Hazel Pratt. All of the women obtained valuable basketball knowl-遇 host contested encounters Saturday.
The games scheduled for tonight are between the freshmen and seniors, and the sophomores and juniors. Coach Hazel Pratt predicts that the first of these games will be the better of the two.
The freshmen have been showing some classy teamwork in their scrimmages and are expected to make things lively when they enter the fray. They show off their skills, showed up unexpectedly in the last game, and are getting better with every practice. Two of the senior women, Vilolee Klotiger, a guard, and Lottie Martin, a guard, played their first University basketball in the 1950s. Both better showing is expected of the senior women in the game tonight.
The juniors are doped to take the game with the sophomores, although the second year women are showing much better form than in the first game. Ruth Paris, a forward, has the ability to connect with the basket.
The teams are playing on the per centage basis and the team which has the highest percentage of games won will be awarded a silver loving cup is offered by the athletic association through Manager W. O. Hamilton.
The present standing of the teams
Team per cent
Freshmen 1,000
Lunches 1,000
Sophomores .000
Seniors .000
SCIENCE HELPS RELIGION
Dr. Schwegler Urges Use of One to Explain the Other
"The study of science has led many of the greatest scientists to realize that an all-intelligent power, God governs the universe," said Dr. R. A. Hall to talk on "The importance Religious experience" at Myrsil Hall last night.
Dr. Schwegler said that in the early biblical days the dogmatic statements of belief were not to be questioned; but that finally men came out into the world who knew why they believed and sought to find out what they believed what they did.
"The average student gains his religious knowledge by a cut and dried process and never stops to reason out the method by which the things that are taught him came about," continued Dr. Schwegler. "Then we see the same student groping about in the science of science and keeping the religious knowledge from the scientific ones. He never thinks of associating the two and drawing a conclusion from the association. He adheres to the old idea that the two are to be thought of separately and the result is a muddled idea of both.
"The scientists have broken down the barrier between the two compartments of knowledge and using the same tool. The results arrived at a more clear perception of what the true conditions are and have downed the superstition."
K.U. IS TOP HEAVY SAYS LAMBERTSON
Chairman Efficiency Commission Flays Lawrence School— Urges Reforms
COMMITTEE RAPS BOARD
NO CLASS ROOMS NEEDED
Claim Waste and Extravagance in Administration—Favor Better Library Facilities
These two men urge that better instructors be secured for the freshmen and sophomores, even at the expense of the junior and senior.
That too much emphasis is laid on specialization in the University of Kansas, was the essence of the final report of the efficiency and economy research program today. Senator W. L. Lambertson, of Fairview, and E. L. Burton, of Parsons, a member of the 1915 legislature, presented the report as a main report, which took healthy swats to educational institutions including the University.
Senator Lambertson and Mr. Burton reiterate their statements that the University needs no more class rooms. The combining of the various libraries on the campus into one building and the substitution of class rooms for these libraries would relieve the situation. An auditorium in connection with the new library is urged by the committee.
Briefly they are the chief "swats" in the ambition and Mr. Burton indulge.
It would be the glory of this school to eliminate some medicine, some journalism, some fine arts and some of the work of the extension, and pour back into the freshman and sophomore years that energy. We should have better men and women teaching freshmen and sophomores.
The university, like most of our other institutions and departments, has grown a little heavy at the top. It was designed for this committee to understand the importance of music as recommended by the board of administration.
RAPS STATE BOARD
The handling of the university by the board of administration has been to the school's deterriment. The effect at home on the board's conduct of some of its internal and professional activities must be minimise the school's administration. Board's removal of deans, not to raise the question of the efficiency of the change, is disastrous to a university's standing. There are couchings to show
SWEPT THE SLIDE WALK?
SWEPT THE SLIDE WALK?
If You Have Not Make Your Fresh Swing the Shovel
More snow last night. Wasn't it fine to get up this morning and tramp the fresh snow down into new paths, or climb old Mt. Oread over the slick walks? But just think of the more fortunate freshman who have pledged some fraternity. Early this morning they had to get up and clean the snow and adhere to and porches so their "brethren," the one to get the main-traveled through-fares without walking through the snow
Looking at it on the other side, it means more cold weather to keep the ice frozen even if it does need sweeping before it can be skated on. And then there is the fine chance for a snowpack that melts with a couple of inches of snow make the best place possible for sleigh riding.
No, the freshmen are not the most unlucky people here. There are the juniors who have to remove the snow on their balconies and walk between the college buildings.
CO. M MAY BE CHANGED
TO ENGINEERING COMPANY
If the War Department at Washington agrees, the present National Guard Company here may be changed to an engineering company, according to Capt. F. E. Jones of Company M. If such a company is formed, Company M will be transferred. The cost of the organization or the new company will be $18,000. The organization of its kind, being made up entirely of students and commanded by officers, who must be members of the engineering faculty.
The proposed company will be open to all students, with engineers preferred, the maximum strength to be 167 men. The matter will be definitely decided at the next meeting of the engineering faculty.
Cliff Teeter, c'19, has been sick for the last three days with gripe.
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