UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOLUME XIV.
NUMBER 74
ENGINEERS MAY FORM COMPANY
New National Guard Organization to Replace Company M at University
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS, WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, JANUARY 10, 1017.
PROPERTY VALUE $18,000
An engineering company at K. L in place of Company M, the present national guard company here, probably will be organized in the near future. We are department at Washington garden center to capt. F. E. Jones of Company M. The local organization will know within two weeks whether or not the infantry company will be done away with in place of the new engineering company. The rest of the new equipment for the engineering division will be $18,000.
The present company has never had more than eighty men in its ranks, although the maximum strength is 100 The title, "Company M," will be transferred to the unnamed company at Oskaloosa. Twelve mules for field wagons are part of the equipment which are the property of the new company.
If the proposed company is organized here it will be the only engineering company in the national guard, having entirely university students and officered by men of the engineering faculty of any American university. The company will be open to all University students, but students from the School of Engineering will be preferred in the company because of their experience in that line of work. The company will be appointed by the company will be 167 men, twenty-four men being mounted to do recommendation on the road. The officers will be selected from the faculty of the School of Engineering.
TRANSFER COMPANY "M"
Organization Will Need 167 Men
—Engineering Faculty to
to be Officers
COMPENSATION IS SIMILAR
At present the pay of the regular company of 100 men in the national guard amounts to $8,000, if every man does his regular weekly drill. This cost is about $160 for drill period of an hour and a half, paid by the Federal government.
The pay of a militia company now while in encampment is the same as that of a regular army company, but the pay is reduced and half by the federal government.
The pay of a militia man in Kansas while in camp depends upon the rank of the man and time of service. The minimum is $1 a day. In Missouri the minimum is $5 a day, such as that paid in Kansas, and the pay does not increase as in Kansas.
10 BLOW 1:20 WHISTLE?
Chancellor Says Change May be Made
The students will probably be warned by the University whistle at 1:20 every day, announcing that it is time to leave the apple "sas" and after-dinner gossip to get to 1:30 class on time. At present with the whistle blowing at 1:30 the often limited gossip is repeated, the repast and the congenial friend, and a very large number of tardies are reported at this hour.
In speaking of this proposed change yesterday afternoon Chancellor Strong said, "I find upon investigation that the University Senate has never set one-thirty as the time for the whistle to blow after dinner. This whistle has been used before time. I see no reason why the whistle should not blow ten minutes before time for the classes to begin at this time the same as at 8:20. I shall speak with some of the other members of the faculty and bring it up before the meeting of the department to tell in the next few days and if there are no objections the change will be made.
CAPT, JONES TELLS OFFICERS
GOOD FOOD IS NECESSAR'
Capt. F, E. Jones, of Company M, has been in Topeka for four days attending the school of national guard officers. He read a paper on "Training of an Infantry Company at Army." He stated that the most important factor in keeping things going right in the ranks was satisfactory food.
"Every officer should go out into the kitchen and have his wife teach him how to cook," said Mr. Jones. "If he does this he can more readily supervise the food preparation in camp."
The Weather
Fair tonight and Thursday; golden
tonight, much cooler in east portion;
snowy evening.
PROF. FLINT WRITES ON
KANSAS JOURNALISM WORK
Prof. L. N. Flint, chairman of the department of journalism, has contributed an article to the "National Printer-Journalist" for December, on "Practical Teaching and Co-operation in Journalism of Journalism in Kansas University."
Professor Flint tells, in his article, of the work done in the Kansas school of journalism, the operation of the plant, the work of the instructors in obtaining greater efficiency, and the effort made by students in the advertising courses to put more vitality into their work.
WANT ELDERKIN TO REMAIN HERE
Students Draw Up Petition Asking Minister to Stay in
Lawrence
One hundred students met in Myers Hall last night and drew up a petition asking the Plymouth minister to remain in Lawrence. Doctor Elderkin has been called to a larger field and is to leave Lawrence soon.
"We the undersigned students of the University have felt the powerful influence of your life and ministry. It is because we know that hundreds of our peers have been made that we make the following appeal. We do not wish to unduly influence your decision but we do want to express our wish that your ministry, because of its influence among the students of the University, and the state of Kansas be continued."
The petition reads.
The petitions will be on Dutch Wed-
del's desk in Myers Hall for a few
days and those interested in keeping
in mind there, may attach signatu-
res there.
EFFICIENCY NOT ENOUGH
Doctor Olinger Says Power Comes Through Purpose
Condemning efficiency as unworthy in itself the Rev. Stanton Olinger made a plea for breadth of purpose in the coming generation in a lecture on the "Tousandfold Man" at Myers Hall last night.
"The thousand fold man," said Reverend Olinger, "is he who has the power of a thousand men, and this power comes through having a world purpose." Reverend Olinger emphasized and interpreted this phrase as meaning a desire to help humanity. He asserted that the hill were those interested in the welfare of those in the University and throughout the state and nation.
"I cannot understand," he declared "how a man can profess himself a Christian without volunteering for missionary service. It offers such a fine opportunity for the fulfillment of a world purpose."
Edwin A. Krauthoff, an attorney of Kansas City will speak here tomorrow on the subject of "Uniform State Law's." Mr. Krauthoff is chairman of the Uniform State Law委员会 of the National Bar Association.
"Krauthoff is a pleasing and instructive talker," said Uncle Jimmy Green of the School of Law today. "I don't know when I've been more deserved to be given this award, but with him two years ago when he lectured here on commercial law."
Mr. Krauthoff is a member of the law firm of Krauthoff, McClintock, and Quant of Kansas City. However, he spends most of his time in Washington. He is a good example of the best variety of self-made man, according to Dean Green. He and his brother, Lewis Krauthoff, now a corporation lawyer in New York, has been appointed to their legal education was obtained only through a constant struggle against poverty.
He will tell of the work accomplished by the committee such as the negotiable instruments law, adopted in all states. The question is of particular interest to students of law and American government.
Kansas City Attorney to Speak on "Uniform State Laws"
A. L. Bowman, an office engineer in the City Engineer's office in Topeka, was on the Hill yesterday arranging to take special work in order to take his degree in civil engineering in the spring.
The talk tomorrow will be in the
Hall lecture room at two
9'clock.
Prof. J. W. Evans, of the department of journalism, is confined to his home with an attack on tonsillis and must meet his class for the past two days.
MANY WANT NEW CONSTITUTION
Better Government League Advocate Change in Road Laws, Judicial and Tax System
INCLUDES INCOME BILL
Prof. S. O. Rice Thinks Tha Convention Will Not Support Mill Tax
A constitutional convention is the first thing that the better government league will ask of the state legislature when it meets today. Prof. S. O. Rice said this morning that the permanent income bill would have a better chance of becoming a part of the constitution by amending the present constitution as was the original plan of the advocates of the permanent income bill. He believes that it will not be possible to afford a fee of $10 getting into the new constitution which the proposed convention would draw up.
At the first meeting of the better government league in Topeka, Governor Capper was made chairman and an executive committee of fifteen members from different sections of the state was named. The meeting adopted unanimously the report of chairmen of the league and mar, dean of the graduate school, outlining the demands and purposes of the organization.
DEAN BLACKMAR'S REPORT
A new constitution for Kahsaa:
An amendment to permit the state to participate in building public roads.
His report provides for:
A new constitution for Kansas
An amendment providing for changes in the judicial system.
An amendment providing for
chartering of the taxation, including
the mill tax and state taxes.
In moving the adoption of the report, Dean Blackmar stated that the old constitution had served a good purpose, but added:
"So did the tallow candle serve a good purpose in its age. So did the wheelbarrow and the old stage coach serve a good purpose in the ages before them. We have outgrown them all, just as Kansas has outgrown its old constitution."
CONSTITUTION OUT OF DATE
Homer Hoch, J. N. Dolley, J. D.
Jossey Bentley, W. and L.
B. Brown of Kingman press for a
constitutional convention.
CONSTITUTION OUT OF DATE
The Topeka Capital said editorially of the constitutional convention: "The fact is that the constitution is in the past. It was adopted fifty-seven years ago and in that time the world has moved on somewhat. It has even been said that in the last fifty years human life on this planet has been entirely revived." The constitution is a straight jacket that hammers good government."
NORMANDY SEATS' GO ON SALE SOON
Homer Talbot, secretary of the K. Municipal Reference Bureau, returned yesterday from the meeting of the Kansas Better Government Association, whichcommended that an act be passed by the present legislature allowing cities to use the city manager plan of government. He will return to Topeka to speak before the Town Meeting Chair, the subject, "Home Rule for Cities."
Talbot Returns for a Day
The Phi Kappa Fraternity will give
their own "Cosmopolitan" event
even if events are held in Halle.
Phi Kanna Dance
row
Tickets for Fine Arts Opera Offered to Public Tomor-
SPEND MONTH PRACTICING
Chorus and Principals Have Worked Hard to Round Out Production
Tickets for "The Chimes of Normandy," the three act comic opera to be given by the University glee club at the Bowersock theatre Monday night, will be on sale at the Round Corner Drug Store tomorrow.
Leads will be taken by Wendell Foster, tenor; Leta Ellison and Leah Stewart, sopranos. The chorus and the orchestra have been practicing more than a month.
TALE OF AN EXILE
The Chimes of Normandy was written by Robert Planguette. The plot deals with the adventures of Henri, marquis or Corvelline, an exile who returns to his ancestral home to attend the great annual fair given in the village that receives its name from his chateau. The scene is centered about an old-fashioned Norman village of the Seventeenth Cen-
The first act shows a group of village gossips. One of the girls of the village, whom they are discussing, arrives just in time to turn the tables and succeeds in turning their tauents to rage. A nisser and his niece German woman with whom she regards to her love affairs. She wishes to marry a fisherman of the village. Her uncle desires that the magistrate of the village becomes her husband. To escape from the power of her uncle she goes to the county fair, where she becomes a servant of marquis. Her lower is also at the fair.
GHOSTS WIN CASTLE
Ghosts have made the Castle of Corneville an object of dread. Henri finds that the ghosts are the work of the old miser who is concealing his treasure in the castle. This discovery drives the miser crazy.
The third act shows the castle and the homecoming of Henri the marquis. One young lady appears with papers indicating she is the mistress of the castle. The miser, however, regaining his mind proves that Germaine is the true marchioness. A love duet between Henri and Germaine, and the reconciliation of all bring the romantic story to a close.
K. U. PROFESSORS SPEAK
AT NORTH LAWRENCE CHURCH
Prof. W. C. Stevens, of the University department of botany, gave an illustrated lecture on garden flowers at the North Lawrence Christian church, December 27. Prof. H. W. Nutt talked at the same church December 31, on the popular sense of Christianity.
N. W. Brown, e15, who is now rodman with the A. T. & S. F. at Amarillo, Texas, was on the Hill a few hours yesterday. He is on his way to Amarillo after spending a two weeks' vacation at home.
Dr. Arthur Braden will speak on "Social Christianity" at the North Lawrence Christian church, Sunday, January 21.
The Dunnakin Club, 1817 Ohio state college tomorrow night from six-thirty.
HURT ON FRASER STEPS;
HAS TO LEAVE SCHOOL
Merion Smith, c'20, of Independence, has been forced to leave school and return home on account of air injury which she received in a fall on Fraser steps recently. She was leaving Fraser when she fell on the east steps which are narrow and in bad condition. In falling she injured her knee.
After going to Independence, Miss Smith will return to Kansas City where she will be under the care of her children. She will not be in school' this semester.
TWO BRITISHERS SPEAK HERE SOON
Alfred Noyes and Francis Neilson Come Here Next
Week
Two of England's great men will give the next two University lectures. The first of these will be Francis Neilson, formerly a member of Parliament, and a leader among the advanced Liberals of England, who will talk at 4:30 o'clock Monday afternoon 15 in Mayin Vinn Hall, on one of the many lectures he has "Secret Diplomacy and Sudden War," "Internationalism and World Peace," or "National Armaments and International Hattres."
The second of these University lectures will be a talk at 4:30 o'clock the afternoon of Thursday, January 18 in the English poet, and professor of literature in Princeton, where he spends a portion of each year. While occupying a position at the top in English letters, Mr. Noyes is one of the authors of the subject of his address has not yet been announced by the convocation committee.
Mr. Nelson came to America first at the age of nineteen, and for four years worked at day labor. Then he began to write for the Dramatic Mirror and the Theatre Magazine. This was followed by an experience of several years on the stage, which ended in England, where he became a disciple of Hardy in the cause of the working man, and during the last fifteen years has been a leader of the Liberal party.
SIX SCHOLARSHIPS OPEN
Smith College Closes Application
File Feb. 5.
Time is limited for women of the University of Kansas who are interested in the Smith College Graduate Program. Students must be filed by Monday, February 5.
Six fellowships, of the value of $500 each, and without charge for tuition, have been established by the trustees of Smith College for the encouragement of advanced work. They are open to women graduates, of not less than one year's standing, with a demonstrated record in colleges of recognized rank, and are awarded annually, subject to renewal at discretion.
The holders of these fellowships are required to render some assistance, not instruction, not to exceed six hours a week, if such assistance is required by the respective department. Appointments are not required unless further study, but are made in accordance with the merits of the applicant.
The K. U. source of information regarding applications is Mrs. Eustace Brown, dean of women, Room 114, Fraser Hall.
Last Year's Basketball Squad
DELAY REPORT OF SMALLPOX CASES
With Two Suspects, Only One Has Reached County Health Officer
AN EPIDEMIC IS PROBABLE
Physicians of Opinion That Dreaded Disease May Gain Foothold
But one case of smallpox among the University students has been reported to county health officer, Dr. John C. Rudolph, at two o'clock today. Dollie Needham, 620 Indiana street, is reported as being isolated at the University Hospital with a light case of smallpox.
The University Hospital reports but one genuine case of smallpox, although a suspected case was called to the attention of the physician in question, or morning, but hospital authorities said later the case was not smallpox.
OUTBREAK PROBABLE
Dr. John Sundwall, said this morning, "While the patient in the hospital does not have a severe form of smallpox, the probability of an outbreak of even light cases is likely." Students who become acutely indisposed and manifest symptoms of smallpox with the disease prevent the spread of this highly infectious disease by reporting at once to the university hospital."
"Twenty vaccinations have been given to students by the Hospital," said Miss Mary Hang at noon, "and knowing better than on the first day."
SEVENTY-NINE VACCINATED
Dr. Nuria Guzmán, the health officer is giving free vaccinations to the public and has vaccinated seventy-nine in the last two weeks and advises the vaccination of everyone when highly contagious disease is prevalent.
Professor Kent, superintendent of the Lawrence schools reports the New York school at 912 New York street to students to be vaccinated for smallpox and the appearance of several cases of the disease among the students.
RECITAL PLEASES MANY
Harold Henry Returns to K. U.
as Great Pianist
Harold Henry in his piano recital in Fraser Chapel last night showed to an approving audience that his thought and enthusiasm are for his art and the production he is rendering was no display of himself or of his technique just a highly sympathetic interpretation of every number.
The pianist's aim was to help the audience appreciate the good things that they can learn.
The Toccata in G, one of Bach's productions rarely found on a recital program was used for his opening number. Of the four MacDowell's Sonatas which are played, he chose Sonata which is least often heard. The sonata selections were the only ones of the program that were familiar to all.
HOMER TALBOT TO ADDRESS
SERVICE LEAGUE IN K. C.
"Democracy in the National Government" is the subject of a lecture which Horner Talbot, head of the League of Kansas Municipalities, will deliver before the School of Social Sciences of Kansas City, Mo., Thursday evening at the venue of the public library. This is the third of a series of twelve lectures which Mr. Talbot will deliver before this school. Lectures to follow are entitled: The Reorganization of State Government, Democracy and the Expert, Home Rule for Cities, Citizen Control of City Government, Public Education, Ninth and Main Street versus Jefferson Practical Politics, and The Socialized City. The series of lectures will close with a written examination.
On Wednesday night, Mr. Talbot will speak at Topape before the Town Meeting Club in the city auditorium on Home Rule for Cities. At the same time, he will be a editor of the Topape Capital, will speak on The City Manager Plan.
PI Upson announces the pledging
of Edward Bradstreet, c'20, of Dighton.
To the Faculty and Students of the University:
There will be no University convocation in the month of January. Convocations will be held at regular periods following the first semester examinations.
Signed Frank Strong, Chancellor.