UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOLUME XIV.
NUMBER 69
COURSE PLANNED FOR MERCHANTS
Speakers Will Include Retailers and Professional Men in Many Fields
THE DATE IS FEBRUARY 5-9
Session
Circular Letter Invites All Kansas Dealers to Attend Session
A glance over the list of men who will speak at the Fourth Merchant's Short Course to be held here February 5 to 9, inclusive, indicates that a better program than ever is to be offered this year.
The Merchants' Short Courses are conducted by the University Extension Division. The increased attendance at these meetings and the large number of merchants who return annually indicate that the retailers have found that these short courses are of considerable value.
TO HOLD INFORMAL DISCUSSIONS
One of the features of the week's program which always finds favor with the merchants is the Round Table. The table can also be used to informal discussions of problems in the various lines of trade. Each round table will be in charge of a practical Kansas retailer.
The speakers who will address the merchants are: Sol Westerfield, of Chicago, vice-president of the National Association of Retail Grocers; Otto Buehrmann, of Chicago, who gave six talks on this issue; and several merchants has been secured again for the coming session; George A. Nichols, of the central advertising department of Butler Brothers in the Chicago office and for some time connected with the Chicago Record-Herdal; Allen W. Clark, director of the National Advertising Bureau; William L. Burdick, vice-chancellor of the University; Governor Arthur Capper; A. E. Edgar, of Detroit, Mich., author of "How to Advertise a Retail Store"; Frank Strong, Chancellor of the University; George M. Husser, secretary of the Kansas City Advertising Club; C. Weeks, of Joplin Mo., will conduct a class in Show Card Advertising.
WILL ENTERTAIN MERCHANTS
Arrangements have been made for a special lunchoon to be served each noon on the hill, followed by a short, restful break by a different speaker each day.
The merchants will be entertained with musical numbers by members of the faculty of the School of Fine Arts, and concert by the men's Glee Club, the University Orchestra, and the University Band. The Dramatic Society will stage a one-act farce, and Prof. Arthur MacMurray, of the department of public speaking, will give a half-hour program of readings
REPORTS ON PRISON LIFE
A circular letter announcing the short course, with an enclosed program and registration blank, is being sent to every merchant and retailer in Kansas. A record attendance is ex-pected on the session, the first week in February.
Make Jails Reformatories, Suggests Dean Blackmar
The rousing of the Middle West to an interest in the conditions of jails and penitentiaries, and prison reform is the purpose of reports filed with the State Board of Control recently. It was also the head of the department of sociology.
Dean Blackmar declared in his reports that society is committing crimes in its blind effort to punish and "get even" with its criminals rather than helping them to become good citizens
Dean Blackmar suggests a plan for putting to work at some useful occupation every man in jail, and an employment agency that would give work for every prisoner at the time of his release
This plan involves the establishing of four farm colonies in different parts of the state, where agricultural employment, shop work and manufacturing are required. The lack of capabilities and inclinations found among the prisoners.
There would be a detention home for women, where their time could be turned to some value. The aim is to place prisons and jails from places where crime is bred to industrial reformatories.
Prof. W. A. Whitaker of the department of chemistry, who is editor of the Chemallurgist, published by the industrial research division of the department, has announced the members of the editorial board for the 1917 issue. They are C. H. Kidwell, A. T. Beckley, C. E. Lefevre, S. F. Farley, G. C. Robinson, and F. C. Walters.
FOUR PROFESSORS ATTEND
CINCINNATI MEETINGS
Profs. C. A. Dykstra, B. F. Moore F. H. Hodder, and D. L. Patterson attended the thirteenth annual meeting of the American Political Science Association in Cincinnati Wednesday, December 27. The annual meeting of the American Historical Association was held at the same time. Various subjects dealing with questions of American local political institutions were issued. Lectures were given by men of national repute on the methods of teaching political science in the preparatory schools and colleges of the United States.
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS, WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, JANUARY 3, 1917.
Professor Dykstra is a member of the executive council of the American Political Science Association. He tells of meeting Prof. Curl Backer, formerly of the University of Minnesota, and of the University of Minnesota, and of the good time they had together during their stay in Cincinnati.
Morgan Says Class of 1918 Wil Be Well Represented in Javhawker
JUNIOR SECTION "BIGGEST EVER"
Letters explaining the section will be mailed this week to all juniors, and a campaign to get them to have their pictures taken immediately will be inaugurated. We'll be here this year to be the largest ever secured for a Jayhawk," said Morgan this morning. "At a great many schools, the juniors themselves edit and publish the annual, and the Class of 1918 is live enough to have before us. We're starting out to make the section the biggest on record."
Plans for the Junior Section of the 1917 Jayhawker were announced this morning by Harry Morgan, the editor. "The pictures of the juniors will be run individually on panels," said Morgan, "ten pictures to a panel. There will be ample space for each student's name, his home address, his school, and his record." The management of the annual will furnish the engravings if the juniors will furnish their pictures."
The arrangement of the section will be novel, according to Morgan. "Our designer is already at work on several styles of panels," he said, and we expect to choose one design time this week to get it together entirely different from anything that has been used heretofore, and I think we will succeed."
All pictures for the Junior Section must be of cabinet size, with a white background, and of that particular variety known to them. A glossy finish is appropriate for a picture with a slick, glossy finish that reproduces much better than the ordinary photograph.
RETURN FOOTBALL TOGS
Manager Hamilton Issues Secr.
Onl Call for Material
Students are responding slowly to the call of the athletic association for the return of football material loaned to the participants in the interclass games, according to W. O. Hamilton, manager of athletics. An unusually large number of students took part in the class games this fall and the amount of material loaned by the association is larger than usual.
"This material must be returned at once," said Manager Hamilton this morning. "We will take steps immediately to get the material if necessary, but we realize that it is only carelessness on the part of the students. I do not want to hold up any one's degree because of football material charged against him, but such a step will be taken if necessary. We will send for the football clothes if they are not brought in soon."
Manuor Hamilton issued a call for this material before the Christmas vacation with a moderate response. Since the holidays few students have checked in their football togs. Rather than have the material outstanding for the remainder of the year, the association has empowered Malone Hamilton to take detailed steps to get the student back. Since then, Delinquents will be reported to the registrar's office and degrees will be withheld until the accounts are squared.
Dean P. F. Walker, of the School of Engineering, spent the week before Christmas in Junction City, Abilene, Salina, Newton, and other towns in the west-central part of the state discuss manufacturing development and its possibilities before the business men's organizations of the towns. Dean Walker says that the possibilities in that part of the state are promising and that he was well satisfied with the results of his trip.
Dean Walker Makes Trip
"Encourage and Help State In stitutions, Not Persecute Them" - Senator Joseph
MINORITY REPORT NEW MEN NEEDED FAVORS SCHOOLS FOR RELAY TEAM
SUGGESTS MANY CHANGES
Attacks Lambertson-Burton Recommendations and Offers Many Substitutes
In a minority report to Governor Capper, Senator J. D. Joseph, third member of the state efficiency and economy commission, attacks many of the recommendations of the majority report of the commission and adds several of his own. This report of Senator Joseph was filed this mournful report following the Lambertson-Burton report filed two weeks ago.
"This report is published by me," he says, "because Senator Lambertson, for some reason, did not want my report published in connection with the principal part of his report."
Senator Joseph expressed his dissatisfaction of the majority report in
Then in a report about ten times the length of the majority report, he tears the Lambertson-Burton recommendations to shreds and pours several hot shots into various Republican state officials. The report includes several pictures and speeches.
"The state educational institutions, and particularly the state university." Senator Joseph says, "should be encouraged and helped, not persecuted. They need more buildings, more land, and surely more rest rooms." He also points out that a fifty by twenty-five feet swimming pool is entirely insufficient for 2,200 students at the state University.
MOVE BELL MEMORIAL HOSPITAL
Senator Joseph would make a number of changes in the state institutions, including the combining of the School for the Blind with the School for the Deaf at Olathe. He favors, also, the abandonment of the Bell Memorial Hospital at Rosedale moving the latter institution to the buildings now used by the School of Blind in Kansas City, Kansas.
Rest rooms for the students at the University; also more swimming pool.
Among the recommendations made in the minority report are the following pertaining to educational institutions:
A special appropriation to pay for the dinner to the alumni at Lawrence Commencement week, for which W. E. Davis, state auditor, refused to attend the graduation. The state should not be obliged to pay for dinners to alumni of the institution.
The removal of the Bell Memorial hospital at Rosedale to the buildings now used by the School for the Blind, and the abandonment of the Rosedale
The removal of the School of the Blind, now located at Kansas City, Kan., to Olathe, where it could be used with the School for the Deaf.
That instead of abolishing the School of Agriculture and the course in journalism at the State Agricultural University, these he more liberally supported.
Purchase of fund $45 state institutions sufficient to support six students for ninety-five years. That the boards and commission which Senator W. P. Lambertson and Representative E. L. Burton, the other members of the commission, recommended be reduced from three dollars, the be retained in their present form.
Outcome of Missouri Classic May Depend Upon This Event
MEET NORMALS JAN. 29
New Running Boards Will be Laid on Gym Floor After Junior Prom
With only three weeks left until the first meet with the Emporia Normals, the urgent need for more men for the 1917 track squad becomes more important out yesterday afternoon for practice. Springers, hurdlers, pole-vaulters, and relay men are badly needed and there is a big chance for new men to make good on the team this year on account of the loss in the team last season through graduation.
Captain Rodkey this morning urged all new men who have ever done track work to come out for practice regularly. There is a chance for a seasoned athlete to attend every event with regular work in the pre-session practices. The gymnasium floor will be used exclusively by the truck team from four to six o'clock every afternoon. Coach O. W. Hamilton will be at every workout and the same attention in all of the track work as the oldest veteran.
The deciding factor in nearly every Missouri-Kansas meet is the relay, and the Missouri athletes have had the edge in this event in the past, mainly because they have had so many men working out for the team from the start of the season. Last year there were a dozen men working out for the relay event at Missouri and the result was rather painful for Kansas. It is the desire of Hannah and Captain Rodkey to have a large squad out for the relay team. Only two old relay men are back and the race for the other two places is a toss-up among the new men.
NEED RELAY MEN
INSTALL RUNNING BOARDS
As soon as the Junior Prom is over, new running boards will be laid on the main floor of the Gymnasium. These new boards will be placed so that they will not slip as those which were used last year so often did. Coach Hamilton is planning to remove part of the track and say that the track will be fifty yards long.
The first meet, with the Normals,
comes on Monday, January 29. The next meet is with the Kansas Aggies
on February 19.
GEOLOGY DEPARTMENT
TO TEST STADIA RODS
Prof. Erasmus Haworth, head of the geology department, has just started a series of experiments with stada rods, instruments used by surveyors to measure distances from a rock surface and wishes to determine what kind of a rod is best suited to the geologists. "This department is especially interested in stadata rods at present," said Prof. Haworth, "because the geologists have to use the stadata rods more and at longer distances than the civil engineers. No one has tested them enough to know which is the best."
Several stadia rods of various designs and colors have already been made and will be tested by the Structural and Dynamic Geology class under Professor Haworth as soon as the weather permits. If the results of the tests are good they will appear in print.
PUBLIC HEALTH CAR TO VISIT LAWRENCE SOON
A Daily Letter Home—The Daily Kaplan.
The first visit of the public health car, "Warren," to Lawrence will be made the last of this week. The car will be open to the public three days, January 6, 7, and 8, on the Union Pacific tracks in North Lawrence.
There will be exhibits to illustrate the various divisions of the State Board of Health work. Dr. Lydia A. Barnes will exhibit the emphasis in child hygiene, one of the most emphasized divisions of the work. Miss Margaret McKnight, field agent of the State Association for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis, will present her experiences to the public schools and visit uncared for cases of tuberculosis.
K. U. GRAD WILL PLAY IN CONCERT
Harold Henry Has Become Celebrated as a Pianist the World Over
Harold Henry, one of the five lead ing American pianists and a graduata of the University of Kansas, will give a concert January 0 in Fraser chapel. Mr. Henry is a graduate, whose esteem has earned him an honor to his University, and whose concerts here are always welcomed with enthusiasm. After graduating from the Lawrence high school, he entered the School of Music here and in 2015 was awarded a scholarship abroad and studied under such masters as Vedilzeke and Mozzkowski.
When he returned to America, he established himself in Chicago, where with little backing he soon won a reputation as a teacher and concert pianist. His musical ability and his forceful interpretation were immediately recognized and he was accorded his place in the music world.
Press reports from some of the Eastern cities where he has appeared recently, will perhaps give an idea of his remarkable genius;
The New York Times says: "Mr Henry's musical and unplayable play
The New York Sun: "Furthermore he imparted to his reading a po-
tition."
Boston Transcript: "A pianist of unusual skill and dexterity, with an armament of technic. He has played the instrument of molecular force accuracy and endurance."
New York Deutsches Journal: "By his temperamental performance he balances the demands of a career."
PROFESSOR DOUTHITT BACK
FROM CHICAGO WITH Ph.D.
Prof. Herman Douthitt, of the department of zoology, has returned from Chicago, after an absence of three weeks, with a Doctor of Philosophy degree. Professor Douthitt studied vertebrate paleontology for two years at the University of Chicago, but left before receiving his degree. His work was done under the direction of the founder of the University of Kansas museum, and the world's greatest authority on fossil reptiles.
Mr. and Mrs. Douthit also spent part of the year visiting relatives in central Illinois.
The Kansas Academy of Science will meet in Topeka, January 12 and 13 The program will consist of fifty papers and several lectures concerning various problems of interest in biology, chemistry, physics, and geology Eight or ten professors from the University will read papers.
The Weather
Fair tonight and probably Thurs-
day colder Thurday in northwest
portion.
Season's Big Party-Junior Prom
PROM TICKETS ON SALE IN FRASER
Seniors and Faculty Members May Exchange Invitations New
PLANS ARE PROGRESSING
day
Decorators Will Begin Work In
Gym at Midnight, Thurs-
Seniors and faculty members who received invitations to the Junior Prm may exchange them for tickets at the check stand in Fraser Hall tomorrow and Friday. The check stand will be open all day, Friday, and Saturday from 12:30 to 12:59 o'clock tomorrow. Manager Harry Montzortom will be in charge.
With the party only two days away, the necessity for hurrying up the preparations has become acute. Owing to the fact that the basketball sound uses the gym floor every night, it is impossible to get to work, and all of the decorating will have to be done after the varsity practice tomorrow night. The decorators will begin their labors at midnight tomorrow and work every minute until the time for the receipients which will precede the grand march.
ARE ASSEMBLING DECORATIONS
Draymen have been busy all day hauling货 loades of trees and wisteria flowers to the gym; and many fraternity houses will be visited tomorrow in a search for rugs, divans, and lamps. The three 500-candle power electric lights which will be the nucleus of the lighting system will be placed tomorrow, as well as the six-foot reflectors which are used for directing light through a mighty busy just now looking for several students with "nerve" enough to crawl around on the steel rafters of the gym and hang streamers.
PLANS "COMING FINE"
"Everything is coming fine," said Montgomery this morning. "We were a little slow in getting our plans under way, owing to the break in the school term at Christmas, but now that everybody is back on the Hill again we're getting along nicely. Even the orchestra—in Kansas City has caught the feeling of excitement from the players I had from 'Pewee' Byers this morning said that he'd lose his job before he'd miss the party."
The ticket sale, which has been conducted by a committee of eleven juniors and the managers themselves, will be held every week the sale will continue the rest of the week.
ISSUE SPECIAL NUMBER
"Kansas Municipalities" Fighting for City Home Rule
A special number of Kansas Municipalities, a monthly issue of the League of Kansas Municipalities, has just been issued from the office of the governor. The League number is called the Municipal Home Rule number, and its aim is to awaken Kansas cities to the need of municipal home rule. The publication has a circulation of eleven hundred, principally in the cities of the towns and towns of Kansas.
Twelve states now have municipal home rule. They are Ohio, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, Oklahoma, California, Oregon, and Washington.
L. Porter, commissioner of parks and public property, Topeka, in an article entitled "Home Rule Needed by Kansas Cities," says that the time is ripe for home rule, and in an article entitled "Municipal Home Rule in Oklahoma," John Alley, secretary of the Oklahoma Municipal League, says, "I take the stand that people of a municipality should be allowed to handle their own local business." He goes on in another way. He further states that cities under 2,000 population hardly need home rule, because they have no real municipal problems until they reach a population greater than 2,000.
A report from the legislative committee of the league is also printed which outlines, in brief, the measures required by the desire to secure legislative action.
Council Did Not Meet
The Men's Student Council did not meet last night as scheduled. Paul Greever, president, has called a meeting of the council next Wednesday night to consider various subjects which have come up since the mass meeting in which the rally was discussed.
Bennie Minturn, c'19, will be unable to draw any more cartoons for a toy that he attempted to crank, back-fried, and maybe is carrying his right arm in splints.