UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOLUME XII.
INSTITUTE FOR CHILD WELFARE MARCH 22
NUMBER 108.
Prof. W. A. McKeever Plans Sixteen Lectures for Meeting
CITIES TO SEND DELEGATES
"The purpose of the institute is to give instruction and preparation to those who wish to become playground directors and workers." Professor McKeever says. "At these meetings the duties and relations of boards of education of children also be discussed. Play and recreation leaders, members of the boards of education and members of parent-teacher associations, mothers' clubs, and similar organizations have been invited to attend."
Prof. William A. McKeever, of the child welfare department, is constantly receiving registrations for the Child-Welfare institute to be held March 22 to 25 at the University.
Fifteen Lectures on Program
Play-Ground Directors and Worker to Make Talks on Subjects Concerning Children
Fifteen lectures will be contained in the program for the institute, in addition to the numerous discussions of men and women who attend. Six lectures by Dr. Henry G. Curtis will be aired. These will be aided by demonstrations of plays and games. Dr. Curtis, author-lector, who founded the National Playground Association probably can speak with more autumn visitors in the country on play and recreation topics. Professor McKeever says.
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS, WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, MARCH 10, 1915
Dr. S. J. Crumbine will give a course o six lectures on health and hygiene. In these lectures he will be assisted by other physicians of the
J. James Naismith, professor of physical education in the University, will give six lectures on physical training. These lectures will be aided by several demonstrations of gymnasium work for children.
In addition to these courses of lec
tures, talks will be made by Profes
sor McKeever on work on child
dren, and by H. A. Lorenz, on the
most serviceable gymnasium appara-
tatus.
Many talks will be made by representatives of towns in which work among the children has been extensive. These men and women will dispense their knowledge and value in the work in their home towns. As examples, the representatives from Great Bend will report on "The Municipal Swimming Pool," "Gymnasium," "Gymnasium and a Social Center," as proven by the work in Yates Center.
Sabeth H has Largest Delegation
Sabeth, of those towns from which registrations have been received, will send the largest delegation. The superintendent of schools the president of the board of education, the president of the college, a representative of the child welfare league, and another delegate whose expenses will be paid by the city will be included.
K. U. GRAD IS PROMINENT IN BELGIAN RELIEF WORK
M. K. Shaler, one of the two men through whose hands all the materials and funds sent by Americans for the relief of the Belgians passes, is a graduate of the University of Kansas, having taken his degree from the College in 1901 and his Engineering degree in 1904.
Mr. Shaler is a consulting engineer and geologist of note, and has been in charge of large and difficult engineering fetes in many corners of the world. His largest task was the development of a mission in Africa for the Belgian government. After two expeditions to the South African fields he returned to New York and established himself as a consulting geologist. The Belgian government again engaged his services and he took up the work with headquarters in Brussels. He was there at the outbreak of the war, and joined with another American, H. C. Powell of the relief of the populace. He is now secretary of the commission and Mr. Hoover is chairman.
Mr. Shaler began his work as a geologist when Prof. Enrasmus Haworth of the University secured him on a government survey in Oklahoma.
No Credit for Basketball
All freshmen who expect credit in Gym this smester must enroll in Gym work at once. Spring basket-work practice will not count on Gym credit.
W. O. Hamilton.
HOME MADE POTTERY
NOT NEW IN KANSAS
Dyche Museum Has 200 Pieces
Pottery making is being heralded as a possible art to be developed in Kansas, and one University woman has already poured hot chocolate out of a pot she made herself. But this serving out of home-made pottery isn't a new thing at all—in fact it's very old fashioned.
Over in the Dyche Museum, hundreds of pieces of made-in-Kansas pottery have been collected. They were made by Indians in the days before the pale-face came in with his hand to create pottery for the masses among the Indians. The collection was donated to the University by Dr. R. S. Dinsmore of Troy, Doniphan county. Thousands of pieces are found in that locality, at depths ranging from 2 inches to 20 feet. They were left by the Kansai tribe, in Nakapo, and Fox tribes, who occupied the territory | daves gone by.
Dr. Dinsmore has in his own collection almost 200 designs of pottery handles, and adds new designs every month. He mounds a 4 miles from Troy, and in a space 16 feet square and $2\frac{1}{2}$ feet deep he found 71 skulls, along with other bones. With them were found 93 beads, heads, and arrow speeches and point speeches.
Most of the pottery was made by mixing gunboo, sand, mussel shell, and some animal or vegetable matter. Gourds and wood blocks were used to make pottery. Pottery was merely sun-baked, as is shown by the ease with which it is crumbled.
WILL DEBATE ON MARCH 25
A vital problem in the economic life of Kansas will be discussed by the debaters of the two local soils for a spring competition March 25. The question to be debated is, Resolved: "That the State of Kansas Should Loan Money to Prospective Land on the Security of Farm Lands."
K. U. and University Societies Will Discuss State Loaning of Money
This subject offers an opportunity for original thought, since no satisfactory conclusion has ever been reached from the numerous articles and speeches placed before the people of the state—within the past few years. The result is a solidified by the Kansas legislature and that of several states this winter.
This competition is closed to men of varisity debating calibre as it is the aim of the two societies to encourage participation among untried men who may later be developed into inter-colleague material.
Each society has already picked the men who are to represent them in this wword clash. The K. U. Society will depend on Lyle Anderson, Kenneth Pringle, and Neil Ireland while the University Debating Society will be headed by James Mackenzie G. Irennett, Kenneth Lott and E. R. Moody. All these men have been trained by the public speaking department of the University.
DR. OLINGER WILL LEAD SPECIAL CHAPEL SERVICE
Dr. Stanton Olinger, who is leading the chapel services this week will talk tomorrow morning on the theme of Spirit for Service Through Prayers.
Although open to all, this service is principally intended for members of the Moss campaign committee and signed cards during the meetings.
Swingle Speaks to Zoologists
The Zoology Club met last evening in the biology library. Wilbur Swingle spoke on the life of Weismann and gave his theories of heredity and development. Owing to the concert in Robinson Gymnasium the remainder of the program was not carried out;
Marsh Returns
Prof. W. H. Johnson, high school visitor, returned yesterday from an inspection trip to Manhattan of the new $16,000 high school building in New York City. Emporia Thursday and other schools probably will be visited this week.
Visits Manhattan
Sigma.
The annual banquet of Sigma Xi, the honorary scientific fraternity, will be held in the Eldridge House, March 18, at 8 o'clock. A preliminary meeting of the pledges initiated. Sigma Xi has about sixty members in this local.
Open for Botanists The department of botany has received a new electric oven to be used in plant chemistry.
Sigma Xis to Banquet
Open for Botanists
Hollis Marsh, of St. Louis, spent Sunday and Monday on the Hill. Marsh was in school here last year.
HOUSE PROPOSES PLAN TO SETTLE DEADLOCK
Would Have Committee of Those Not From Districts Affected
A resolution introduced into the house last night, providing for a new conference committee on appropriations composed of legislators not coming from districts affected by appropriations offer the only hope of ending the deadlock before the regular session closes.
Half the Senate Disqualified
This provision leaves only half of the senators available for places on the senate conference committee, if the senate concurs this morning in the house amendments to the senate resolution. The senators who have no institutions for which the legislature has to make appropriations include Lambertson, of Brown; Bergman, of Penn.; Bouron; Overfield, of Montgomery; Paulen, of Wilson; Klein, of Allen; Wolf, of Ottawa; Stavley, of Osage; Meek, of Nemaha; Pauley, of Marshall; Wilson, of Washington; Howe, of Dickinson; Kinkel, of Morris; Joseph, of Butler; Denton, of Elk; Soley, of Seneca; Nighwonder, Elk; Nicoll; Summer, Nightswoner, McMillan, of Ottawa; Carney, of Cloud; Sutton, of Stafford; Malone, of Rawlings.
Unless such a compromise is reach- necessary to pass an appropriation bill.
BATTLE RAGES ON OREAD
After Brisk Fighting, Trace is De clared to Resume Studies
Twenty-five College students bombarded the Laws at 11:30 o'clock this morning. The charge was spirited and excellently conducted under the leadership on General Crummy Williamson. Fighting was brisk for the elements and snow-made ammunition struck frequently on both sides.
The Laws were led to retreat behind the strong walls of Green Hall under the direction of their gallant leader, General Miles Gates , and a truce was declared so that studies could be resumed.
PHI BETA KAPPAS WILL
BANQUET ON MARCH 19
The banquet to be given by Phi Beta Kappa for its new members will be held in the downtown Y. M. C. A. parlors March. 19. The program committee has practically completed arrangements for the affair with the exception of obtaining a speaker.
From present indications about one hundred people will attend the banquet, among whom will be a number of out of town alumni.
WANT TO BE SCHOOL
TEACHER? FILE NOW
Special letters will be sent out tomorrow to presidents of boards of education, informing them that the high school visitor's office is the place to obtain reliable and competent instructors.
Wanted: Fifty seniors to make applications for positions as high school instructors. There are 150 seniors in the School of Education and only about 100 of them have gone through the process necessary for obtaining positions as instructors. "Application should be made as soon as possible," Prof. J. Johnston, high school visitor, "as there are several positions to be filled and the first applications will be considered first."
C. R. Dooley of the Westinghouse Manufacturing Co., Pittsburgh, Pa., will visit the School of Engineering the first of next week. Mr. Dooley is coming here for the purpose of conferring with students wishing to take up work with his company. He will meet at the University Society next Tuesday evening in Marvin Hall on the subject "Lines of Work Open to Electrical Engineers."
Bible study classes are being organized at most of the fraternity houses. Leaders are being chosen from among the faculty men and local ministers. A complete schedule of these classes will be ready for publication before the end of the week.
Members of the freshman football team will meet at Con Squires' Thursday at 12:30 o'clock a picture for the Jayhawker. This will be the last chance that the first year men will have for a pose for the Annual.
Greeks to Study Bible
Tyros Will Pose
Send the Daily Kansan home.
WILL PICK TRACK MEN TO MEET MISSOURIANS
Hamilton Selects Jayhawker Today to Meet Tigers Friday Night
When this afternoon's tryouts for places on the Kansas track team have been concluded, Coach Hamilton will have one great burden off his mind. The problem of selecting the sprinters, hurdles and others to worry him and the Kansas representatives in what have heretofore been considered the weakest events, will have automatically eliminated their competitors for places on the team which meets the Tigers on the Kansas City boards.
The cup competition events will take place at 4 o'clock this afternoon at which time the heats in the various events will be staged. The 50 yard dash has three rules as well as possible that semifinals will have to be contested in these events. The hurdles have not yet drawn many entrants, but Lefty Sproul showed to better advantage in the last minute to remain first from strenuous basketball games will prove beneficial to his track work. Lefty may enter the high jump competition as well. He has the requisite amount of spring and the lanky build that could not be surprising if he were selected as McKay's team mate in this event.
However the coach will still have to use considerable gray matter in placing the men on his middle and long distance squads to best advantage. It really looks as though the coach could place his men in the most propitious races would carry off the honors. Poos and Graden will be the men we see for the 40th and advantage over the remaining contestants for places. However the mile and half mile events reveal an entirely different state of affairs. Herriott is a sure starter in the 8 furlong race but Edwards could be used in either the quarter, half, or mile contests and be a likely point winner in each. The same is true of Rodkey, but the choice in his case, for this meet, lies with the two competitors. However the selection of the proper race for each of these men may mean the winning or losing of the dual competition.
One thing is certain. Neither of these men can be used in more than one regular event for each will have to be in good shape to run a relay lap, as Kansas can not possibly count a sure 43 points on the relay. Neither would be a dependable man with the baton should he be compelled to run two races before the relay is called. The intervening time is too short to perform the entire app, and the neutral officials will probably see to it that no "lost shoe" tricks are played to stall for time and wind.
All Kansas men are in good condition despite the fact that the great religious campaign put a crimp into the training of the men by occupying too much space on the Gymnasium floor. On the other hand, looking at biblio-pages of gods, I favor the team from any institution which has had the stamp of approval placed on it by John R. Mott. Here is hoping, anyhow.
"All parts of the state are sending calls to teachers," Prof. W. H. Johnson, high school visitor, said this morning, when asked about the teaching chances over the state average in 2013, a little earlier than usual this year and I hope to find places for all the School of Education graduates."
KANSAS SCHOOLS WANT
K. U. GRADS TO TEACH
The call is coming for graduates of all departments. The positions offered are, according to Professor Johnson, quite satisfactory. The high school visitor's office has kept in touch with the high schools of the state and the regular letters all winter and is at present sending out a letter to all the principals of the accredited schools of the state with the idea of setting in better touch with the teaching field that will be open next year.
Engineers Plan Magazing
Engineers Plan Magazine
Students of the School of Engineering will issue a magazine on engineering Day when students in May, Engineering decided upon at a meeting of students and faculty of the school last night. The price will be 35 cents and the publication will be chiefly technical in nature but notes about engineering students will be included however.
Daily Kansan Meeting
Kansan Board meeting tonight at 7:15 o'clock in the office.
BEING A TRAGIC TALE OF A BROKEN PURSE
Freshman Can't Face Laundryman
A Yarn Entitled:
In the Quit Watches of the Night:
a Simple Amal of the Oppressed Stu-
dium.
It is 8 o'clock in a boy's rooming-house. No sound is heard but the incessant turning of leaves, punctuated now and then by a spattering "ping!" in the general reaffirmation of puffing of a wheeze pipe. The Boys Are Hard At Work. Suddenly there is heard in the hall below the melodious tinkle of the door-bell, and the word is quietly passed around among the fellows, Laundryman! The man esthetician at the door below holds the graften spellbound for a moment, and in that moment the penniless inhabitants of the upper floors make their getaway. One of them, a freshman in the College, was broke—flat without a sou—and the magic word intoxicate into exile in the closet of his room.
The laundryman came and went, but no sound or signs of life came from the freshman's closest. The others soon returned to their room, where they hid in hiding, he dared not face the grafter with the same old story. Anon one of the fellows would call for him in a loud voice, and the freshman in the Stygiian darkness among the sore and the cold of the closet would shiver in silence.
At last, however, his patience and his olfactory nerves wore out, and hhowly, with much peering about, sneaked back into his room. "Close up," he said and the fellas "He just left a minute ago, and he sire is on your trail."
PROM TICKETS GO ON SALE
Big Spring Formal Event, April 9 to Cost $3.50.
Tickets for the Junior Prom are to go on sale Monday morning, according to a statement made today by Bryan Davis who, with Alex Creighton, is managing the affair. A meeting of the finance committee is to be held this week, at which some twenty members will present their sets, and the list will be announced Friday. “We expect about 650 people to attend the Prom,” said Davis today. Word was received yesterday that Governor Arthur Capper and his wifi will be here to attend the Prom, and patrones of the event are: Hon. and Mrs. E. T. Hackney, Hon. and Mrs. F. B. McCormick, to attend the Frank Strong, Prof. and Mrs. C. A. Dykstra, Dean and Mrs. J. W. Green Prof. and Mrs. J. N. Van der Vries Dean and Mrs. Olin Templin, and Dean and Mrs. Frank W. Blackmar. As usual this year, though the event is formal," cabs and flowers will be taboo. The affair will begin at 7 o'clock, with the Junio '23 as several others in attendance, and refreshments will follow. Friday, April 9, is the date of the Prom. Invitations to certain faculty members and to those seniors who attended last year's Prom will be mailed this week.
Tickets of admission sell for $3.50 and may be purchased by any studen
WOMEN'S ASSOCIATION
TO ENTERTAIN WOMEN
The University Women's Association will serve a spring tea to all the women of the University tomorrow from 6:50 to 5:30 o'clock in Haworth Hall. 3
Mrs. Frank Strong, Mrs. Arthur Mitchell, Mrs. F. H. Billings, and Mrs. John N. Van der Vries will receive.
Henry Allen Here Sunday?
Heury Allen Here Sunday:
Harryallen is asked by the University Y. M. C. A. to come to Lawrence next Sunday to lead a big men's mass meeting. A telegram is hourly expected telling whether he can be here. The meet is in the morning of a follow-up meeting for the Motto campaign.
Prof. Douthitt Better
Prof. Herman Doutht, who recently underwent an operation for appendicitis, will be removed from the hospital to his home Saturday He will be meeting his classes again probably within a week or ten days.
Sigma Kappa sorority announces
newmanism program for Conway
Springs, as a pledge.
...
The Kansan is glad to print announcements in which you are interested. These should be sent to the office by phone 8:00 'o'clock on the day they are to be printed. K. U. 25 Bell.
INFANT REPORTER, SHE CALLS NEWSPAPERCUB
Miss Zoellner is Interviewed But Nearly Interviews Reporter
THEY STUDIED UNDER YASYI
"You Know Yasyi? He is Wonder ful—A Fierce Old Fellow, Eats With Knife."
"An infant journalist! Oh, how jolly!" Miss Antoinette Zoellner clapped her hands and gave a little gurgle, as Dean Skilton interrupted the flow of musical terms that was eddying about. Miss Zoellner, after the concert last night at the Gymnasium. She turned her back upon the group of admirers to smile at the reporter.
"No. Let's talk about you. That will be more interesting than me. I am tired of myself. What is it? The college paper? Oh, it must be great, my friend. That will be New York some day? That will be a great place for you--some day.
"No, we're just common Americans. Our accent? Well, father is a Bavarian and mother is French. But we children, my brothers and I, are Americans, born and reared in New York." She shook her head and smiled from under the gold lace edge of her little bonnet.
"We children are just Americans, though we have studied abroad. You know, mother travels with us, but right now she was weary and we sent her to California to forget the cares I did. Now my brother Joseph looks after us."
Miss Zoellner reached over and slipped her hand under her brother's arm, and drew him from a circle of admirers. That young man bowed most deeply to the reporter and asked him about the group of musicians who were glowering at the "cub" who was taking so much attention.
"You Won't Roast Me?"
Miss Zoellner held out her hand to the reporter, and smiled again her charming smile, "I am so glad I got my phone." Will you please? And you won't roast me too hard, in that papers of yours? And Joseph, tell her how to spell Yasyl's name. You see, Joseph told us of our family. He is quite bright."
Joseph Zoellner, Jr., who played the violoncello, seemed to be the concert meister, of the quartet, is very foreign in his appearance, and has a musicalist's long hair. He frowned at the reporter and then smiled.
His Sister Chatters
"My sister—, how she chatters"
But he didn't seem to really mind the chatter.
"And you think that you want to be a reporter and go behind the scenes and write up us folk who amuse you? Oh, you say that you do not pretend to understand music?
You are candid.
"We have most of our training under our father. Then he took us to Paris to study under Yasyl. You know Yasyl? He is wonderful. A fierce old fellow, that eats with his age. But he is a wonderful teacher.
"Well, I have told you more now than you will ever be able to remember. Let me call Antoinette. She will want to tell you good bye. And don't roast us too hard. Do we like to appear in print? Do we object to write ups? Well, I'll tell you, but you must not tell any one.
"No, you mustn't tell any one."
War Ruining Art of Music Says Musician
"It is impossible for people in this country to realize the destructive effect that the war in Europe is having on music as well as other arts and sciences," declared the leader of the Zoellner string quartet last night. When asked if he believed the conflict would render a permanent blow to the art of music he shook his head slowly and began to tell how much he felt in Belgium and France that have already shown a deteriorating effect on the art to which his family and himself have given their lives.
The musician told of the death of Casidus, the world's most famous cello player. Casidus was a member of the Cappet Quartet of Paris. The four musicians who formed that product were known for their more harmony from their instruments, than any other stringed instrument players in the world.
"When the war was declared, the cellist and the violinist were en-
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