UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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VOLUME XII.
NUMBER 33
HODGES REITERATES STAND FOR MILL TAX
Governor Declares for Amend ment in Telegram to the Daily Kansan
Managing Editor, Daily Kansan,
Lawrence, Kansas:
Gov. George H. Hodges has reiterated his stand for a mill tax. In a telegram to the Daily Kansan, in answer to a letter sent all the gubernatorial candidates, he says: Mr. John M. Henry.
I declared myself in favor of the mill tax two years ago in two speeches made in Lawrence, one of which prompted me to call Your attention is also called to the fact that the Democratic legislature of 1913 gave the University direct appropriations of $123,638.84 more than received in 1911, and allowed it to return the fees that heretofore been turned into the state treasury.
(Signed) George H. Hodges.
Governor Hodges will speak at the P.
A. Hall tonight on the mill tax
Student Union building at 715,
Student Union building at 715, and march to the Hall, led by Cheerleader Jo Berwick and the University band.
APPLICATIONS FOR TICKETS FLOOD HAMILTON'S OFFICI
Many Students Take Note of An announcement Made by Athletic Management
Although the first announcement of the ticket sale for the Missouri game appeared last night in the Daily Kansan, Manager W. O. Hamilton's morning's mail was unusually heavy with requests for tickets. Each letter was opened in the order received and the number of tickets asked for allotted. A card will be sent to each ticket carrier tell him that his application has been received and the tickets reserved. The purchaser can then present this card on the date of sale, November 4th and receive his tickets.
Senior Play Will Trent of Amorou
Emotions of Facultatus
WHAT! A PROFESSOR IN LOVE!!
All orders should be either sent by mail or placed in a University mail box. Manager Hamilton asks that the students send their applications for tickets this way as by bringing them in person to the office the office work is seriously interfered with.
"The Professor's Love Story," a three-act English comedy, is the title of the senior play for this year. After much consideration the committee has finally announced its choice of a production.
The cast will be selected entirely on the merit basis. As the proceeded of the production 'are to go to the class instead of the play manager it will be more of an honor to be in the cast than heretofore. Each person trying out for a place will be expected to come prepared to give a short selection, either committed to memory or to be read from a book The former is much preferred good thing for Kansas.
Tryouts will be held in Room 3 of Green Hall at 7 p. m. on Wednesday and Thursday, November 4 and 5, under the supervision of Professors MacMurray and Hill of the public college dedicated to the deaf and Duke Kennedy, manager of the play. The cast calls for seven men and five women.
S. SORORITIES TO CONTRIBUTE
Women's Pan-Hellenic Will Give Sum to Red Cross Fund
The Women's Pan-Hellenic Association is considering making a lump contribution to the University Red Cross fund as a part of the regularly yearly associated charities of the organization. The matter is being discussed now, and the amount will be announced this week.
Today's contribution to the fund follow:
Previously acknowledged $106.00
G. W. Stratton 5.00
Arvin Olin 10.00
Alice Winston 5.00
Hearty Brown 1.0
Merle Thorpe 5.00
Dexel Powell .25
M. C. 1.00
Bennet M. Allen 2.00
H. P. Cady 5.00
C. E. Williamson 1.00
Anonymous .50
4. 5.
WERE ALL GOING TO
CHURCH NOVEMBER 8TH
"Every one connected with the University in church Sunday November 8th," is the self-appointed task of the University Sunday committee. The pastors of the different churches are to deliver special sermons that day and a call will be made in nearly all of the churches for the students to unite with the church congregations.
A committee has charge of the work composed of Rev. Noble S. Elderkin, E. A. Edwards, O. C. Brown, Miss A. Gittins of the Y. W. and Secretary Conrad Hoffman of the Y. M. C. A. to forth their most efforts to make November 8, a record-breaking Sunday.
MONTGOMERYITES ORGANIZE
Shinn Asks Students from This County to Meet Tonight
Reorganization of the Montgomery county club will take place at 3:30 o'clock tomorrow afternoon in Room 110, Fraser Hall. Henry Shinn, a member of the county club committee of the Student Council, has called a meeting for that time and expects to have a large crowd out.
Coffeille and Independence are the largest towns in Montgomery county and each of these sends a student to the University.
The Montgomery county club has been a successful organization in past years and with its revival the second influential organ for the purpose of securing the mill tax will be organized. If the state the Cherokee county club was organized recently and the wo expect to work together.
WILL PUNISH THE OFFENDERS
Student Council Requests That Facility Send in Complaints
The Student Council requests those members of the faculty whose classes were disturbed during the rally on October 23, to meet with the Council Thursday night in a special meeting at the Student Union, called for a 15:30 clock. The tasks include defining the names of those who are guilty of a violation of the University ruling regarding such matters.
The Student Council met last night only to adjourn to special session Thursday evening.
CHEMICALS CHEAT WAR
MAKE OWN APPARATUS
Students in the department of chemistry are running in opposition to the German apparatus factories. They are making part of the required apparatus for the electro-chemical classes.
On account of the war in Europe standard cells for electric experimental work can not be obtained from Germany, so some of the advanced students are making them in the laboratories.
The standard cells, before the war
sold at twelve dollars each. The
wins were greeted with the beining
gift of the war money the cells
can not be obtained at any price.
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, OCTOBER 28, 1914.
The Kansas Engineering Society will draft a bill providing for a state highway commission and have it introduced in the legislature this winter. The bill is the result of a visit to Iowa by Prof. H., A. Rice.
ENGINEERS COPY LAWYERS
BY DRAFTING NEW BILL
He investigated the Iowa commission, and the Engineering Society, of which he is chairman, decided that such a board of control would be $r$
The regular Tuesday night Varsity and freshmen basketball practice was held last night in the gymnasium with about sixty-five men out in suits. A varsity squad of four of last week's players, including six picked freshmen five, Captain Dunnire, Weaver, Cole, Sproull and Folks composed the Varsity lineup Three other teams, of Varsity candidates and tyros played a practice game, giving twenty men an opportunity to get into the game. The first team of the candidates Manager Hamilton will reduce the tyre squad to twenty. There are now nearly forty freshmen out for the team. Tomorrow will
VARSITY AND FRESHIMEN
BASKET-TOSSERS PRACTICE
practice will start promptly at 7 o'clock.
K. U. Can Make It $1000
If a child in Lawrence had lost his father and mother and was wandering around, friendless, crying for something to eat, there's not a K. U. man who wouldn't help that luckless kid.
If a woman in Lawrence were homeless and obliged to sleep in freezing fields, there's not a K. U. man who wouldn't dig to the bottom of his pocket to help her.
If a poor baby in Lawrence were dying because of lack of milk, there's not a K. U. man who wouldn't see to it that that baby got food.
If a man in Lawrence, frightfully mangled, needed ether to alay the pain of a surgeon's knife, there's not a K. U. man who wouldn't run a mile or spend his last dollar to an anaesthetic for that poor devil.
Because this homeless woman, this hungry kid, this dying baby, and mangled man, are not in Lawrence, but are a thousand miles away, will not make any difference to the thoughtful K. U. Man. The cry is just as pitiful, the need as insistent, from the fields of stricken Belgium, as if from Douglas County.
A K. U. man's dollar will keep twenty starving women and children in food for one day.
FIRST YEAR MEN TO EAT,
DRINK AND BECOME MERRY
K. U. men will not let distance dull the edge of their natural humankindness.
Freshmen Will Hold Get-Aequinte
Meeting, With Speeches, Refreshments and Music
The freshmen are to have a mixer. The event is to come off Wednesday evening, November 4th, at eight o'clock in "Eagles" Hall. Smokes, eats and short talks by faculty men will furnish entertainment. Between two and three hundred freshmen are expected to attend.
Professors H. A. Rice, W. L. Burdick, and H. T. Hill will speak. The refreshments will be of the best-ever sort, and an occasional song will be given. The tickets are being sold for admission to the mixer, at twenty-five cents per. They may be purchased from any member of the mixer committee. Bruce Baker, Russell Friend, Fred Baker, Charles Watson, or O. W. liams.
GRAD IS MEDICAL ADVISOR
Former Stanford Athlete Now on Alma Mater's Faculty
H. R. Stolz, has returned to his alma mater as medical advisor of the men students. Stanford University has for many years recognized the importance of giving medical aid to those students who may be in need of treatment and of the college semester and has maintained an infirmary and physicians.
Stolz comes as an addition to that branch of the faculty and will also be the director of Encina Hall, the large dormitories for men. Men students who feel that they are in need of treatment but are not ill enough to be confined in an infirmary will consult Stolz. It will be his duty to attempt to prevent disease as well as its cure.
The cut will occupy two pages in the notebook and will be printed in a tint.
"Stubby Stolz, as he is better known to followers of athletics in the Middle West, has been seen in action in the western conference as a memoirist, a sports writer, and Notre Dame for first place in 1910. Later he was chosen Rhodes scholar from California and spent the three following years at Oxford studying medicine. While there he was a player in the English team of the English school. He represented America at the Olympic Games in Stockholm.
EVERYONE TO SEE HIMSELF
"I am highly in favor of the plans of the Jayhawker Board for getting group pictures of the classes in the annual," said Chancellor Frank Strong today. "I look forward to the time when every student in the school will have a chance to see himself in the board and the efforts of the 1915 Jayhawker Board along that line should receive support."
Manager of Annual Wants to Get Group Pictures of Classes
The editor and manager of the annual this year are making an effort to get everybody's picture in the Jay-Z group, having the classes take group pictures now at work collecting a quarter from every member of the class who wants in the group. A quarter each will cover all expenses of the pie and money that is left over will be earned into the class memorial fund.
Fifth Week of Missouri Valley Football Season Shows Strength of Rival Camps
The fifth week of the Missouri Valley football season shows Kansas and Nebraska running at breakneck Both teams have been undefeated speed for the championship title. These their games with comparative ease.
Nebraska made remarkable progress after the South Dakota game and it looks like the Cornhuskers at the Jayhawkers stop them. Washburn, South Dakota, Kansas Aggies and Michigan Aggies have failed to shuck Nebraska's corn and the Neer game so seem to gather strength as they go.
Tiger Seems Wobbly
Missouri went down another peg when Ames won from her Saturday. The Tigers seem to be wobbly this season but it will take the Kansas Aggie-Missouri team to show the hatred that Kansas has and souri. Oklahoma and Rolla both crushed the Tigers while their only victory was against William Jewell.
Washburn now threatens to prove troublesome and Coach Wheatton expects a close game from the Ichabods. The Topeakans defeated the College of Emporia 20 to 2 Satur-
days, and with the Emporians by a single touchdown.
Drake and the Kansas Aggies are loomed up behind by defending Mississippi.
Kansas has won from two Valley teams by big scores which ranks them with Nebraska as title contenders.
FROSH NEEDS BIG BROTHER
Work Began Last Year—Secretary
Con Hoffman Taking Part
The Big Brother movement now being worked out by Kansas is a great thing according to Con Hoff general secretary of the Y. M. C. A.
Last summer Secretary Hoffman sent out 400 letters with a handbook to the prospective Kansas freshmen. Half the freshmen in school responded by attending the big supper given for them the first week of school. The Big Brother work was accomplished this fall to a certain extent by a committee from the Student Council who met all trains and helped find furnished rooms for new students.
Last year the Student Union commitee arranged for a series of supper- sessors. The sesseors. The plan was a success, and will be worked out again this year.
JURISPRUDENCE CLUB
ELECTS NEW MEMBERS
The Jurisprudence Club is an honorary upperclassman society composed of students in the School of Law. Regular meetings are held every three weeks, at which the legal phase of questions of public interest are discussed. The next meeting will be held Wednesday, November 4th.
Eight men were elected to membership in the Jurisdirezione Club and Thomas J. Horsley and Sam Degen were chosen president and secretary, respectively, at the last meeting. The new members of the Racine Rowing Club, Hempill, Wm M. Beall, E. A. Tayler, Miller M. Billner, Victor K. La Merer, Harold Branine, John P. McCammon, and John M. Martin.
SILICA SILVER REPLACES
PLATINUM IN CRUCIABLES
The department of chemistry has found a substance which promises to replace platinum in the making of crucibles. It is silica silver.
The Bureau of Standards at Washington began investigations to find a substitute for the expensive platinum and the University chemistry department took up the search. It was the result of a 1978 quartz, gold and other minerals, and the department received a shipment of silical crucibles a few days ago.
Sigma Phis Pledge
Sigma Phi Sigma announces the pledging of Hugh A. Grutzmacher, of Onega; A. Leamer Smith, of Eudora; and Mahlon S. Munson, of ElDorado.
PEDAGOGUES WILL CONVENE
Dean Arvin Olin is Sending Out Programs for Teachers' Convention
Dean Arvin Olin of the School of Education has been sending out communication in connection with a conference of college teachers of education in the Middle West, which will convene December 29 and 30 in Kansas City. At least fifty representatives from ten states to attend the two days' session
Dran Aevin Olin and Professors R. K. Swiegler, R. E. Carter, C. A. Buckner and Herbert Nutt will represent the University of Kansas. The Wake Forest School of Education will read a report on "Uniform Nomenclature for College Courses." "There has been much difference in courses bearing the same name," declared Dean Olin "and the conference probably will be used, will give the same name to similar courses it different universities."
Dean G. W. A. Lucky of the School of Education of the University of Nebraska will talk on "Essentials in Training of a Teacher." There probably will be another address but the program has not been completed. The third question will not be anounced for a few days.
Convocation Notice
On the recommendation of the Committee on Convocations I am calling a convoction for Friday, October 30th, at 11 o'clock, to be in charge of the Men's Student Council.
Frank Strong, Chancellor.
COMPANY M GIVES MEDALS
K. N. G. Awards Prizes in Regular Monthly Drill in Gym
The regular monthly competitive drill of Company M, of the K. N. G. was held last night at the gymnasium. Corporal Merrill Daum won the bronze medal offered to the most proficient non-compressed officer, and G. A. Smith won that offered to the most proficient private. Each of these medals becomes the property until the next competitive drill when the winner of that drill. At the end of the season the medals become the permanent property of the man who has held them the most times.
At the rifle shoot Saturday Corporal Meridith and M. J. Adams freshman engineer, made the qualification of expert, riflemen; Frank Storts, freshman College, made sharpshooter record; and C. M. Long sophomore Engineer, made markings on the course 39 qualified men. The last shoot of the season will be held at Six Corners next Saturday.
Debate Question in Doubt
Although the question for debate with the Sooners have been recorded by the Jayhawk committed and sent to the Oklahomaans over a veege ago, no replies have been received.
The result of the negotiations still remains in doubt. Last year Kansas had some trouble in arriving at a suitable question for debate with the Sooners, and the prospects this year seen to indicate that the Oklahomaans will continue to delay their decision.
Advises School Board
Department of School Board
The department of architecture of the School of Engineering has been requested by the Board of Education of Russell to advise them in the development of a system of school buildings and grounds. Prof. Goldwin Goldsmith, head of the department of architecture has just returned from a visit to Russell where he was called to consult with the Board regarding plans of school development.
THREE DEFEATS STING KANSAS INTO ACTION
Jayhawkers Work Hard to Eface Stigma of Consecutive Whippings by Oklahoma
In the eleven years that the Jayhawk and Sooner have been batting for supremacy on the gridiron, Kansas has been the victor eight times. The Ravens haveemen have administered have all been in the last three years. This is the reason that next Saturday's game with the men of Benny Owen is being ranked next to the Nebraska team by the Warthog that Wheaton's men want to wif.
For the past three years during the time that the Sooners have made their string of victories the eleven has been coached by Benny Owen, a former basketball player as a coaching possibility for the Jayhawk eleventh winter.
The list of the Oklahoma-Kansas scores follows:
1913—Kansas 7 Oklahoma 21
1912—Kansas 5 Alaska 5
1911—Kansas 0 Oklahoma 3
1910—Kansas 2 Oklahoma 0
1908—Kansas 12 Oklahoma 0
1906—Kansas 0 Oklahoma 0
1907—Kansas 15 Oklahoma 0
1906—Kansas 20 Oklahoma 4
1905—Kansas 34 Oklahoma 0
1904—Kansas 16 Oklahoma 0
1903—Kansas 17 Oklahoma 5
A HUNDRED YARD DASH IN TEMPLE OF HEAVEN
K. U. Graduate Writes of Track Meet in Shadow of Sacred Halls of Chinese Emperor
Holding a track meet under the shadow of a temple where formerly a Chinese emperor made his sacrifices, and running the hundred-yard dash over the ground that used to be offered up to the god of the harvest, is the singular experience of Charles. He, a K. U. graduate, who is secretary of the Yuan dynasty in China. In a letter he tells about Chinese running footraces who were punished for running a few years ago.
"These are great days in China," he says. "The national games have just been held in the Temple of Heaven at Peking. I spent the whole week there refereeing basketball and as a timer on the track. One could argue that it was a contrast between the present activities on the track, and the sedate old reminders of the past which were on all sides. The altar of heaven, where the emperor formerly sacrificed, was but a short distance away. The team would merely be broken by the emperor each spring as a sort of offering to the god of harvest. And the great tower of the temple itself fairly overlooked the track, and was a reminder of the advance which the past few years have so China to mind much sure roundings. Just this morning he bear an announcement shout through his megaphone in English, 'Last call for the hundred yard dash!' for you must remember that a large per cent of the present generation of students speak English. And one might easily have heard the ball be filed as some cheer leader stepped front and led his 'gang' in a good, roaring yell.
"Our track records aren't much yet. Five feet, six and five-eighths inches, in the high jump; twenty feet, five inches, in the broad jump; ten feet, ten inches, in the two-fifths seconds in the 100 yard dash. We Chinese' think these records fairly good, considering the thousands of years through which a child he's been beaten by its teacher for running when on the road to or from school, and especially in view of his own Chinese adage says that a learned teacher's head should be so heavy that he is stoof shouldered.
"Tientsin is a great student center, and it is improbable that our present new building will be adequate to meet the need for any length of time.
"There are now twenty-five city associations with over six thousand student associations with a membership which is hard to count, in China."
Kansan Board Notice
Bard Nielse
The Kansan Board met most tonight, but will hold a business session in the office immediately after the journalism lecture tomorrow.
Alpha Chi Sigma, chemical fraternity, announce as pledges Ennest Todd and Auley McAuley.
Ruth Ewing, a junior in the College, is spending a few days with friends in Parsons.