TOPEKA KAN
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOLUME XI.
"THE FORTUNE HUNTER FINDS SYMPATHIZERS
NUMBER 153.
Hawk Play At The Bowersock Makes Hit With Audience Last Night
SOWERS STARS IN TITLE ROLE
Hazel Williams, Hatcher, Donald Burnett, Ida Perry, Wingert and Eldridge Carry Parts
The Hawk Club staged a goo,
show last night when they produced
"The Fortune Hunter." The
characters were well delineated, and with a few minor exceptions the actors all knew their lines.
Clarence Sowers carried the star part, and acted it to the deletion of everybody who saw him. His handling of a difficult character was much different if he was admirably done. Sowers played the part of "Nat" the fortune hunter.
Ida Perry, the woman lead, as "Betty Graham" played in good form, and her vivacious and charming stage appearance in the hit musical *Williams*, in her part of Angle Tucker, "the country town girl," reminded the bucolic and near bucolic part of the audience of social conditions based in the old city. It was well the part of a rather tame "villainess." Josie Lockwood.
With the assistance of a moustache which he has been sprouting for the past three weeks, Wayne Wingert most delicately excellented the part where Harry Kelleher financed his Every move of Pinky's and every word was in harmony with the character he portrared.
The fiery-haired country swain, "Tracy Tanner" was acted by Ray Eldridge. Eldridge was highly successful in this part and kept the audience amused with his ungrateful attitudes. Ward Hatcher deserves mention for the big-voiced and entertaining way in which he presented a large aggressive sheriff who feared his wife.
Lawrence Kninney played two difficult parts well. Guy Waldo delineated a sporty bank clerk; John Challis as the skinfint money lender; Don Joseph, as the crooked promoter, and Cecil DeRoin also acted.
Donald Burnett handled well two characters, the old druggist and the butler. He had cultivated a mournful and regretful tone of voice which was wholly in harmony with the character of "Sam Graham."
THINKS STUDENTS STOLE
HIS BLUE-BLOODED PUPS
B. D. Woodward, Lawrence Merchant, Almost Lost Terrier With Vanderbilt Connections
B. D. Woodward came near losing a valuable fox terrier, which he purchased from a cousin of Reggie Vanderbilt while in Florida; a student at the university that self same valuable fox terrier. "Twas thus wise.
Mr. Woodward shipped the dog to Lawrence and it was kept at the office of the Wells Fargo company until the arrival of Mr. Woodward from Florida. Yesterday morning the dog was brought to the office crated for shipment to Medford, Oklahoma.
The agent recognized the dog as being the same as the one just brought from Florida and so notified Mr. Woodward of the fact. As soon as Mr. Woodward was the manner in mind the little animal had in mind he immediately sent to the police station and swore out a warrant. An arrest in the student district will be made soon, it is understood.
The editors attending the Newspaper Week, and National Conference, will go to Manhattan on the 6:56 Union Pacific. Special coaches will be provided.
Phi Gams and Sigs Tie
The Phi Gams and Sigs Tie
The Phi Gams and Sigms Alma Chis
tic the Pan-Hellenic League when
the Phi Gams won 10 to 4.
Called Home by Father's Death Miss Sarah Laird, an instructor in rhetoric, is at her home in Ohio where she was called by the death of her father. She will meet classes again Tuesday.
McKEEVER TELLS TOWNS OF CHILD WELFARE PRIZES
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS THURSDAY AFTERNOON, MAY14. 1914.
Prof. W. A. McKeever of the Child Welfare department of the extension division will return Friday from an extended trip over the state in conducting the child welfare contacts between the different towns.
His lectures this week include Hanute, Baldwin, Eureka and other points in the southeast part of the state.
The first house warming in "The Women's Corner" in Fraser Hall will be given by Mrs. Enstace Brown, advisor to women, next Saturday from 2 to 6
ADVISOR OF WOMEN PLANS HOUSE-WARMING
The women students will be entertained from 2 to 4.30. From 4.30 to 6 the faculty, wives of the faculty and the University administration will be
Mrs. Brown Will Entertain Students and Faculty Members Saturday
On the receiving line will be: Mrs. Brown, advisor to women; Mrs. Frank Strong, Miss Eugenie Gongale, president of the W. M. C. Carroll, secretary of Y, M. C. A.; Florence Fquin, president of the W. Y. C.; and Florence Whicher, secretary Drothes Hackbush, member Lourie present president of the W, S. G. A.
The "Torch," senior society, two girls rom each class, and two from each ority, Allemann and Acheth, will assist, Mry. Brown in the serving.
Mrs. Cora G. Lewis, who originated he house-warming reception, will be unable to be present.
N. Y. EDITOR PRAISES KANSAS NEWSPAPERS
Frank LeRoy Blanchard Pay Them Tribute in Address
at K. U
Papers of Kansas received a tribute etoday from Frank LeRoy Blanchard, of New York City, editor of The Editor and Publisher, the great newspaper magazine, in an address before the two hundred years ago at the University of Kansas for Kansas Newspaper Week sessions.
Mr. Blanchard spoke on "Community Service" and pointed out the great number of ways the edifice built up and improve his town.
"No greater calamity can happen to a town, except destruction by fire, than the loss of its local newspaper," Mr. Blanchard declared. "Not in a thousand years will the country weekly be walked across many public sites outside daily newspapers are going to be read more and more by the people of country communities, and their circulations are going to increase correspondingly, but the paper that will ever retain the affections and honest love of those who reside in country weeks with its budget of country news about neighbors and friends whose daily lives touch each other at many points.
"Such talk is the veriest nonsense. The only country weeklies that are being driven out of business are those that have been found in news value or have been so badly hurt that their failure was inevitable."
"The editors," he said, "because of the very nature of the business in which they are engaged, must keep an eye on what is going on and take the lead in all movements for civic letterment. They are expected to point out the town's needs and show the way to their fulfillment."
"About every so often, someone, whose horizon is not much larger than that of a five quart tin milk pan, arise in a press association convention and solemnly declares that the day of the country weekly has passed and that it is only a question of a few years when the last of them will be obliged to suspend publication.
"See that your town is properly advertised," was another of Mr. Blanchard's suggestions. How often did the club in each town, whose business it was to see that the town was put on the map.
Mr. Blanchard urged the editors to make good opportunity for community
PUBLISHERS WOULD HAVE AD CENSORSHIP
Editors Adopt Resolution for Bureau at Meeting This Morning
250 ENROLLED IN COURSES
Fifty Add Names to Roster—Fair Play Committee Will Report to Conference This Afternoon
Resolved, that the publishers at this Newspaper Conference, in the interests of their real patrons, the readers, fully as much as in their own, favor a bureau of censorship, under the auspices of the department of journalism of the University of Kansas, which may decide through expert authority upon doubtful advertising that may be offered.
Frank MacLennan Richard H. Waldo Keith Clevenger
A resolution favoring a state board of censorship for advertising at the department of journalism was submitted to the newspaper conference this morning by a committee appointed by Chairman Charles Scott yesterdays. The lusion was unanimously, and conference then voted to present it as a memorial to the State Editorial Association at Manhattan.
Action was taken on the resolution this morning because of Chairman Waldo and Mr. MacLennan of the committee leaving for Topeka. This afternoon the committee on a board of fair play will report. This committee is James Melvin Lee, Will T Maves and Henry Allen.
At noon today 250 had enrolled
and added their names
this afternoon.
The third session of the National Conference yesterday afternoon was a live one. Following very interesting addresses by Mr. Waldo, and Mr. Barrons, and papers by Herbert S. Houston and Thomas Dreier, on the questions of whether advertising was not destroying the thrill of the nation, and which their newspaper did not be made to guarantee their advertising and their circulation, a general discussion was held.
the discussion was taken part by Mr. Hill, Mr. Marrons, Mr. Waldo, Mr. Clevenger, G. E. Morgan, Mr. Simons, Mr. Simons, and Mr. Blanchard.
At 6:30 the editors attended the Ad Club dinner at the Merchant's Association Hall. Short after dinner talks were made by Mr. Waldo, Mr. Blanchard, Mr. Vincent of the Topka Ad Club, and Mr. Britton of the Kansas City Ad Club. The editors then went to Perry Park Hall where the Fisher gave a lección to the Panama-Pacific Exposition and showed many colored slides and moving pictures of the coast and exposition scenes.
Harold E. Fitzgerald, of Nickerson, a freshman in the College, is confined to his room with an attack of malaria.
The American Society of Mechanical Engineers will meet this evening at 7 o'clock at the home of Prof. F. H. Sibley, 1607 Tennessee St. Papers as follows will be read: "Exhaust Steam Turbine" Gas Engine "Gas Engine Magazine" Hazen, and "Industrial Engineer," Butler.
George Fitch, the humorist, will be at the conference this afternoon and will go with the editors to the State Editorial Association at Manhattan.
The University orchestra gave a concert before the lecture.
Mechanicals to Meet
Former Senior Manager.
George A. Neal, '10, and Emelie Johanne Eiler of Appleton, Wisconsin, were married, at Buffalo, New York, March 14, 1914. They are at home in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.
Former Student Marries
The Epworth League of the Methodist church will give a picnic to all Methodist students of the University Friday evening. The crowd will meet at the church and go to Woodland park.
The Owl Junior society will meet tonight at the Student Union building at 7:30.
INDIVIDUAL INTEGRITY HOPE OF JOURNALISM
Hamilton. Holt Outlines The Means of Escape of Editors From Commercialism
"YELLOWS" WARNING HE SAYS
Influence of Sensational Newspapers
Rapidly Declines, Because Men
Learn to Think
Individual integrity and honesty alone can save the members of the journalistic profession from debasement by the commercial influence of advertising, declared Hamilton Holt, editor of the New York Independent, in an address in chapel this morning. Mr. Holt was discussing the relation between journalism and the press, and had branded the editor who sold his opinions to his advertisers as an intellectual prostitute.
"Iis journalism a profession or only a business?" asked Mr. Holt. "If it is a profession, then the responsibility of its shortcomings is to its ownself, assmily by individual journalists, who by united effort will endeavor to improve conditions. If it be a business then the publisher must acknowledge his subordination to the advertisers and will lose faith in his editorial works.
"Six reasons have made the newspaper what it is today, so far in advance of the pulpit and the platform as a public educator. They are Cheap transportation and low telegraph rates; invention of linotype and rotary press; production of photo; use of wood pulp paper, of advertising the cost of production, and the phenomena growth of advertising.
"Ninety per cent of the revenue of some of our municipal newspapers is derived from their advertising columns. Eighty per cent is a good average. And the growth of advertising is marvellous. Even churches are advertising. Sometimes it seems that the American people have not enough pumption to buy what they actually need without the intention of hypnotic or advertising. That is preceded by the way the sales of patient foods fall off when their advertising is limited.
"Way," continued Mr. Holt, in his satirical veil, "if the American people did not have to be told what was good for them they would soon abolish editors, ministers and lawyers paid for preaching what, other people practice."
"Commercialism is the greatest menace to the disinterested practice of a profession. And journalism is being affected just that way.
"The press-agent is one of the developments of modern journalism. And his activity has resulted in a new vocation, that of anti-press-agent. The anti - is employed many big concerns to avoid public
"Yellow papers are losing much of their influence. They are read only by the unthinking classes, and as a man reads he learns to think. Then the yellow press has no influence on him. But it doesn't necessarily because it gets the news to a public that without it would get no news."
Mr. Holt suggested four ways that the newspaper profession might escape from the influence of commercialism.
"Commercialism carries the germ of its own destruction. Moral forces will accomplish its overthrow: Here are some of the methods by which this may be accomplished: "By a larger circulation, by an union newspapers to be a union of publications to kill competition, and by an increase of personal integrity and character of the individual newspaper worker. And of these I thing the last will be the most efficient."
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Notice
Owing to a delay at the engravers, the 1914 Jayhawker will not appear tomorrow, as announced several days ago. The printers are now working night and day over it, so get it on the campus a week from tomorrow, Friday, the 22.
Russell H. Clark, Editor-in-Chief.
Send the Daily Kansan home.
DOUTHITT WILL SUCCEED
PROF TURNER IN ZOLOGY
Prof. Herman Douthitt has been appointed assistant professor of zoology for next year to take the Prof. C. L. Turner who has resigned.
Professor Douthitt has had two years of graduate work at the University of Chicago, and is now working for his doctor's degree.
CHEMICAL SOCIETY TO MEET FOR 201ST TIME
Will Listen to Discussions By Three Prominent Kansas Scientists
About two hundred months ago, the first meeting of the Kansas City Section of the American Chemical Society, was held in St. Louis. The meetings have been held every month at Lawrence or Kansas City, alternating each month between the two places. Next Saturday afternoon, in the chemistry lecture room at the Chemistry Building, the one hundred and second meeting of this section will be held. Several important questions will be brought up and discussed and three important papers will be presented to the State. The first will be Dr. F. T. Owen, of the Kansas State Normal, and will deal with the subject, "The Non-Industrial in Chemistry." The second paper will be read by Dr. D. L. Randall, head of the department of chemistry at Baker University, who has done a great deal of work in the laboratories and is well qualified to discuss his subject, "Water Earths and The Spirations." The last paper will be on the progress in Organic Industrial Chemistry" and will be read by Mr. J. B. Whelan, of the University of Kansas.
LAMER TO CONTEST ELECTION
Defeated Candidate for Student Council Charges Polls Were Closed Before Time
LaMer charges that the pollers were closed between ten and eleven o'clock while they should not close until twelve. The votes counted at the election gave LaMer's opponent, Boone, on vote majority.
Vie LaMer, defeated candidate for membership on the Men's Student Council from the School of Medicine, will contest the election at which he was defeated on the ground that the polls closed earlier than the constitution provided for and that all votes were not in at the time of closing.
LaMer intended bringing up the matter at the meeting of the Council last night, but was unable to do so. He will have his case at the meet on Tuesday night.
IARIS AWARDED $500
FOR COLLISION INJURY
Clyde Maris, a former University student who was injured in a motorcycle collision with a street car, has been charged against the Street Railway Company.
The plaintiff asked for $10,000 for the injuries received when the motorcycle he was riding collided with a street car at the intersection of Tenth and New Jersey, May 5, 1912.
The delegates to the Kansas Pharmaceutical Association now meeting in Hutchinson have determined to organize contests for KU's School of Medicine.
PHARMISTS WILL ENTER
ARENA FOR K. U. SCHOOL
This stand was take n by the druggists because at present more assistance is needed in analyzing the drugs taken to the School of Medicine for tests in support of the state pure drug laws.
Graduate Sends Specimens
The chemical museum recently received from Herbert S. Bailey, '02, of the department of agriculture at Washington, a set of samples to illustrate the cottonseed oil industry as carried on in the South. Mr. Bailey has chartered an oil and fat lab for the government and has returned recently from a trip of inspection of the Southern cottonseed oil mills.
George F., Weida, 88, and Mrs. Weida, a former student, have recently moved into their new home in Cambier, Ohio. Mr. Weida has been professor of chemistry in Kenyon College for the past seven years.
W. S. G. A. WILL WORK FOR WOMEN'S UNION
Is 1914-15 Council's Big Task Says Newly-Chosen Presi-
ident
OUTLINES BODY'S POLICIES
Will Try to Place Responsibility for Rule-Enforcement on Women by District Organization
In accepting the power on behalf of the new Council, Dorothea Hackbusch, the new president, outlined its policies and prospects.
A final and formal transferrence of all official duties and obligations of the W. S. G. A. into the hands of the 1914-15 Council was made at 4:30 o'clock this afternoon when the old and new councils of the W. S. G. A. met with Mrs. Eustace Brown, advisor to women, in Fraser Hall.
"The big work of this Council will be the establishment of a Women's Union," said Miss Hackbusch. "Another thing we will take up will be house and district organization among the girls in rooming houses so that the reservation of units will fall upon the girls themselves and not as at present, upon the land-ladies."
in her talk, Mrs. Brown urged the Women's Union plan and emphasized the fact that there was no use waiting for a dormitory since the present conditions of social organization among the women of the University demanded some such place as soon as possible.
On behalf of the old Council, Maude Lourey stated that the outgoing Council members were more than willing to lend any help they could to start tentative plans for a Union before the close of school.
Plans were discussed for holding a woman's chapel next week at which Mrs. Brown will preside and at which the delegates to the National Student Government Associations convention will tell the girls about their trip, and how things are done at other universities.
MERCHANTS' WEEK ADDS TO EXTENSION STUDENTS
Course Offered Causes Enrollment of Store Owner and Five Clerks of Middlebrook
As a direct result of the Mercants' course held last week at the University, six new members have been enrolled in the courses offered by the University division on Sharesmanship and Management of A Retail Store."
In a general merchandise store at Robinson, owned by the Middlebrook Bros., a merchant and five clerks have enrolled in these courses. They prepare the regular lessons sent them by the extension division, and in addition, all of them meet together once a week to talk over the various matters discussed in the lessons.
ANNOUNCES MANAGERS OF
MUSICAL ORGANIZATIONS
Prof. C. E. Hubach announced this morning his appointments to the managerships of the Glee and Mandolin clubs for next year.
Harold E. Wheelock will pilot the singers, and S. Waite Mickey will manage the mandolin artists. Wheelock says that arrangements are a form of public art and the state next winter, and that prospects are unusually bright for a trip to California.
Ten Grads Are Judges
Ten distinct judges in Kansas are graduates of the University. The names and numbers of the districts follow: Second, W. A. Jackson, 88; tenth, J. O. Rinkin, '93; fourteenth, J. O. Rinkin, '94; fifth, C. Ruppelt, '95; first division twenty-ninth, E. L. Fischer, '92; second division twenty-ninth, F. D. Hutchins, '83; thirty-first, G. C. Finley, '93; thirty-third, G. C. Finley, '93; thirty-fourth, G. C. Smith, '76; thirty-sixth, Oscar Raines, '94.
Dr. Robert K. Nabours, professor of zoology and an expert animal breeder in the Kansas State Agricultural College, left recently for his investigation of the Karakule sheep raising industry in Turkestan.
The committee having in charge the creation of a fund for a marble bust of Dean F. O. Marvin has received more than $500.