STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY
TOPEKA KAN
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOLUME XI.
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, MARCH 18, 1914
NUMBER 114.
47 TEAMS TO PLAY IN K. U. TOURNAMENT
Nineteen Feminine and Twenty-eight Boy Fives Enter High School Meet
PLAN TO CARE FOR VISITORS
University Women Organize Big Sister Movement to Entertain Guests—Look for Rooms
With 47 teams entered in the Seventh Annual Interscholastic Basketball tournament the entry list at Manager Hamilton's office closed Monday, and unless a delay mails kept some of his team sending in our names until it was too late, to more fives will be allowed to enter.
Nineteen girls' teams, and twenty-eight boys' fives will contest here Friday and Saturday, and the Jay-hawker lovers of sparring with basketball, and good basketball at that, furnished them from morning till night.
The girls' teams that will fight for the state championship are Alton, Arkansas City, Atchison, Baldwin, Beloit, Bonner Springs, Buffalo, Burlingame, Burlington, Ellsworth, Linwood, Parsons, Sterling, Sylvan Grove, Colby, Wamaco, Wellsville, State City, and Whitewater. Of these nineteen teams a few made the trip up to Lawrence last year. Sterling and Bonner Springs competed for the championship.
The boys' teams are Ashland, Atchison, Baldwin, Bonner Springs, Burlington, Clay County, Dickinson County, Dodge City, Downs, Ellsworth, Fairview, Fort Scott, Great Bend, Havensville, Ila. Kansas City, Kan., Longton Mackenzie, Mankato, Trego County, Reno County, Stateville, Sterling, Summit County, Syllan Grove, Washita Wichita, Winfield. Lawrence of course will enter the competition, but has not yet turned in its entry.
The girls of the University are organizing a big sister movement, are getting rooms for them, and are making preparations to give them a good time. Anyone having rooms to offer should give her name to Evelyn Strong, chairman of this committee. Manager Hamilton, at his office in Gymnasium, will also take the duties of all who have rooms to rent.
The players on the various teams follow:
Girls.
Arkansas City: Gertrude Cox,
Miss Grove, Una Nicholas, Daisy
Palmer, Mary Probat, Clara Rothaus,
Ruth Cullen, Ruth Waddle,
Vinnie Snapper.
Alton; Esther Sparks, Florence
Bock, Corrinene McClellan, Lucie
Cox, Fern Earl, Ethel Loomis, and
Louise Cox.
Achison: Names of entries not vet received .
Beloit: Mary Moss, Mary Darrow,
J. O. Wilson, Essert Petterson,
Catharine Stoner, Mary Williams,
Oral Elder, Eva Dunham.
Haldwin: Grace Holmes, Florence Banker, Ellyn Wright, Florence Johns, Grae Dean, Thelma Shockey, Effie Mercant, Marjorie Keohane.
Bonner Springs: Marjorie Axe, Eva Green, Myna Stanford, Georgia Pigg, Florence Kenton, Lucile Raven, Naoma Glynn, Helen Green.
Buffalo: Byrd Wiss, Una Landrith
Ella Orr, Martha Gear, Ur Gunby
Vinne Offnbacher, Christie Holcomb.
Burlingame: Josephine Bolton
Nellie Hull, Mina Schenk, Gertrude
Kelley, Lillian Donnell, Margaret
Smith, Alma Kirkner.
Burlington: Susie Nesbit, Ruth Gibbons, Edna Hitchens, Hilda Wharton, Gladys Congdon, Nellie Hitchen, Adah Whistler, Annie
Ellsworth: Neita Schmitt, Dorothy Day, Nellie Duley, Albina Novak, Evelina Watt, Gladys O'Donnell, Minnie Mayer, Pearl Allen.
Linwood: Elsie Elder, Alive Meinke, Ella Godfrey, Mabel Anderson, Kate Hicks, Harriet McKinney, Jessie Wright.
Parsons: Mabel Kane. Fern Cloughley, Thelma Walls, Fern Newton, Bertha Perry, Hildegarde Hewitt, Helen Young, Eva Smith.
Sterling: Lulu Henry, Mae Zimmerman, Emma Steele, Helen Hanks, Mabel Zimmerman, Gertie Smith, Jessie Edwards.
Sylvan Grove: Ethel Gatewood,
Nina Heller, Lulu Beverly, Stella
Osterfund, Esther Dehler, Lucile
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PLANS MADE FOR SOPH HOP
Farce Will be Given in Connection
—Tickets For Sale by
Committee
All preliminary arrangements have been completed for the sophomore ion and farce.
The committee which is now working on the selection of the farce will announce its choice within a few weeks. The committee will set the date for the tryout.
the hop will start at 6 o'clock with the fare,dancing will last until 2. A four-course dinner will be served throughout the evening. a piece orchestra led by Halley of Kan-
city will furnish music for the affair.
Clyde Van Derlip, manager of the hop, today announced the following committee from whom tickets may be obtained: George Rathert, W. M. Beall, D. J. Ryan, B. E. Park, Ruth Peirs, Olive Braden, Helen Tran, Ruth Lillis and Bertha Smith. Tickets will be sold at $2.50.
COLLEGE GLEEMEN PUT ON GOOD SHOW
Joint Concert of K.U. and Washburn Singers Pleases Audience
"For it's nice to get up in the
But it's nicer to stay in bed." So sang Clarence Sowers, Harry Lauder's mimic, at the joint concert of the Kansas and Washburn blee g clubs in Fraser Hall last night. The burlesque of the original Harry Lauder was most the most popular act inities, slapping a cane on his face with his face made up, and a red wig on his head, the Kansas gleeman was an exact replica of the famous vaudevillian.
Three other numbers vied with each other in popularity, "A Negro Sermon," sung by Frank A. Ripley of the Washburn, "You Can't Play Every Instrument in the Orchestra," by Morris of Kansan, and "Fitzpatrick of Kansas," Ripley's negro dialect was good, and he possesses a pleasing bass voice. Morris sang his German songs, responding to an encore with "Why Is the Ocean so Near the Shore," in his usual lyrics. Fitzpatrick unfolding a beautiful voice in "On the Road to Mandalay."
Other songs which pleased the audience were the Danish and English folk-songs, given by the Washburn club, and the same group's encore "Drink to Me Only With Thine Eyes," lead by Dean Whitehouse.
"COUNT NO. A. COUNT"
TO REAPPEAR TONIGHT
The second production of the senior play, "Count No. A. Count," will be given at the Bowersock theater tonight for the benefit of the visiting nurse fund of the Social Service Hospital.
Lawrence women have charge of the presentation.
The little University postoffice in the registrar's office did a thriving business last year, the sales of money orders and stamps alone amounting to $6386.17. Other revenue was collected from 351 registered letters and parcels and from 158 insured parcels.
K. U. POSTOFFICE DOES VOLUMENUS BUSINESS
This business was transacted between March 1, 1913, and February 28, 1914. During the Christmas holidays the small latticed box overflowed with parcel post parcels for the monsoon season exceeding $500. The average sales of stamps, however vas $309.3 a month.
Will Speak on Code of Moses Dr. W. L. Burdick, of the School of Law, will speak on "The Code of Moses" in Myers Hall at four o'clock Sunday afternoon. All students, and those of the School of Law especially, are invited to hear this lecture.
The Weather
Weather Forecast: Unsettled and cloudy tonight and tomorrow. Cold wave tonight.
Temperature readings:
Temperature readings:
9 p. m. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 %
7 a. m. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 %
2 p. m. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
THE SITUATION
ANSAS VOLCANIC ASH MANY H. S. TEACHERS HAS VARIETY OF USES WILL CLIMB MT. OREAD
Deposits In Many Localitie Are Valuable. Says Erasmus Haworth
For twenty years, Prof. Erasmus Haworth, of the department of geology, has been receiving letters from various parts of the state, asking for information concerning the deposits of volcanic ash found in many parts of Kansas. In an answer to this question, he advised the practical use of this natural product, but it is only recently that people have come to recognize its value.
Many, many years ago, but comparatively recently, geologically speaking, the active volcanoes of the Rocky Mountains belched forth great quantities of fine ash. The wind scattered over them country wide, varying degrees of thickness and purity. It is now found in strata.
Send the Daily Kansan home.
Mu Phi Epsilon has pledged Abby Louise Fuller, of Lawrence.
Companies have now been formed to mine this ash and to manufacture from it a variety of useful products, such as polishing powder, silver polish, mechanics soap, and specially prepared polishing cloths. The ash is to be found in some where differing types of minerals alone, and is being taken out at several places. Factories have been located at Wichita and Anthony.
In a letter to Professor Haworth, Mr. D. E. King, Industrial Commissioner of the Missouri Pacific Railway, has explained another interesting use of volcanic ash. He says that the ash, by a melting process, is made into fine slabs for interior finish. For instance, he used new Turkish baths in which Illinois Athletic Club of Chicago are made from this material. The proposed Morrison Hotel will contain $150,000 worth of it.
Prof. Erasmus Haworth of the department of geology, is in Coffeyville today attending a meeting of the Kansas Clay Workers' Association, and he is assistant to the president of this association. He will return to Lawrence in the morning.
Mr. King says that one company in Kansas manufactures slabs for interior finish by putting silica sand with ash and melting it.
Haworth to Coffeyville
Dean Olin Expects 300 at Annual Conference This
Week
"We expect from 250 to 350 state high school teachers to attend the annual conference of high schools and academies Friday and Saturday," said Dean A. S. Olin, of the School of Education, this morning.
"Because of the basketball tournament held at the some time, many high school pupils will be in Lawrence. The teachers will thus have double duty to perform; looking after the young people in the tournament, and attending the conference meetings."
It is probable that classes in the School of Education will be dismissed during the conference. This is to give the students, as well as the teachers, a chance to enjoy the two days' program.
The conference commences at 10:00 a. m. Friday and closes at 12:30 p. m. Saturday with a lunch in the gymnasium. Chancellor Strong will be the toastmaster at the luncheon.
La Touche Hancock, "The Brightest Spot on the New York Sun," as some one who embalmed him in verse said, spoke to the journalism students on that, on "A Free Lance in Journalism." Mr. Hancock is spending a few days visiting at the home of Prof. Merle Thorpe.
The principal speakers from outside the state are: Dean George F. James, of the University of Minnesota; Prof. James Worsham; Professor College; and Professor Heller, of the Washington University at St. Louis.
"BRIESTHT SPOT ON N. Y.
SUN" ADDRESSES STUDENTS
Mr. Hancock has been a free lance in the literary field all his life. He has worked in various parts of the world, India, England, and China, and has thoroughly coveted the United States.
Mr. Hancock is best known by his
earliest rumor of which he recently
published a book.
Hoffman to Address Alumni
Con Hoffman, secretary of the YMCA,
will be at the convention today.
Friday he will be in Emporia
to address the K. U. alumna there.
Send the Daily Kansan home.
ENGINEERS ARRANGE FOR DAY
Hold Mass Meeting in Marvin Hall to Prepare for the Big Meet.
A mass meeting of the Engineers was held in the lecture room of Marvin Hall at 11 o'clock this morning and will provide important contributions for the annual Engineers' day.
After considerable discussion a to a suitable date, a motion was carried providing that April 29 should be named as the big day, unless conflicting dates should oblige a change to April 22. Wednesday was preferred to Friday by a majority of the 175 men present.
Oscar Dingman, president of the Engineers, will announce soon his appointment of men in the various departments to serve the School to supervise the plans.
OHIO STATE DEAN TO ADDRESS CHEMISTS
Prof. William McPherson Wil Talk Saturday Before American Society
"European Chemists and Their Laboratories" is the subject of Prof. urdyat at the 100th session of the William MacPherson's lecture Sat-Kansas City section of the American Chemical Society. Professor MacPherson is head of the department of Dean of the Graduate School at Ohio State University and is one of the leading chemists in the country.
The speaker attended William and Mary College Ohio State University and the University of Chicago. He then taught chemistry in the Toledo Ohio high school and later became head of the department of chemistry at the Ohio State University. He has made several trips to Germany and has a laboratory and the Europaean laboratories and the methadone in them. A few years ago he was made dean of the Graduate School at Ohio State.
Professor MacPherson will be the guest of Prof. F. E. Kester of the physics department while here and a luncheon will be given in the guest's honor at the University Club on Saturday.
The lecture Saturday will be given in the lecture room in Snow Hall at 3:00.
DEBATERS WILL ARGUE
MUNICIPAL HOME RULE
"Resolved: That all Cities in the State of Kansas Having a Population Over 5000 Should be Allowed to Frame Their Own Charter," is the question that has been chosen by the K. U. Debating Society for debate at its meeting Monday night in Fraser Hall.
L. F. Meissner, C. C. Fairchild, and E. F. Cress, will defend the propieties of the team. Herer Howland, and H. E. Niegersdorff will speak for the negative.
BURDICK WILL LECTURE
TO HIGH SCHOOL SENIORS
Dr. W. L. Burdick of the School of Law will deliver high school commencement lectures at the following places: Ellsworth, May 21; Wilson, May 22; Abilene, May 23; Toledo to delivers addresses at Oakley, Leavenworth, and Whitecloud, which will be accepted if dales can be arranged.
K. U. TO DEBATE WITH
TWO ON APRIL EIGHTH
The Oklahoma and Colorado debates will be held on Wednesday. April 8.
The K. U. team, which debates at home, will uphold the affirmative side of the unicameral legislature question against Colorado. The teams for these debates will be chosen today by Prof. H. T. Hill.
PSYCHOLOGY CLASSES VOTE
DOWN HONOR SYSTEM PLAN
When the question of adopting an honor system for conducting examinations was put before the students of Prof. D. C. Rogers' psychology classes this morning they voted not to adopt it. In the 8 o'clock class, the vote was 18 to 12, and in the 9 o'clock class, 20 to 17.
The plan suggested provided for a general committee chosen from the student body to try all cases of dishonesty among the students during examinations.
Kansan board meeting tonight at 7:15.
COUNCIL SAYS KANSAN EDITOR IS NOW OUSTED
'KANSAN-INVOLVED MEMBERS'
Statement
Paper Charged With Swearing Out Warrants—City Attorney Nails Statement
"He it enacted by the Men's Stu-
dium of the University of
Kansas that:
"And be it further enacted: That the temporary vacancy occurring in the said office be at once filled by the Student Council, and said incumbent to hold office until such time as election before provided for shall occur."
"The office of editor-in-chief of the University Daily Kansan be, and the same hereby is made elective by the student body of the University of Kansas, at a general election to be held annually at the time of, and jointly with the election of the members of the Men's Student Council.
The above motion was adopted at the regular meeting of the Men's Student Council last night. Six members voted affirmatively. They were: Holloway, Carson, Evans, Haston, Ragle and Chinney. Although a negative vote was not chosen the following vote was present did not vote 'aye': Coegins, Malcolmson, Maloy, and Madden.
Kennedy, McColoch, and Potter left the meeting before the matter came up. Miller, Kninear, Burke, and Frank were not present. Dodd, the persisting officer, has no vote except in case of a tie.
Holloway Brings Up Resolution
The resolution, which was laid on the table at the last meeting, was called up for discussion by Holloway. He stated that he had talked with City Attorney Mitchell and with Chief of Police Meyers and that they had told him that John the managing editor of the Daily Kansan, hadaway out the warrants for the student of the Student Council for tacking up, or causing to be tacked up, certain dance posters. He also said that the managing editor had made several trips to the Police Court after the warrants were issued, in connection with the matter.
Holloway stated that the proposed change might involve the newspaper in politics but he said it would be more rotten than they are now. He said he would oppose any restriction on candidates, but wished to make any student eligible.
The City Attorney told me, "It was I, and one connected with the complaint, Kansan, who swore out the complaints against the members of the Student Council for updance posters." City Attorney Mitchell said in an authorized interview at noon today. "The men connected with the Kansan learned of my intention when they came to my office at my request. I had made up my mind to arrest the first organization that violated the ordinance before I saw any member of the Kansas board."
Madden Defends Kansan
Madden Defends Kansan
Madden was the second speaker.
He is editor of the Daily Kansan as well as a member of the Council.
well as a member of the Council.
He asked the Council to try to substantiate the statement that any member of the Daily Kansan Board had sworn out warrants for the arrest of the Council, and demanded that the city attorney, the Chief of Police and before the Council so that the facts might be ascertained. "About the general idea of electing the editor, why doesn't this body investigate the previous experience of the University with this plan and also look into similar schemes at other schools?" he continued, tack certainly is personal when such hearings are made about an editor and his pulley."
Statements from four members of the faculty and one member of the Board of Administration who had been quoted in previous council meetings as saying that the Daily Kansan's influence over the state was a detriment to the University, were introduced. In each case it was shown that the speaker had been misquoted.
Almost every member then in- ingled in a general discussion of the entire matter. Carson thought that the present situation "where the Daily Kansan and the Student Council are working at cross purp" *n*
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