STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY
TOPEKA KAN.
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOLUME XI.
KANSAN PICKS NEXT
SEMESTER OFFICERS
NUMBER 85.
Madden, Glennsner, Abels and Henderson Land the Positions
NEW BOARD MEMBERS CHOSEN
Sixteen Reporters Added to List— Three are Women—Sam Degen Ill at Pittsburg
Editors for the second semester and sixteen new members of the Daily Kanze Board were elected at the last night in the Daily Kanze office.
John Madden was chosen editor-in-chief, John Glissner, managing editor, and Frank Henderson, high school editor. Ed. Abel was elected business manager. No other changes were made at the meeting last night.
The new board members are: Charles Gibson, Leon Harsh, Frank O'Sullivan, Guy Scriner, Ross Busenberg, Ray Clapper, Luce Hildegarden, Charles Sweet, Charles Sturtevant, John Henry, Lawrence Smith, Joseph Gilbert, Gilbert Clayton, Caleb Lambert, Helen Hayes, Maurine Fairweather.
The Board voted to send a note of sympathy to Sam Degen, a member who is ill with pneumonia and was told to his home in Pittsburgh this week.
The newly elected members are requested to meet in room 110 Fraser at 11 o'clock Friday morning for a short meeting.
WILL FINE SENIORS WHO DELAY ANNUAL
Editor of Jayhawker Will Levy Fifth Cent Tax on Students Who Turn in Pictures Late
A fifty cent fine will be levied or all seniors who do not hand in their pictures or information blanks for the 1914, Jayhawker or make arrangements with the management before February 1. Only sixty pictures received and the information blanks are below the two hundred mark.
KANSAS PEOPLE FAVOR
MUNICIPAL PLAYGROUNDs
Pictures and blanks may be dropped in the Jayhawker box in Fraser Hall or left in the annual room, Green Hall. Jayhawker boxes will be placed in all the buildings and seniors may deposit their pictures, information blanks or undergraduates can order annuals by signing their name to an annual blank and dropping it in the book.
The following towns have already begun the formation of child welfare associations: Holton, Dighton, Great Bend, Fairview, and Newton. Holt-Bend, an organization by Prof. W. McKeever, and an organization has been perfected.
The department of child welfare is finding the people of Kansas enthusiastic over the idea of establishing municipal playgrounds and child welfare associations. Applications are being received every day for organizers to visit the fields and get the work under way.
K. U. DAMES READ PAPERS
ABOUT SALADS AND SUITS
The K. U. Dames met at the home of Mrs. Alonzo Winsor yesterday afternoon. Fifteen members were present. The guests of the afternoon were Mrs. H. L. Paslay and Mrs. Cornforth.
A paper on "Salads" was given by Mrs. B. J. Clawson and one on "Suits" by Mrs. Winsor after which refreshments were served.
PROF. VAN DER VRIES TO
ENTERTAIN MATH, CLUB
A social meeting of the Mathematics Club will be held tomorrow evening at the home of Prof. J. N. Van der Vries at 1644 New Hampshire street. All members are urged to be present.
RUSH FOR VACCINATION
IS SUBSIDING ON HILL
Few students are taking the vaccination now either on the hill or at the office of Dr. Gillispie. Most of those vaccinated yesterday were women, and most have been heard of and the authorities are confident that all danger is past.
PROF. SHULL WRITES
ARTICLE ON OXYGEN
The January Botanical Gazette contains an article by Prof. Charles A Shull, of the botany department, on "The Role of Oxygen in Germination." Several German investigators have insisted that oxygen acts as a stimulus to the protoplasm, and does not have its effect by increasing resorption. This case investigated by Professor Shull is found to be due, either to increased respiration, or to some process very strictly correlated with respiration.
The paper is brief, but makes m. important contribution to our knowledge of the factors in delayed germination at a critical point.
CHANCELLOR TO SING AT Y. M. C. A. JUBILEE
Dr. Frank Strong Will Give a Couple of College Songs Tonight
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS THURSDAY AFTERNOON, JANUARY 29. 1914
Chancellor Frank Strong will sing onight at the Y. M. C. A. Jubilee.
"It will take a mighty bad cold to interfere with what singing I will do tonight," said Chancellor Strong, who had has a cold, "I am going to sing only a couple of college songs for the boys.
"Yes, I sang for a couple of years on the Yale Eagle Club and for several years in one of the large church choirs in New Haven. In fact, I practically made my college expenses by singing. At one concert the receipts were $1200 which netted about $55 for each man."
The rest of the program will include a reading by Clement Reed, a boxing match between Fred Soper and Lawrence Morris and Lawrence Morris in a monologue.
The big feature of the evening is the refreshments. The circus begins at 8 o'clock sharp. Admission is ten cents.
ANNOUNCES CAST OF ANNUAL SENIOR PLAY
Etta Smith, Manager, Giver Names of Students to Take Farce Roles
The cast of the senior play, "Count No-Account" was given out this morning by Etta Smith, manager of the play.
The following are the actors in the order of their appearance:
Co-eds at K. College—Jessie Reed, Larry Buchanan, Rhea Wilson, Rich Larchman
Reggie Walters, freshie Carl Painter.
Mrs. Muldoon, matron at girl's dormitory -Maude Lourey.
Rev. Dr. McNish, college chaplain William Schwinn.
Billy Rutford, track man—Frank Miller.
"Speed Fast" Williams—Floyd Fischer
Rose Walters, clinging vine-
Lucille Smith.
Students at K College-Guy Hall, Eugene Davis, Ed. Boddington, John Hamilton, Frank Henderson and The Sandamingo Quartet.
Hedgewick Shomes, village inn detective-Elmer Clark.
Might--Refuse Woosky!
Joshua Walters of N. D.—George Morgue
Jessie Bright—Helen Woolsey.
Tompkins, son of village livery man—Chester Cassingham.
Archibald Kavanaugh of Diltherling
England; Liam Bracey of Kinnear
England; Strelletland
Washington Jeffersonian Lee—Ray Eldridge.
Y. W. C. A. WILL NOT MEET
TILL AFTER QUIZ WEEK
Maidee of Village inn keeper—Eva Bechtel
Willie Gay Boy—Albert Teed
Mable Mills—Ruth Harvey
Music and lyrics by Faye Blair,
Robert Barns, and Carl Jones.
There will be no Y. W. C. A. meetings next week on account of quizzes. "Everyone will be so busy studying," said Miss Carroll this morning, "That we have decided to let up on all meetings."
Judge Ruppenthal Visits Son
Judge J. C. Ruppenthal, '95, of the twenty-third judicial district, of Russel, Kansas made a short visit to his son H. F. Ruppenthal, a freshman in the School of Engineering, yesterday afternoon.
A CHALLENGE TO YOUTH
Lo, I will shape you a song for only the strong to sing,
And swift are its words and sure as the hammered sword of a king,
And the grip of my hand is stern as I turn to its fashioning.
Bp Willard A., Wattles, A. B., '08
Written for Kansas Dag, 1914, expressly for Deily Kansan
You who are young and clean and sweetened by the sun,
Who have followed the binder afield till the blinding day was done
And the beaten sheaves of gold were garnered every one,
Who have slept 'neath the open sky and pillowed a dusty nea0 On the shiny saddle-leather, nor wished for a better bed. For you is the music moulded, for you is the anvil red.
I sing you the song of Kansas, of reaper, brand, and spade,
The sword of youth more splendid than Alexander's blade,
The flag of faith transcendant in a mighty last Crusade.
For I have seen the cities that loom over eastern seas,
And trodden the purple vintage of ancient revelries,
Where the simpering grin of Bacchus is the mask of miseries.
The midnight reeled with laughter of roiting women and men, Sleek waiters tiptoed after and brimmed the glasses again, Till the air was a blare of ragtime and red with lust and pain.
For this is the brood of the cities, elegant, debonair,
Men with the scars of license and women with shoulders bare—
But I have swung in the saddle and swallowed the prairie air.
The tang of the sun-dried grasses, the spangled cup of the sky,
The yelp of a hundred devils that shriek in the coyote's cry,
And forty miles of freedom and the moon to canter by.
For I have walked the corn-rows that are so cool and green,
And I have found the nesting dove under the burdock screen.
And many other wondrous things that no one else has seen.
Oh, none beside the farmer boy who walks the rows of corp,
When blowing winds are ministers that sound a silver horn,
And dreams bud like the prairie rose upon a fairy thorn.
But now I sound to battle and brazen the notes are blown.
You whom the sun has strengthened, follow!—the flag is flown!
And if you will not follow, I'll spur to the charge alone.
Lo, this is the song I shape you, a song for the strong and fleet,
A sword for the arms that wrestle with slippery shocks of wheat,
A flag of the dreams of Kansas by wide winds winnowed sweet.
A sword for the youth of Kansas, a song for their lips to sing.
The reckless sword of manhood, blue steel from the furnacing,
Oh, who will dare to wear it, still fresh from its fashioning?
STENOGRAPHIC BUREAU
DOES A LOT OF WORK
The Stenographic Bureau, which is now under the wing of the registrar, has been a very successful enterprise.
"You would be surprised," said Registrar George O. Foster, "at the amount of work which we do. Of course, the department does not bring all the necessary and all work is charged at the actual cost."
The bureau is equipped with two mimeographs and one multigraph. The work is done by the stenographers in the office and by students.
FRENCH PROFESSOR TO
LECTURE AT UNIVERSITY
M. Andre Bellossi, a professor of
physics at the University
at 4:20 PM, lectures in
M. Bellessort comes here under the auspices of the Cercle Francaise. He is the first Frenchman that ever lectured at the University.
M. Bellessert is now on a grand tour of America delivering lectures on "The France and the Paris That See" at The Seat" at all the leading universities.
Prof. W. H. Johnson, high school visitor, returned Wednesday from Muncock where he addressed a museum where the Consolidation of Rural Schools."
The people in and near the town of Muscotah are strongly in favor of consolidating the town district with five surrounding districts and Professor Johnson told them of the many advantages of consolidation.
Professor Johnson will go to Wakefield Friday to visit the school and to deliver an address at a teachers' meeting.
The chorus choir of the First Presbyterian church under the direction of Prof. C. A. Dykstra will repeat the Cantata Bethlehem Sunday evening at 7:45. A number of people who heard the cantata during the holidays requested that it be repeated. University students are invited.
PRESBYTERIAN CHOIR
TO REPEAT CANTATA
URGES CONSOLIDATION OF THE RURAL SCHOOLS
EVEN CARTOONISTS WORK THESE DAYS
The Acacia fraternity pledged
King James II, of Blue Mound,
Wednesday night.
ANATOMY PROFESSOR HAS
RESEARCH MACHINE MADE
Prof. George F. Coghill, of the anatomy department, is having a machine constructed for the artificial stimulation of the embryo. The effects of an electrical stimulus, touch, lights and shadows will be tabulated. To make the results more accurate, the embryos will be placed in the same embryological conditions but not stimulated, and a comparison made.
Charles W. White, instrument maker in Fowler Shops, is working the details and making the machine. If this experiment is successful several other machines will be constructed along the same line.
K. U. ORCHESTRA WILL GIVE ANNUAL CONCERT
Dean Skilton's MusicalOrganization to Offer Program in Fraser Tonight
Students of the University will have a chance tonight to hear both classical and popular music from the orchestra in its eleventh season winter concert.
Dean C. S. Skilton, director of the orchestra, said that many students had complained so much of entirely new music that popular music had been added.
A harp will be used for the first time in the program tonight. Miss Mamie Gorsuch of Lawrence will play the harp.
A selection from the operetta, "Sweethearts," introducing eleven popular airs and a solo by Professor Farrell of the School of Fine Arts are the features of a program containing eleven numbers.
Admission is 25 cents. Student tickets admit.
M'CLAUGHRY UNABLE TO SPEAK IN CHAPEL
Death of Wife Prevents Former Federal Warden Addressing Students
There will be no chapel services tomorrow. The chapel committee was unable to obtain a speaker to take the course. ClauveryClughay and decided to distance with the Friday assembly.
Mrs. Robert W. McClaughrey, wife of the former warden of the federal prison, died this morning at Leavenworth. Major McClaughrey was to make the Friday talk to the students in chapel.
Another speaker had not been obtained by the committee this afternoon.
RIFLE CLUB SHOOTS
AGAINST WISCONSIN
"We do not stand any show with a score like that," said Capt. Frank E. Jones, this morning. "Most of the schools are shooting above 930 and we will have to whip up. We won from Clemson College by defending against UCLA University and the University of Vermont. I see improvement in the men, however, and am hoping for a much higher score next time."
The scores of the University of Kansas Rife Club and the University of Wisconsin Rife Club are being compared in Washington today. The club here had its shoot last Saturday and the score was 888, the three scores being made by A. Sterling, H. Haworth, and W. Meredith.
J. D. BOWERSOCK TO START
A STUDENT BIBLE CLASS
A class for University men will be organized at the Congregational church Sunday morning by J. D. Bowersock. The class will discuss secular subjects of a practical nature. Some of the young men interested in the class are: H. Haworth, O. A. Dingman, Carl O. Dunbar, Arthur W. Duston, and Paul Haworth.
Send the Daily Kansan home.
The Mathematics Club will have
it time from 10:45 a.m. to 10:40 p.m.
Saturday morning at 10:40 p.m.
STUDENTS ALL FAVOR STARTING UNION NOW
Get-Together Plan Seems to Have Universal Support of Under Graduates
"A PLACE TO CALL OUR OWN"
Engineers and Laws, Freshmen and Seniors, Committeeemen and Class Presidents Together
The Union committee received information this afternoon from the owner of the house at 1200 Tennessee which practically assures the location of the Student Union at that place.
Several students want the men to keep a permanent building in mind—one large enough to accommodate at least 2000 members, but they all have rooms of their own on the Council, to rent a house and start something, is a good one.
The students seem to be behind the temporary Union plans of the Student Council to a man. Of more than a dozen prominent students interviewed this morning, not one opposed the scheme, and almost all were enthusiastic for a get-together place as soon as possible.
Some of the opinions expressed this morning follow:
C. O. Buckles, president of the senior law class: "I am of the opinion that the most good to be derived from the Student Union would come as a result of closer bonds between students and faculty and the various schools would come together on a common ground and a closer fellowship would result."
Russell Gear, president of the junior class: "The proposed Student Union would further democracy among the student body because each man would have an equal interest in the Union."
Herbert Flint, editor of the Daily Kansan: "If the Board of Regents could be persuaded to deed the Union a site, somewhere on the campus, then there would be some tangible benefits to the institution should be worked for."
Oscar Dingman, president of the engineers: "All of the engineers that I have talked to are strong in leadership and we will be engineers will be behind the movement."
Crummy Williamsiam, chairman of the social committee of the junior class: "I am all for the plan for $g Student Union. It will provide a place for the smaller affairs, such as a classroom like and will give a place where men may go any time of the day and feel at home."
J. W. Dyche, chairman of the sophomore social committee: "The best movement started by the student council this year. A place where student organizations and committees can meet is absolute necessary. The Student Union would give the class officers an opportunity to keep in touch with the members of the different classes."
Russell Clark, editor of the Jay-hawker. "I see no reason why the University of Kansas should not have a Student Union. I think the university should be made to help along the movement."
John E. Detwiler, captain of the 1914 football squad: "The movement for a Student Union is a good one. It has been successful in other unitities and should succeed here. The sooner we get a Union the better."
Rodger Coolidge, captain of the 1914 baseball team: "I am for a Student Union and am heartily in favor of re-enforcement. The proposition is all right."
TUDENTS PLAY SAFE
BY 'PRE' EXAM FEED
Prof. A. J. B. Boynton's class in "Transportation" met last night for a five course dinner at The Oread Tea Room. Most of the men present are seniors and wished to show their appreciation of the work Producers do in banqueting. Badger, Boddington, Cook, Granger, Hansen, Householder, McAllester, Rosewurm, Weaver, Wiley, and Wise.
Weather
Weather forecast: Fair tonight and tomorrow. Colder.
Temperature readings:
7 p. m. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
9 a. m. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
2 p. m. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23½