UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOLUME XI.
COUNCIL WOULD BOND EVERY PANTATORIUM
Asks Money Guarantee From Firms Doing Student Business
COMMITTEE IS NOW AT WORK
Miller, Kinnear, and Hilton Are Ir Charge of "Money Back If—" Arrangements
NUMBER 69
"Bond the Pantatorium" is the slogan of the Men's Student Council, according to action taken at the meeting in Prazer Hall last night.
Frank Miller, Larry Kinnear, ame Kirk Hilton were appointed to visit the pantatorium owners and arrange a plan whereby students and reliable pantatorium owners may be protected from irresponsibles who start a cleaning and pressing business for a few months only long before such a branch of tickets. Their establishments have gone out of business already this year, leaving hundreds of students "holding the sack."
The Student Council plans to have the firms put up a bond sufficient to guarantee ticket holders that the contract will be fulfilled or their money refunded. Lists of the firms which accept the plan will be published in order that the student body may know which ones are willing to put up good money as a guarantee that the business is reliable.
"It seems to me that when two firms 'elope' with several hundred dollars in one year, and when the city and county officials seem powerless to give the students any satisfaction, it is high time that some organization try to get them involved," said President Dodd, of the Council, this morning. "I surely hope that all concerned will find the proposed plan agreeable."
BOARD NAMES TWO NEW
PROFESSORS IN MEDICINE
Several pantatitorium firms are said to be willing to furnish bonds.
A conference with Dr. N. D. Colwell, who inspected the Medical School, four appointments, and the grant of a leave of absence was the work accomplished by the Board of Administration yesterday. The result of Dr. N. D. Colwell's meeting with the Board will not be known until his report is made.
BLACKMAR WANTS ANSWERS
TO FRAT QUESTIONNAIRES
The Board appointed Dr. E. J. Curran professor of ophthalmology at Rosedale; Dr. C. C. Conover was appointed associate professor of clinical medicine, and two new positions of stenographers were created for the extension department whose members must be force. Misses Bess Lamb and Madeline Carter were appointed stenographers.
Leave of absence for three months was granted to Prof. C. Boyd, Young, director of the water analysis lab and responsible for purpose of visiting eastern laboratories.
Dean F. W. Blackmar of the Graduate School is urging the students to fill out the fraternity questionnaire, distributed by the Graduate School, and to return them as soon as possible. A few have already been sent in.
"A scientific report cannot be made out unless all the students attend to this," said Dean Blackmar this afternoon. "The department hopes that every blank will be filled out and sent in. The investigation is entirely impartial, however. It is being done for the good of the school."
These questionnaire have not been sent to the alumni yet.
HEADS CONFERENCE OF
EDUCATION TEACHERS
Dean Arvin Olin, of the School of Education, was elected chairman of the conference of College of Education Teachers in the Middle West at a recent meeting in Omaha, Neb. The conference embraces ten states and has an enrollment of about fifty men.
The next meeting of the conference will be held in Kansas City, the latter part of December. The university hosts home, and Nebraska and several colleges in these states will be represented at this conference.
Leo Madlem Visits
Leo Madlem, a former student of the University visited on the campus yesterday morning. Mr. Madlem is now city engineer for Girard, Kans.
VIC MURDOCK WILL TALK
IN BOWERSOCK TONIGHT
Hon. Victor Murdock, congressman from the eighth Kansas District, will speak in the Bowersock theater tonight at 7:30.
A Murdock club, having as its object the boosting of Murdock for U. S. senator from Kansas, will be organized.
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS WEDNESDAY, AFTERNOON, JANUARY 7, 1914
Mr. Murdock delivered the opening address at the University for the school year of 1913-14, and consequently many of the students are present with him. He has been congressman from the eighth district since 1903.
GREEKS MUST PAY PERSONAL TAXES TOO
Fraternities and Sororities Included on County Assessment Rolls
Warning has gone forth from the office of C. E. Pearcy, treasurer of Douglas county, that members of fraternities and sororites must pay personal taxes on the furnishings of their chapter houses. Two organizations have already paid, although under protest.
If the taxes are not paid immediately the regular course for the collection of delinquent taxes will be employed. If the Sheriff acts the fraternities will have to pay the fees and cost of collection in addition to the tax.
Asked whether or not the fraternities were legally exempted from personal tax, Mr. Pearcy said: "I do not think so. It has simply been the custom not to list their belongings." Real property of the fraternities
"The taxes must be paid," said Mr. Pearcy this morning, "No other course is open to me than to compel payment. The property is listed on the tax rolls, and the money must come in.
"There is no discrimination against fraternity members. The property of other students has been assessed where ever possible. I have issued warning in an attempt to avoid the necessity of litigation."
Real property of the fraternities is also assessed, and the same course is offered.
A case is now pending in the district court brought by the Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority, contesting a complaint against seniors to levy taxes upon its property. This case will test the law which has exempted these organizations from taxation since 1965 but as affecting the present action of these seniors will have to consideration until the decision is rendered by Judge Smart.
MISS TOPPING TALKS ON MISSIONS TO Y.W
Teacher of Japanese Says American Women Could Learn Much From Celestial Sisters
"The basis of cosmopolitan friendship is the understanding of foreign people and a nearness to Christ," said Miss Helen Topping at the Y. Munn School in St. Louis noon. Miss Topping was born in Japan, has taught in a kindergarten in Japan and is now working with the Japanese girls in California. She is returning to California from the United States where an exhibition held last week at Kansas City.
Eugent F. Davis of Kansas City, Mo., who is a senior in the College, will be unable to return for some time because of sickness.
"The whole world is at our doors today and the present problem is that of mingling with these people with a loving sympathetic feeling in order to win them to Christ," she declared. "The beautiful, quiet, retiring personality of the Japanese always possesses modesty, reverence, courage and patriotism should be a lesson to the women of America.
Kansan Board meeting in the office immediately after the first basketball game tonight.
Eugene Davis Ill
K. U. Debating Society will meet Friday night of this week instead of Thursday.
Kansan Board Meeting
DO K.U. GIRLS FAVOR MID-WEEK DATES?
Petitions Ask W. S. G. A. for General Vote on Question
APPEARED ON HILL TODAY
Petitions Well Filled by Noon—Mis Lourey Says Council Will Consider Them Tomorrow
The mid-week date rule, which was supposed to be safety buried yesterday was resurrected today and is one of the live questions on Mt. Oread.
A petition was circulated today among the women students of the University asking for a "yes" or "no" vote in regard to the mid-week date question and it received the required number of names to be considered by the W. S. G. A. within an hour after they were presented. No effort was made to get an expression of opinion on the question, but those who were asked said, said emphatically they favored some decision as the rule when it now stood was unfair in that it could be only partially enforced.
Miss Maude Lourey, president of the association today announced that the question would be brought up at a meeting tomorrow.
The following is the resolution "Inasmuch as Section 3 Article I of the constitution of the Women's Student Government Association, regarding week-night dates," has through repeated violations and in adequate means of enforcement be come practically inoperative and merely a standing rule, we have given permission to the University of Kansas petition the Council of the W. S. G. A. to submit the clause in question to a 'yes' and 'no' vote of all women students of the University of Kansas, by Australian ballot. And in case the rule be approved by a two-thirds majority it shall by authority of this vote become effective and the Council of the W. S. G. A. shall have full power to make and carry such rule into effect; otherwise the negative vote will remove said rule from the Constitution of the W. S. G. A. and such rules, designated in Section 3 Article IV, as 'Customs' shall be void."
BIG COLLEGES LIKE K.U. MAN'S REPORT
Prof. E. M. Honkin's Work on Eng lish Teaching Brings Large Orders From East and West
Send The Daily Kansan Home.
Prof. C, C. Young of the water survey department will leave the latter part of this month on a three months' vacation during which he will visit all of the largest laboratories in the east.
During the vacation the department of journalism press has printed for Prof. E. M. Hopkins 5,000 copies of a complete report of his visit to China and English Teaching largely to meet advance orders. Of these one thousand and copies were ordered from the state of Washington and two thousands and from Chicago. The total number of printed is now approaching 30,000.
Professor Young will take some work at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University, where she war survey, sewage disposal, and sanitation.
The National Council of Teachers of English has appointed a publicity committee with a representative in every state to aid in the distribution of this and other Council reports, and has adopted resolutions requesting action by the North Central Association and all other accrediting bodies in accordance with the facts established.
WILL INSPECT WATER
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LABORATORIES IN EAST
Professor Hopkins' committee has been enlarged from six to fifteen by the Council, and is now proceeding with the authority of the Bureau of Education to make an analogous but more extended study of the conditions, methods, and results of the teaching of English in elementary schools. This new work has been in progress for a year, and will require at least two or three years for its completion.
Journalism Department Wil Offer Short Course for Kansas Publishers
EDITORS TO GATHER ON OREAD IN MAY
NATIONAL CONFERENCE ALSO
Second Meeting of Country's Biggest Journalism Will Be In Session at Same Time
The executive committee of the State Editorial Association in session at the state house yesterday afternoon approved the plan of meeting at the University for a four-day course in journalism for short course work in journalism.
A National Journalism Conference will be held at the University at the same time, at which prominent state and national editors will lead discussions on various newspaper problems.
The sessions at the University will include regular class-work from 8-12 o'clock each day on such subjects as "Cost-Finding and Efficiency," "Advertising and Circulation," "News-Gathering" and "Ethical Problems." The afternoons will be used by visiting newspaper men, and the evenings to one principal address and round-table discussions.
Great Editors to Attend
The department of journalism has been in correspondence with twenty or twenty-five great American editors. Some have already accepted, others are waiting to learn the exact date which was settled yesterday, and some are undecided. Among those who may be expected to appear are, James Watson, Richard Pulpitz, james Mulin Lee, Henry King, James Keeley, John T. McCutcheon, Melville E. Stone, Roy W. Howard, and Will Irwin.
"This conference is important in two ways," said Prof. Merle Thorpe in class this morning. "It is the first time a University has offered a short course to a state's editors, to say nothing of its being the first time a state's editors have accepted such aid. In the second place the conference will best newspaper men in the country will meet and discuss the questions affecting the press which are on everyone's tongue. Is the press free? Should it be regulated as a public utility? Do the 690 million spent in advertising last year affect the price of living?"
To Discuss Newspaper Legislation
"There are today four bills before Congress looking to the restriction of the press; one to make the Assoc. for commerce commission, another to forbid the papers of the District of Columbia the publishing of the details of crime. Literally every month the libel laws of the country are construed more and more in favor of the plaintiff; one state supreme court has held within the last decade that it is honored as 'privileged publication' is no longer privileged.
"It itmes that the newspapers after teaching the people to regulate everything else on earth, are in a fair way to be regulated next. Such a conference will do much to clear up the confusion of steps can be taken to propose the legislation. It would be better to have the regulation done by friends."
Professor Blackmar Will Direct Newest Extension Work of the University
MAKE SOCIAL SURVEY FOR KANSAS TOWNS
Social surveys of the smaller Kansas towns will be undertaken in the near future by the University of Kansas. The work is under the direction of David Blackman and will be a part of the extension work of the University.
Recently citizens of Belleville wrote the Russell Sage Foundation in regard to a social survey of their town, and the inquiry was referred to the University. A survey of the will be made, the State Board of Health aliding in the survey of health and sanitary conditions.
The work of Prof. E. W. Burges, who made a study of playground conditions in Topeka, has been high-tech in the creation of charge of the Russell Sage Foundation.
The Girls' Glee Club will sing in chapel Friday morning (Jan. 9th).
HAWK DRAMATIC CLUB
TO SELECT A COMEDY
The Hawk Dramatic Club will choose a play at a meeting tonight in Room 6, Green Hall. The play will be a farce comedy and will be presented February in matinee and night performances.
"Manuscripts will be given out the latter part of the week and the cast will be picked next week," said Russell Clark, manager today. "Rehearsals will begin as soon as the cast is ready." The comedy similar to 'Billy,' the play which was given by the Thespians in 1911.
SENIORS NEED NOT
PAY EXTRA $1.50
All Jayhawker Manager Wants Is a Picture for the Cut
Manager Guy Von Schrilz of the 1914 Annual is afraid that the Jayhawker story which appeared in the Daily Kansas last night gave some seniors the erroneous idea that they are to be charged $1.50 more than they agreed to, and as several had already spoken to him about it, he gave out the following statement this morning:
"The six-dollar plan agreed to by the senior class will cover all expenses of putting the senior's picture in the Annual, besides giving all seniors that pay, a copy of the Annual. The dollar and a half fee mentioned in the Kansan last month is merely the amount she takes photography for, taking the picture, if only one picture is made besides the glossy print. This fee is an obvious one, as the photographer must receive some remuneration for the time he puts in taking the picture. One Lawrence photographer has offered the glossy print free of charge if the senior orders half a dozen or more of the pictures for personal use. I do not want the seniors to get the idea that there will be any extra charge at all for the Annual. The junior wants it, a photograph so we can have the cut made. Seniors who have not yet received notes to sign up should see the editor of their school, Mr. Clark or myself and said note will be provided them." Russell H. Clark, editor, will be in the Jayhawker office, Room 6, Green Hall, every Monday, Wednesday and Thursday from 2:30 until 4:30. All members of the Annual Board are requested to call at the Jayhawker office sometime between the hours of 2:30 and 5 o'clock
SENIOR SOCIETY TO HELP K.U. ATHLETICS
Resolutions urging all students to get together and push University athletes by turning out for the opening basketball games were unanimously adopted by Skull an K, senior society, at its meeting last night at the Sig Alph house. The resolution is as follows:
Skull and K Pledges Itself to Make Coming Basketball Season a Success
"In view of the unrest caused by the recent athletic agitation, the senior society of Skull and K hereby pledges itself to work to make the coming athletic season a success. It further urges all students of the University to fortify, record, and differ from definition, show that they are back of Manager Hamilton and University athletics by turning out in full force for the opening basketball games tonight and tomorrow."
Prof. H. T. Hill, head of the public speaking department, was initiate into honorary membership last night and announcement made of the election of W. Y. Morgan, of Hutchirson, to honorary membership.
Discuss Lawrence Water
Discuss Lawrence Water Dean S. J. Crumbine met with the officials of the Lawrence water company yesterday morning to talk over the problem of providing a supply of water to the city which would comply with the conditions imposed by the state.
The Weather
Temperature readings:
Weather forecast: Generally fair tonight and tomorrow.
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BASKETBALL SEASON TO OPEN UP TONIGHT
K. U. Schedule Will Start With a Game Against Ames Aggies
TEAM TRAINED FOR BATTLE
With the completion of a snappy workout last night against the freshmen, the 1914 IJayskater basketball five closed its days of practice for the big Conference games, and now everything is set for the big battle with the Ames Aggies in the Gym at 7:15 this evening.
Sproull's Men Will Show the Iowans a Fast Game But Are Not Overconfident
The team looks good. Although neither the captain nor the coach are making any rash Conference Championship claims, nevertheless the team is on a path to victory for the man who will trot out on the floor tonight, and there are some eleven of them, in the pink of condition and ready to play the game of his life. In case old K. U. gets hard up and needs some substitutes, there are two players A No. 1 players on the sidelines, ready to be pushed to the rescue.
Six K Men to Play
Lefty Sproull will lead his men out on the field ready for the big game at 7 o'clock sharp. Following the helmy play will come, in close succession Charley Greenlees, Stuff McMullen, Warner, Van Dine Vries, and Leffty Smith, all K men and sterling athletes. Behind this bunch of sure winners will parade Weillie Neal, Ray Folks, Bill Brown, Slats Cole, and Enie Baldwin, ready to be on hand in case anything should turn up. The College team will not be a previously planned. Brown, Baldwin, Weildin, and Cole, however, are among the stars of that aggregation.
Nothing more, or rather nothing at all, has been heard from Bill Hubbard and his Ames Aggies. That they'll show a good team, and fight a dandy battle against the Jayhawkers, is certain.
Floor Looks Fit
The Gym floor is in good condition for the staging of the coming contest. The big crowd that turned out Monday afternoon to hear Secretary Bryan speak did little to impair the condition of the floor, and since the last Gym dance was held before the Christmas holidays, the arena looks ready for the massive fray. Dave Miller and his proud cohorts have been fixing it up for the big event. Dave says its all right.
That curtain-raiser, or rather "chaser," which was promised will be held without fall, and Butch Stueve, Bill Weidlein, Lloyd Bishop, Horton vort on the slippery boards immediately after the smoke of the first battle has cleared. The exact line-up of the teams is not known. They don't know it themselves yet. But anyway there'll be plenty of fight bucks, and the bigger one tendance the more pep will be displayed.
The big game is called at 7:15 sharp, and everyone should make a special effort to be in his seat by seven bells at the latest.
CHANGE LOCATION OF FRASER HALL OFFICES
The work of moving offices in Fraser Hall was only partly completed during the holidays. Prof. D. C. Croissant, head of the extension department, has moved into his new quarters at the north end of the hall in the room formerly occupied by Prof. W. H. Johnson.
The old check stand is now labeled "High School Visitor." The stenographic bureau will be in the registrar's office which has taken back its old quarters in Room 111 to use for registration work.
Prof. A. T. Walker is now in an office which was taken from Room 161.
K. U. GRADUATE WANTS A PLACE IN CONGRESS
Robert W. Wells, a graduate of the law school, class of '97, formerly of Coffeyville, Kans., now of Hyattsville, Maryland, is a candidate for the Democratic nomination of concession from the third Maryland district.
Wells is a member of a prominent Washington law firm and is one of the leaders of Democratic politics in Maryland. While at K. U., Bobby Wells, as he was then called, read law in J. Q. A. Norton's office.