TOPEKA KAN.
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOLUME X.
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS, MONDAY AFTERNOON MARCH 31, 1918.
NUMBER 116
"CLEM" FAIRCHILDWOULD BE PRESIDENT
First Candidate For Head of Men's Student Council Announces Today
ELECTION DATE—MAY EIGHTH
1200 Votes Expected—Fifth Annual Selection of High and Mighty Student Lord
The first candidate for president of the Men's Student Council for 1913-14 announced himself today when Charles C. Fairchild, a middle law, entered the field.
"Clcm" is a member of the Varsity track team.
As yet no other nominee has made his appearance, but rumor is connecting the name of Russel Clark with the desire for the position.
Nearly 1200 votes are expected at this year's election, which will be the fifth time a president has been elected.
The election is held annually on the first Thursday after the first Tuesday in May, which falls on May 8 this year.
Former votes were 398 in 1909 president, Dan Nevinger, 721 in 1910 president, Ralph Spots, 692 in 1911 president, Arch McKinnon, and 1067 in 1912.
INSTALL SIGMA KAPPA CHAPTER THIS WEEK
When Tomorrow's Alarm Clock Rings. Out With Those Caps. Freshies!
Installation of the chapter of Sigma Kappa recently granted to Delta Psi, the last local sorority at the University, will be held today, tomorrow, and Wednesday.
Send the Daly Kansan Home.
John Hammond, A. W. Mendenhall, and Thomas Peters spent Sunday in Bonner Springs.
Formal Ceremonies For New Sorority Under Way— High Officers Direct
Tomorrow all freshmen or first-year students in the University will appear in regulation freshman caps,to be worn the rest of the year.
Freshman caps start with the first football game in the fall and last till the Tiger's tail is twisted. Starting again April 1, caps are in order the rest of the year.
Following a dinner at the house this evening, the members will be formally pledged and Tuesday evening they will be initiated. The regular installation of the Xi chapter of the temple will be held Wednesday evening.
The caps are small blue skull pieces, the different schools being distinguished by the color of the button worn: Engineers, yellow; Laws, purple; Medics, green; College, white; Pharmies, red.
Mrs. Hila Helen Small, Mrs. Mary Louise Gay, and Mrs. Grace Small Houlder, grand officers of the organization will be in charge of the ceremonies and will be aided by Miss Ethelyn Miller, of Denver as toastmistress, Miss Florence Cobly, Belle Rector, Helen Powell, Mrs. Anderson, of Topeka, and Mrs. Tanner, of Kansas City.
The Men's Glee Club returned Saturday from Atchison where it gave a concert Friday night. The club was in prime form and received a warm reception.
After the concert the members of the club were given a banquet by former students of the University,atisfactory managers can be made available to club probably with Wichita and Hutchinson before the close of this term.
The following members of Delta Psi will be initiated into Sigma Kappa:
Beulah Addison, Alma Estep, and Irma Goldman of Kansas City; Ruth Lambert, of Hiawatha; Helen Woolsey, Ruth Lillis, Mildred Cole, Abbie Louise Fuller, Vanetta Hosford, Margurite MacClellan, Esther Wilhelm, of Lawrence; Bernita Elgin, Lincoln; Ruth Lichen, leaveworth; Hildreth Walsh, Mary Stanway, Columbus; Celeste Edwards, Sedan; Mabel Anderson, Paola and Genevieve Huffman, Abilene.
Mrs. Ida M. F. Pearse, a member of the Alpha chapter of Sigma Kappa at Colby University, is the Delta Psi house mother and has been largely responsible for bringing the national chapter here.
GLEE CLUB MAKES HIT WITH THE ATCHISON FOLKS
QUILL CONTEST NEEDED THINKS MISS GARDNER
English Instructor Wants Annual Prize Offer For Undergraduates
"The short-story and poem contest inaugurated by the Quill Club should arouse much interest among underclassmen," said Miss Lulu Gardner, of the English department, this morning, in speaking of the effort to "waken sleeping literary generation" started by the Quill Club last week.
"The value of these contests is so self evident," said Miss Gardner, "that I have often wondered why there was not some permanent prize offered here as inducement to short-story writing.
"I distinctly remember the last contest of this nature, held in 1909, open to Freshmen only and a short-story contest alone.
"Forty-eight manuscripts were submitted and the judges were compelled to use fine discrimination to choose the winner.
*Everrett C. Young, a Freshman Engineer, won this contest, one of three Engineers who entered, all of whom received places. No contest in 1910, little interest in a contest in 1911, and no contest last year made me think literary interest was on the wane at the University.
"The contest this year should make a contest every year imperative."
"The minimum limit for the short story is rather high I think, but it should make for increased effort. If the teachers in the English Department will encourage the members of their classes I look for a very sure candidate. I'm a Preeminent at a disadvantage because the Sophomores have had more training, but this should make the content all the more worth while."
The next regular meeting will be held Wednesday afternoon, April 9, at the home of Mrs. H. B. Hungerford, 1037 Kentucky street.
The social meeting of the K. U. Dames for their husbands was held Friday evening at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Moon.
Kenneth G. Biship, a Freshman in the College, was called to Kansas City Friday by the death of his grandfather.
The program consisted of a presentation of Lochinvair by a number of the Dames, music, a reading by Mrs. L. A. Winsor, and two guessing contests.
K. U. DAMES HOLD SOCIAL SESSION FOR HUSBANDS
Lunch was served as follows:
Beef loaf, potato salad, coffee, sandwiches, pineapple sherbet, cake and mints.
OFFERS SILVER CUP FOR CLUB BASEBALL
Allie Carroll Donates Trophy Fourteen Teams Enter League
A meeting of captains of all Inter-Club baseball teams will be held Wednesday afternoon at the gymnasium at 3:30.
"Allie" Carroll, of Smith's News depot, has offered a loving cup to the winner of the inter-club baseball league. The cup will be a permanent possession, and the winners will have the name engraved at the close of each season.
Fourteen teams are now entered in the league. The schedule will be drawn up this week, and actual playing will begin next week.
All teams are requested to turn in the names of players at the Kansan office, or at the office of Coach Frank in the Gym.
CHEMISTS MEET AT K.U.
American Society Holds Sat
urday Session on Campus:
Crowds Hear Program.
The ninety-second meeting of the Kansas City section of the American Chemical Society held last Saturday at the University was a success in every particular, according to Prof. C. C. Young of the chemistry department.
The evening session was held at the Alpha Chi Sima house following a six o'clock dinner furnished by the fraternity. Dr. E. R. Alexander of the Hall and Sophia Anti-Toxic laboratory in Kansas City talked upon, "The Chemistry of Antitoxic Sera." He claims to have eliminated the sickness and serious after effects due to the giving of the serums.
At the afternoon session Prof. Grandville R. R. Jones talked upon "The Engineering and Economic Side of the State." About fifty attended this session.
Genevieve Herrick, a sophomore in the College and Helen Hershberger, a Freshman, spent the week end in Kansas City.
Miss Winifred Birch of Topeka was a guest of Helen Case over the week end.
Outside attendance this year was unusually large, there being twelve or fifteen members from Kansas City, two or three from Topeka, and one from William Jewell.
CANNIE DAVIE FLIPS SILLER AND WINS COG
Braw Professor Patterson
Takes Golf Tournament
From Johnston
The Oread Golf Club opened its season Saturday afternoon with a one-day tournament in which fifteen members of the club took part. Eighteen holes were played.
At a smoker in the evening at the home of the president, C. H. Johnston, the cards were placed in a hat and played out two by two in tournament order. The result was a tie between Prof. C. H. Johnston and Prof. D. L. Patterson. A flip of a coin decided in favor of the latter.
The entries in the tournament were Crawford, Sterling, "Boynton, W. "S. Johnson, Raymond, Lake, C. H. Johnston, Gray, Patterson, Long, Kimnear, Smithmeyer, A. Sterling, Davis and Hurd
About thirty members of the club attended the smoker in the evening. Plans were discussed concerning improvement and improvement for the grounds.
The next tournament will be next Saturday. Two teams, the Reds and the Blues, will be picked from the club and matched against each other. Later in the season it is probable that a schedule of games will be played with the Leavenworth, Topeka, Emporia, and Evanston (Kansas City) country clubs.
WITH MUSIC'S ELECT
Miss Mildred Hazelrigg Attaing
Honor As Organist
In New York.
Miss Mildred Hazelrigg, who was graduated from the University last spring in the Fine Arts, has been chosen organist at the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church of New York for the summer.
Miss Hazelrigl has achieved considerable success this winter in concerts, both as a soloist and as accompanist and her appointment to her new position places her among the best organists of the country.
The Fifth Avenue Church is the church in which Henry Van Dyke, the great preacher-writer was pastor for years.
Haskins Helps Newton
Prof. C. A. Haskins returned yesterday from Newton where he investigated the problem of sewage disposal in that city.
Haskin's work is in much demand throughout the state in sanatative work. He will make several trips in the near future.
MORAL OF FLOOD
DISASTER=DYKES
Haworth Would Have Entire River Course Protected from Overflow
"The floods in Ohio and Indiana should teach the dwellers in the Kansas and Missouri river valleys the utter futility of intermittent dykes," said Prof. Erasmus Haworth, state geologist, and head of the University of Kansas department of geology today.
"Dykes constructed along portions of the streams are absolutely useless," he continued. "If the Kaw were to be made flood-safe the dyking ought to commence 100 or 150 miles west—say at Salina.
"It is useless for Kansas City to seek to prevent floods by constructing local dams and walls, and it's just as useless for any other single district or town to attempt to secure flood safety alone.
"Big floods will come, that no protection on earth could check, but the smaller rises could be provided against. Suppose a cave man should get cold—he wouldn't tie a string around his腿 to keep warm. It's just as foolish to dyke a single section of a stream and let others go."
Speaking of the Ohio floods, Professor Haworth said: "As the storm which caused the damage in Ohio and Indiana traveled eastward from Omaha it became more violent, and a snowy future turned the snow into rain. The gunnison was frozen, and the water all ran into the streams.
"It rained at the same time in all the country draining into the Ohio and Illinois rivers. It's almost impossible to provide protection in a case like this. About the same conditions prevailed in 1896.
"Never in the history of the country has it rained in all the valleys draining into the Mississippi at the same thing. If such a thing should ever happen the result would be difficult to conceive. The southern states would almost be washed into the sea."
Industrial Chemists Back
E. R. Weidlein and Gilbert Bragg of the department of Industrial chemistry of the University returned to Lawrence from Pittsburg, Pa. this morning.
After spending two or three weeks here in the interests of the department they will return to Pittsburg and continue their research work at that place.
Philosophers To Meet
The Philosophical Society will meet Tuesday evening at 7:30 with Prof. Rogers. The subject for discussion is, "Mind and Body." All members are urged to be present.
BASKET TOSSERS WILL PICK LEADER TONIGHT
Sproull and Weaver Likely Candidates—K's Given This Week
BOTH ARE FIRST-YEAR MEN
Seven Men In Line For Varsity Sweaters When 'Athletic Board Decides To Meet
The captain of next year's basketball team will be chosen at a dinner given by the Athletic Association at one of its locations and eight players, will be present.
Basket-ball "K'S" have not yet been awarded to the men, but the Athletic Board will meet some time this week to do so. Seven men are 'n line for letters.
The two most likely candidates for the captaincy are Sproull and Weaver. Both men have made exits in the Varsity first year of Varsity basket-ball.
DOMESTIC SCIENCE DISPLAYS PLANNED
Will Show Cooking, Sewing and'Sweet Domestic Tasks' at Exposition
It will make you homesick to even look at the Domestic Science department's display at the K. U. Exposition May 2-3, according to plans being laid by Miss Edna Hyre, chairman of that department.
Domestic Science will have two booths in the Gym and a display in Fraser Hall, the latter being the main exhibit. There will be displays of sewing, laundry, house sanitation, and all kinds of foods prepared by the culinary artists of the department.
The committee in charge of the plans consists of Edna Hyre, Amaranthia Smith, Latitia Blakey, Anna Johnson and Eleanor Keith.
GLEE CLUBS COMBINE IN SINGLE CONCERT
The University Glee Club combined with the Washburn Glee Club will give a concert in Bowersock the theatre tomorrow night. The best numbers from the programs of each club will be given.
University and Washburn Songsters to Give Joint Program April 1
The Washburn club this year took the California trip taken by Kansas last year, and made a very successful tour.
Y. W. TO ELECT NEW
OFFICERS WEDNESDAY
Election of Y. W. C. A. officers will be held Wednesday afternoon at the check stand in Fraser. The fol- candidate have been nominated;
For president, Florence Fuqua,
Helen Shen, Emily Berger. The
candidate receiving the second high-
grade vote will be elected vice-president.
For secretary, Luella Corey,
Florence Whitcher.
For treasurer, Marie Sealy, Dorothy Ward.
Le Rue Royce of Topeka is a guest at the S. A. E. house.
Miss Lillian Northrope is visiting Elsie Pratt a freshman in the College.
Fred Cowles of Kansas City returned home after a visit at the Phi Delt house.
Wadkins Williams '11 of Kansas City was a guest at the Phi Delt house over the week end.