TOPEKA KAN
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOLUME X.
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS, THURSDAY AFTERNOON, MARCH 27, 1913.
NUMBER 114.
HE'D GOVERN STATE SANS LEGISLATURE
Fred Trigg to Tell Students about Commission Government for Kansas
IF'S  GOV.  HODGES'  PLAN
Suggested in Special Message, It Attracts National Attention—Journalists to Hear Public Talk
How the state of Kansas would look with its legislature removed and a governing commission applied will be described for University students and faculty at chapel tomorrow morning by Fred Trigg, one of the editors of the Kansas City Star. Mr. Trigg's subject will be "A State Commission Form of Government for Kansas."
This plan for remodeling the state government which was outlined by Gov. George Hodges in a special message to the legislature, has attracted national attention. Papers in practically every large city in the United States have commented on the proposal.
Mr. Trigg is recognized throughout the Middle West as a specialist in modern municipal and state government, and has delivered a series of addresses on the subject in many Kansas cities.
Following the chapel exercises,
Mr. Trigg will speak before students in the department of journalism in room 110, Fraser. Students and faculty are invited to attend.
Financial Difficulties of Sec ond Year Men Are Sad, Says Manager
Too many fellows are making dates for the Sophomore Hop without paying for their tickets, according to Vitorc LaMere, chairman of the finance committee.
SOPHS GOING TO HOP ON CREDIT, THE LATEST
"My situation is becoming embarassing to say the least," said Rusty Russell, manager of the Hop, today. "I've contracted for over six hundred dollars worth of stuff and over 150 of the 310 tickets are out and not a cent in yet."
"Plans for the Hop are going fine but we haven't collected enough coin yet to pay for the printing of the tickets," he said this morning. "The committees have contracted for several hundred dollars worth of stuff and not a cent has come in so far to pay for it."
The Hop is to include, besides the production of William Dean Howell's farce, "The Elevator," a four-course feed to be served at twelve o'clock and a program of twenty-four dances by Ray Hall's eight-piece orchestra from teka.
Fred Trigg, of the Kansas City Star, will address the citizens of Lawrence tonight at the high school on the "Commission Form of Government." Mr. Trigg is recognized as one of the leading authorities on this subject in the Middle West. All students and faculty members are invited.
Math Gun Solves Problem
HELL TELL LAWRENCE OF
COMMISSION GOVERNMENT
In a recent number of the "School of Science and Mathematics," a periodical containing each month some problem, the solution of which is published in the next issue, a prize winning solution by Harry McMillan, a student in the College was published.
Quiz in Rural Sociology
Dean Blackmar will attend a meeting of the state board of health in Topeka tomorrow. His 8 o'clock class in Sociology will meet as usual, but a "written exercise" is to be given to the students in Rural Sociology.
Kansas will be represented on the diamond this year by a squad of seasoned players. Included in the listing of the 1912 team are nine men who reported today for spring practice on McCook: (From left to right, top row). Smith, Marsh, Dinsmore, Moore, Welch, Ammons, McCarty, White. (Second row.) Holliday, Campbell, Coach Sherwin, Hicks, Buzick, Stahl, Siebert. (Bottom row.) Krebbiel, Ebother, Charlesworth, Deichman, Orden, Walker.
NINE VETERANS TURN OUT FOR K. U. BASEBALL TEAM
OUTDOOR WORK TODAY IF THE WEATHER--
Both Track and Baseball Mer Anxious To Leave Winter Quarters
ter Quarters
Outdoor practice in both track and baseball will start this afternoon if it is warm and dry enough, according to Captain Patterson and Coach Frank.
McCook track is in good shape for sprint work, but the cold weather is rather unpleasant, according to Patterson.
Coach Frank is hoping and praying by turns for warm weather, if he is to have his team in shape to meet William Jewell, April 4.
Zurcher is at present out for the broad jump, and more are wanted. Hurst, who does the broad jump as well as the pole vault, will probably be unable to compete any more this year, according to his physician.
It has developed that Hurst went into the indoor meet against Missouri with a broken ankle bone, and took second place on his nerve.
Gribble is out for the quarter now that his torn ligaments are in good shape. Hilton, Crane, and Greenlees are working out daily on the sprints. Schwab will be out for the 100 and 200 as soon as he sees the eligibility committee.
"There are a lot of fellows in school this year who used to run in high school but won't come out here," said "Pat" Patterson today. "If these fellows would come out and line up things would look better at once. Inter-class should bring out a lot of the men."
MATH GUNS TO SHOW PROBABILITY CURVE
"Doc" Van der Vries to Bafle Expositioners With New Puzzle
The probability curve, in mathematics, is a curved line which represents graphically the likelihood of the occurrence of any event in the doctrine of chance, or the ratio of the number of favorable chances to the whole number of chances, favorable or unfavorable.
A unique and ingenious contrivance for showing what is meant by the 'probability curve', and for proving its truth, has been devised by Prof. J. N. Van der Vries, of the mathematics department, and construed by Amos D. Johnson, a senior professor, for exhibition at the Exposition.
According to Prof. Van der Vries the practical applications of the probability curve are unlimited.
The device is designed to provi the probability curve by actual ex periment. It consists of a glass covered case, in which some small steel balls are enclosed in a pocket. When released these balls fall through a number of pegs into slots, and then the ball drops, new that a line drawn across the tops of the balls would represent the curve.
CHEMICAL SOCIETY TO PLANS FOR ATHLETIC RIVALRY IN INTER- HOLD 92ND MEETING EXHIBITS ARE READY CLASS MEET STRO
Kansas City Section of American Organization at University Saturday
The ninety-second regular meeting of the Kansas City section of the American Chemical Society will be held in the Chemistry building, Saturday. March 29th.
At 4 p. m. Grandeville R. Jones will speak on "The Engineering and Economic Side of Water Softening" Professor Jones is head of the sanitary engineering department of the University.
Dr. E. R. Alexander speaks on "The Chemistry of Antitoxic Sera" at 7:30 at the Alpha Chi Sigma house. Dr. Alexander has come from the New York City board of health to establish a biological product laboratory. He is making all kinds of vaccines, antitoxines, and bacterins and any biological product a physician may desire.
L. S. Bushnell, chief chemist of the Armour Packing Co., W. B. Smith, chemist for the Bureau of Animal Industry, and many other chemists in soap works and packing from Kansas City will attend.
These meetings are open to the public. The out-of-town members will be entertained at dinner by the Alpha Chi Sigma fraternity.
GERMAN ANNUAL READY
6500 Copies of Yearly Bulletin Go Out Over The
State
The first one-day tournament of the fourth spring schedule of the Oread Golf club will be played tomorrow. Over twenty members of the club will participate.
The annual German bulletin will be published by the German department this week. 6500 copies will be printed.
A copy of the annual will be sent to every high school student taking German in the state. There are now 205 high schools in the state in which German is taught and 6231 students of German. These annuals will also be sent to the teachers of German.
Oread Bugs to Smoke After First One-Day Tour-
The bulletin will contain letters from Professor Briggs, now in Germany, a translation of Professor Carruth's "Each in His Own Tongue" by Professor Kruse, and a contribution by Professor Kiesewetter, now with the Wichita high school.
PLAY GOLF TOMORROW
Tomorrow night there will be a smoker at the home of Prof. C. H. Johnston, president of the club, at 1238 Mellon. street. All members will attend, whether they participate in the tournament or not.
nament
Sports to Have Extensive Dis play in Gym, with Appropriate Emblems
The first definite and settled plans for exhibits at the University Exposition May 2 and 3 became known this morning when Hal Rambo, chairman of the committee on athletic exhibits, made his report to the executive committee.
At the top of these pyramids will be mounted a gigantic emblem of the sport represented; a large football in the football booth, a baseball in the baseball booth and so on. On the track pyramid will be mounted large plaster cast of the Greek Discobolis.
Besides the trophy room in the Gym a space ten feet wide and running the entire length of the west side, there are also exhibits of University athletics.
This space will be divided into six booths, one for each of the four major sports, football, basketball, track, and baseball, one for the minor sports of swimming, tennis, soccer, handball, boxing, wrestling, and tumbling and one for girls' athletics.
A feature of the football booth i to be the large portrait of "Tommy" Johnson, the famous captain of 1906 U.S. Navy sailors, to exhibit there will be special demonstration classes in dancing, club drills and apparatus work.
In each booth will be built a pyramid, on the sides of which will be posted pictures of the sport at the University together with a complete set of uniforms. Of every contest in which the University has ever been engaged.
The committee in charge of this work in addition to Chairman Rambo is W. O. Patterson, Wm. Busick, Ora Hite, H. L. Richardson, Willard Lewellen, Frances Black, and W. O. Hamilton.
At the next meeting of the Oread Debating Society Friday, April 4, the question, "Resolved: That an old age pension law should be enacted in Kansas" will be argued until a satisfactory decision is reached if possible.
OREAD DEBATERS WANT
OLD AGE PENSIONS
Miss Polly Thompson, who left the University shortly after Christmas, and Mr. Foster Thompson, a student in a dental college in Kansas City, were married February 28, according to an announcement made public a few days ago.
Professor Neal of the department of journalism has gone to Iola to take up job finding and efficiency work with the Register. He will install a cost system in the printing plant of that office.
Neal to Iola
They will probably make their home in Kansas City until Thompson finishes his course there. Miss Thompson was a freshman in the School of Fine Arts.
Former Student Marries
W. A. McKinney and H. Adams have the affirmative and A. K. Rader and H. V. McColloch the negative. All members of the society are urged to be present.
Juniors Doped to Win Annual
Outdoor Affair April
The juniors apparently have a little the better of the race on the dope sheet with Greenlees, Hagen, Malcolmson. Cissna, Perry, and Jones.
Captains of the teams of the inter-class track meet to be held on McCook Field, April, 12 were appointed today. Black will lead the seniors; Hazen, the hurdler and high jumper, the juniors; Edwards, the 2-miler, the sophomores; and Reber, weight man, the freshmen.
Class rivalry in inter-class track meets has always been keen and prospects for a hot contest between the classes are good.
The freshies are decidedly the "dark horses" of the meet, but Smee, Schaefer, Atwood, and Reber should pull a few points their way.
The sophs look good with Ed-
wards, Hurst, Keeling, Coleman, and
Kearns.
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The seniors should take many points through the work of Black, Keplinger, Burnham, Patterson, Schwab and Crane.
One of the main reasons for holding this meet is to develop new material. Contestants from each class are urged to come out. Their training will stand them in good stead for next fall's work.
SALAMANDERS ARRIVE TO STAND EXPERIMENTS
California University Trades Amphibians with Kansas Zoology Department
Three dozen salamanders were received by the zoology department this morning from the University of California at Berkeley. They came by express in a ventilated chalk box labeled "Live animals—Keep Cool."
They are amphibians, but superficially resemble lizards, and live in moist, dark places. They are "the cunningest little things," as a member of the department expressed it, and will be fed worms and snails, and will be well taken care of while used. The University of California and Kansas exchange material of this kind which they are in a position to furnish.
These salamanders are of three kinds, answering to the names of Plethodon Oregoniensis, Onthodax Lugubria, and Bathrachoseps Attenutus.
In spite of this they are perfectly harmless. it was formerly believed that they could live unharmed through fire. This, however, has been proved false and experiments will be made, along another line, and not to determine whether the cunning little things can endure fire.
A meeting of the swimming club is called at 8:00 p. m. this evening in the swimming pool of the Gym.
Swimmers Meet Tonight.
HASH-HOUSE BASEBALL LEAGUE HAS ARRIVED
Inter-Club Circuit Starts—13 Clubs Hungry For Warm Weather
OTHER TEAMS MAY ENTER
Will Hold Roster Open For Additional Members—Committee to Draw up Schedule and Rules
The league will be divided into sections, an elimination contest to decide the championship. The champion will earn winners in the inter-fraternity league.
The inter-club baseball league was launched Tuesday afternoon when eighteen men, representing thirteen clubs met in the gym at the initial meeting. Coach Frank presided, explained the plan under which he thought the organization might operate and offered his assistance.
A committee was appointed to draw up rules and regulations for the league. It was decided that all men in school will be eligible to play as long as they remain members of a club, and only play on one team. They would also make the organization a success such a rULE should be rigidly enforced.
Following are the clubs entered: Hemphill, Custer, New England, Kinney, Brownlee, Co-Op, Babb House, Knights of Columbus, Franklin, Black, Martin, Stevenson, and the Stock.
Since the list is not closed any lubs wishing to join should send imames to Coach Frank before the end of this week.
FAIR WILL MAKE 'EM ALL REGULAR CROESI
Exposition Offers Chance to Students to Become Independently Wealthy
Students will be given a chance to amass wealth during the K. U. Exposition. The Finance committee will rent spaces to students who wish to erect stands or booths for the purpose of selling sandwiches, soap, or souvenirs to the visitors.
Students who desire to sell ham burgers, hot tamales, ice cream, and other novelties should apply at once to the committee for space. Maps of the University are in the hands of Russell Clark, and "Billy" Price, who compose the Finance committee.
As only a limited space will be allowed for these boots, and as students have first choice at the places, outside trade will be shut out if a required number of students respond. Sororites will occupy popcorn booths during the May Fete only.
"This is a good chance for the students to gather a little extra cash," declared Russell Clark, chairman of the finance committee this morning, "and at the same time to advertise the college's programs in front of the University which the alumnus can take home with them." (Meaning the souvenirs not the University.)
9. S. SOCIETY MEETING
  GOING ON TODAY
A large number of out-of-town speakers have been secured. Proamps for the reading of papers were held in the Engineering building, to be followed by a banquet at the Eldridge House tonight.
The fourth annual meeting of the Student Section of the Mechanical Engineering Society is being held at the University today.
Farce Results Tomorrow
Results of the tryout for the sample will be announced tomorrow.
Most of the parts have been decided upon.
Fellows Coming Back
E. R. Weidlein and G. A. Bragg,
will return to Kansas from experimental work at the University of Pittsburgh next Monday. They have been conducting experiments. They will resume work here.