TOPEKA KAN.
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOLUME X.
NUMBER 96
ST. JOHN, AGED 80,
REMINISCES OF '49
First Prohibition Governor of Kansas Speaks in Chapel
NOTED TEMPERANCE WORKER
Has Traveled 350,000 Miles and Spoken 5,000 Times in the Interest of Prohibition.
St. John celebrated his eighteenth birthday yesterday, when he meeting in New York City.
A crowd that filled every seat in chapel this morning rose and cheered when a white haired old man, the first prohibition governor of Kansas, John P. St. John, was shown to a seat on the platform.
He was governor of the state from 1879 to 1883. He identified himself early with the prohibition movement, and has been a hard fighter for that cause. Yesterday he told Chancellor Blake that the government speeches and traveled more than 350,000 miles in the interest of prohibition.
St. John talked this morning in a reminiscent vein, telling some incidents of his early life, after he used the plains to California in 1852.
"I want to talk to you on "Latin and Labor," said the co-Governor "When I reached California my funds were pretty low and I had to make so many money," took a contract to hire thousands of wood, and I finished the job.
"When I called for my money, my employee couldn't pay me. I hadn't the money."
"Then I went to see a awyer, for lawyers know everything. He took down a book that he hadn't used for six months, and after much searching around, he found this passage which he read to me:
"Any person who shall erect any building, structure or superstructure—" 'But its cordwood I'm talking about, not structures,' I said. He explained to me that superstructure was Latin for cordwood, and charged me twenty dollars. Herein lies the value of knowing Latin."
Today is the first time St. John ever spoke in chapel. He leaves for Topeka tonight.
"DEVILS" HAVE AN IDEA
Students in "Mechanics of Printing"
Would Eliminate Errors
Edwin Abels and Harry Miller, who are taking the course in Mechanics of Printing, have an idea for an improvement on type which, if properly worked out, should make them rich. The invention was suggested by their experience as "devils" in the printing office.
When the type is being distributed back into the cases, the bell will ring in case a letter is placed in the wrong box or in the wrong case. A small attachment will register the name of the person in case the mistake is not correct.
Abels and Miller feel sure that their idea is a good one, and think that such an invention would be a boon to the printer.
The idea is that on each piece of type a tiny bell should be placed, together with the necessary electrical equipment. When a composer is setting type, this bell will be automatically rung if he picks up the wrong letter or places it in the line incorrectly. If he fails to rung till the mistake is rectified, The elimination of typographical mistakes in this way will make is unnecessary to read proof, and effect a considerable saving of money.
To Entertain Students.
10 Entertain Students.
The Plymouth Guild will give an entertainment at the church parlors Saturday evening, March 1.
THE WEATHER.
Snow tonight or Thursday. Colder tonight.
Send the Daily Kansan home.
TRACK WORK IS NOT SUPPORTED--HAMILTON
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS, WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, FEBRUARY 26, 1913.
Coach Issues Statement Regarding Lack of Material at University
at University
After the victory at Manhattan many track followers figured that Kansas has a strong track team. And in some departments Coach Hamilton does have some sure point winners, but these men are few and cannot win a track meet by themselves.
"I am not getting the entire cooperation of the student body with regard to track athletics," said Coach Hamilton today. "This form of athletics has never been at such a low ebb as it is now."
"At present only about fifteen or at the most twenty men are out at any one time, which is very discouraging when about twenty-five hundred students attend this institution.
"The meet with the Tigers is nearing
and while Kansas can only boast of
a handful of track material, Missouri
has all the way from seventy-five to
a hundred men out every evening.
They are developing material every
week and he denly expects to turn out another
western championship team by the
month of June."
Who Will Race Nicholson of Missouri Saturday at Kansas City.
CHEM. ENGINEERS BANQUET
Had Seventy-Five Plates of a Six Course Dinner.
Seventy-five plates were laid at the Chemical Engineers' banquet in the Eldridge house last night, and a six-course dinner was served;蓉 followed the "eats," with Prof C. Young acting as toast-master.
Sigma Chi hei initiation last Saturday night for Harlan Russell, Lawrence; John Sharp and Houghton Albaugh, Toppea; Dix Tizoshermor, Elmer Sunderland, and Fred Anawalt, Kansas City, Mo.; Gene Ragle, independence; Paul Sautter, Horton, and Glenn Somers, Newton.
Prof. P. F. Walker spoke on "The Ghost Walks," Prof. E. H. S. Bailey on "Molecules," and Prof. H. C. Allen on "Ions." Prof. Gilbert Bergraad discussed the Ancient and Honorable Order of Yellow Dogs, which the chemicals introduced to K. U., and the chemicals introduced to the Organ doctor. Dr. Redmond chose for his subject "The Man Who Put the Organ in Organic Chemistry." There were several other short speeches by professors and students.
The following alumni attended the initiation: Howard Randall, Tod Woodbury, "Bus" Woodbury, C. M. Brigham, Dick Reid, DickSharp, Robert Kirchner, Cady Daniels, "Murph" Hissem, Archie Naramore, Joseph Connell.
Sigma Chi Initiates
SOPHOMORE HOP APRIL 18.
Prospects Indicate Lively Farce Good Music, and Good Eating.
April 18, Robinson gymnasium, for $2.50 per person is the time, place, and price of the sophomore hop and farce.
Ray Hall's seven-piece orchestra will furnish music.
Since some of the best actors in school are sophomores, the force should be a success. Tryouts have not been held yet, but the following have places in the cast practically cinched: Madeline Nachtmann, Ward Hatcher, Frank Miller, Elsa Barteldes, and Lawrence Morris.
Tickets are being sold only to seniors who did not pay their dues in 1911. Complimentary invitations will be sent to the faculty and to the seniors who paid their sophomore dues.
To accommodate the crowd the four course dinner will be served in three halls.
Over 60 Men Working Out Eats, Fun, Stunts, Joy!
Joy!
INDOOR CIRCUS WILL BE A HUM DINGER
Over sixty men are working out for the indoor circus.
"About thirty tumblers, thirty dancers, eight or ten apparatus men and several specials are reporting from the studio said Director C. B. Root this morning.
"We are trying to introduce some new feature into the circus this year, but so far have been unable to devise anything that we could afford to build. A number of thrillers have been suggested,—one of them a 'slide for life' from the top of Fraser hall."
It is probable that in general the circus this year will be similar to that of last year with lots of tumbling, dancing, apparatus work, pyramid building, Roman ladders, rings, high bar, and clowns. However Instructor Root hopes to make it bigger and better this year even if it is along the same lines as that of last year.
"A number of men are working on the <s>black and tight wires and are becoming quite skillful," says Root. "They make a good deal of that sort of work."
Of course there will be bands,
orchestras, and all the accessors
of this album, unaccessible.
Some of the men who are working on the gymnastic stunts are Babb Pauly, Haines, Dunn, Clauson, McNaught, Tudor, and Wickstrom.
DR. HILLIS WILL DELIVER THREE LECTURES IN GYM
To Talk on "America of Today and Tomorrow" and "Oration on Henry Ward Beecher."
"the America of Today and Tomorrow" is the title*of* the first address of the series of three to be delivered in Robinson gymnasium by Dr. Newell Dwight Hillis. The first lecture will be given Saturday afternoon, March 8, at 3 o'clock. The second will be at 8 o'clock Saturday evening and 3 o'clock Sunday afternoon, March 8. The subject for the second lecture will be announced later.
The price of admission will be fifty cents for the series of addresses for students and faculty. For all others it will be twenty-five cents for each lecture. Seats will be put on the University bookstore and at the University book store. Y. M. C. A. All seats will be reserved.
Rev. Frank H. Smith will talk on "Why Has Japan not Accepted Christianity" at a joint meeting of the University Y. M. C. A. and Y. W. C. A. Sunday afternoon in Myers hall. All students and members of the faculty are invited. Dr. Smith was graduated from the University in 1802 and for seven years has been a missionary in Japan. He is now at home in Lawrence on a furlough. Dr. Smith sang in chapel Friday. He is regarded as one of the best bass singers who ever attended the University.
REV. SMITH WILL ADDRESS
JOINT Y. M-Y, M. MEETING
FACULTY TEA TOMORROW
Wives of Professors to Hold Next to Last Open House.
The fifth of the six teas given by the ladies of the faculty to the girls of the University during the year will be given in Haworth hall tomorrow afternoon from 3 to 5:30. Tea, cake, and mint will be served, and all girls are cordially invited to attend.
Owing to the number of events, coming off in April and May only the six teas, once a month, will be given this year. Tomorrow's tea was postponed from last Thursday on account of a conflicting date.
Arrangements for about 250 guests have been made. The color scheme will be pink and silver, Mrs. Sterling and her gang. Other guests, others, will be on the receiving line.
The order of things was reversed one month this year when the men of the faculty were entertained with great success.
Annual Smoker of Pan-Helenic To Be Full of Burlesque
GREEK SYMPOSIUM AT FRATERNAL AID TONIGHT
The annual Pan-Hellenic smoker will be held tonight in F. A. A. hall under the auspices of the eight national fraternities included in the Pan-Hellenic association at the University of Kansas. Kappa Sigma, a national fraternity at the University, is not a member of the council.
There will be smokes and eats and a program that promises to set a new epoch in the line of student amusements.
Beta Theta Pi will start things with "The Poodle Dog," a roaring frolic, with seven characters and a face before the crowns head of, Furious.
Phi Kappa Psi will follow with "Polite Vaudeville," introducing a "Spareribs and Gravy" duet by Evans and Planktet, renowned masters of wind instruments, and Hirom Morris in "Never Arain For Bill."
Preceeding the next number by Phi Gamma Delta will be an intermission of ten minutes during which one of the audience will be served refreshments.
Phi Gamma Delta will present the Fi JI Quartette Imperial, composed of Mitchell, Surber, Wooster, andawers, in "If You Can Stand It"Courtesy
Ward Lockwood will appear for Phil Delta Theta in a series of lightning sketches. At this point the second intermission of ten minutes will occur during which another part of the audience will be served.
Sigma Nu will appear in "The Imperial Minstrels", introducing from Fields' and Dockstaders, in songs and musical specialties.
Here the third intermission will take place in which the remaining members of the audience will be served, and each of Alpha Tau will stand will cause a one臭怪 trophe” entitled “Their Fathers' business.”
Sigma Chi will portray "The Fall of Rome—A. D. I1913," which is "a brief exposition of that long-lost institution which Royal Heads have participated in with much gusto." Among the characters will be Hunsinger My-Dear-O, Gen. Portfolio Diaz, Gen. Victoria兰 Whereto, and Gen. Victorian. Whereto, and other accessories will be staged and spectators and press-correspondents" are warned not to "interfere with the hostilities."
Sigma Alpha Epsilon will end the program with its production of the melodrama, "A Day in Fratville or When One Thing Comes, They All Come in a Bunch," "direct from 100 nights" run in New York City. The group is in the Frank House the Phi Betas, K. U., and the time any time."
The cast will contain eight principal characters and in addition, "Colored Individuals of Note, Freshmen, Helpers, Musicians, etc."
Professor Johnston of the Education department has just received calls for four or five high school teachers. Any one desiring a position should see him at once.
Rush Call for Teachers.
DEUTSCHERS READY TO GIVE 'DER DUMMKOPF
Will be Given in America First Time Tomorrow Night
"Der Dummkopf" will be presented for the first time in America at the Bowersock tomorrow night by the Bowersock Verein. The cast is as follows:
Frau Schirmer, an asthmatic, Minnie Moser.
Lisbeth, her daughter, Elsa Barteldes.
Kurt Engelhart, lawyer, Harold Mattoon.
Justus Haeblerin, bank clerk,
Robert Woolley.
Gerhard Beck, inventor, George
Pike
Willibald Beck, poet, Paul Schaeffer.
Doris Wiesand, an American heiress, Eileen Burkhardt.
Dr. Thelenius, proprietor of an asylum, Fred Sprerer.
Lucy Hensel, her companion, Florence Payne.
Judge Olschlager, Aaron Prepenburg.
Bohmann, lawyer's assistant,
Louis Starin.
Wilkle, court usher, Fred Poos.
Rosa, servant at schirrer's Marie,
Mr. Roussard.
Franciska, servant at Dr. Thelenius', Ada Cressman.
Seats are now on sale, ranging in
seats to twenty-five to seventy-
five cites.
TALKS TO DRAMATIC TYROS
Prof. Croissant Addresses Quill Chon "Modern Dramatic Movement"
"The pernicious influence of Shakespeare," said Prof. C. DeWitt Croissant in his talk to the Quill club yesterday afternoon, on "The Modern Dramatic Movement," "is responsible for many of the faults of the English drama. Shakespeare's plays need a great deal of revision before they are suited to dramatic performances."
Professor Craissant quoted from a recent letter from Brander Matthews to the effect that Edwin Booth made a mistake when he abandoned the Colley Cibber adaptation of some of Shakespeare's plays, and resumed the original version.
In tracing the development of the English drama, Professor Croissant sketched briefly dramatic history from the Elizabethan dramatists, through the Renaissance, through Scribe, Dumas and the French school, to the modern dramatist.
TO HOLD RECEPTION
"Today the drama asks us to think," declared Professor Croissant. "It no longer presents an individual problem, but a world problem, as in Galsworthy's 'Strife', or Kennedy's 'The Servant in the House.'"
Y. M. Invites All Students to Myers Hall Friday Evening
The University Y. M. C. A. will hold open house for the W. Y. C. A. Friday evening in Myers hall. However everyone is invited and will be offered whether or not they have any connection with either association.
That there will be plenty, of opportunity to get acquainted and lots of chance for fun is the assurance of A. L. Crookham, chairman of the social committee of the Y. M. Among the numbers arranged for the program was Michael Sinolos in solos by John Martin, readings by Robert Reed, instrumental music by the Keltz trio, and readings by Ira Pratt and Hazel Clark.
A large number of University students are scheduled to take part in William Favernsham's production of Julius Caesar at the Bowersock theater next Monday. Two practices a week are being held to drill the varlets for the exact moment they are to raise their voices.
Send the Daily Kansan home.
WILL CARRY SPEARS
FOR FAVERSHAM
WIDEN CIRCULATION AND REDUCE COST OF ANNUAL
Skull and K Presents Plan for Seniors to Donate Jayhawker
COUNCIL APPOINTS COMMITTEE
Will Take Action on Scheme to Assure Financial Success of Year Book at Decreased Cost.
The donation of the Jayhawker to the University by the senior class, the consequent raising of the student's assessment when he is a senior and reduction in the price of the book, increased circulation and advertising and the giving of college credit to the manager and editor are required. The role of the management of the annual submitted to the Men's Student Council last night by a committee from Skull and K, honorary senior society.
The council referred the matter to a committee consisting of Paul Ross, Oscar Dingman and Arthur Crookham. Asher Hobson and Harlan Thompson appeared from Skull and The Mitten will take up the matter in detail and report at the next meeting of the council.
Present Plan Impracticable.
The changes were recommended by Skull and K because of the impractibility of the present scheme of running the annual. "At the present time," Hobson told the council "the manager starts his year's work with absolutely nothing to depend upon. He can get no credit because of the uncertainty of raising his budget. As a result all of his energies are expended in collecting money instead of superintending the multitude of matters that come up in designing and printing a book the size of the Tajyawker.
Would Charge Seniors $7.50
"The scheme worked out by Skull
and K is as follows: Let every
senior pay, for instance, $7.50 in his
senior year. This would entitle him
to his picture in the Jayhawker and
paying $4.50 or $5. At the new price
of the book could be reduced to $1
and its circulation would be increased
from 1,000 to 3,000. This increase
would mean a proportionate increase
in the amount of advertising.
"The advantages of the plan are manifest. The school will receive more advertising through the wider circulation, and the cost to the student will not be increased and at the same time he will get four annuals instead of one as at present. Under the new plan organizations would not have to be charged over half the present rate and the amount the student saved on group pictures during the four years and the difference between $1 and $3 on his annuals would more than make up the difference between the amounts to be paid in his senior year.
"The plan would also allow the manager to give his attention to matters which he must now leave to the printers and engravers with the change. The plan will take advantage of him. The plan is successful operations in other schools."
Sliding Scale for Next Year.
"Of course, it would not be fair to charge next year's seniors the full amount for they will not receive the full benefit. We wish to suggest a sliding scale in which the increase is adjusted to benefit received and which would reach four years from now. The price of the Jayhawker could be reduced in the same proportion."
The committee also suggested that the editor and manager of the annual be given a certain number of hours credit for their work instead of receiving a salary. In this way, it is easy to keep up their school work and the money could go toward reducing the cost of the book.
Should the council see fit to take up the plan a mass meeting of the student body will probably be called to determine the sentiment of the school.
Dinmore Elected to Council. Robert Dinmore was elected last night to fill the vacancy on the Student Council caused by the resignation of Ross Beamer.