STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY
TOPEKA KAN.
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOLUME X.
NO NEW BUILDINGS FROM LEGISLATURE
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS, TUESDAY AFTERNOON, FEBRUARY 18, 1913.
Indications Are That Democrats' Retrenchment Policy Will Eliminate Them
MRS. LEWIS FOR REGENT
NUMBER 90
Wife of Kinsley Editor Slated for Member of New Educational Board, It is Said.
Special to the Daily Kansan.
Topeka, Feb. 18—That a report on the educational budgets may be sent to the senate this week by the ways and means committee is the general opinion of persons who have been in close touch with the work on pending appropriations. Already the ways and means committee has reported the appropriations for the state department and for all state departments. All of the state departments will be reported this week.
Unless there is great error in the reports from the committee rooms, the state educational institutions will this year receive more money for maintenance than was allowed by the 1911 legislature. Where the axe will fall, however, is on the requests for funds for new buildings. Such building progress as can possibly be deferred will be carried over until the 1915 session. That action is in strict keeping with the effort of the Democratic members of the ways and means committee to establish a record for so-called economy and a reduction of state taxes.
Another of the indications of saving on the part of the committees came to light today, when it became known that the house ways and means committee will this week recommend the reduction of $500,000 a year in expenses for three state departments. While these departments have not been designated and no official statement has come from any member of the committee, it is claimed that the economy plan is to be tried on the governor's office, the attorney general's office and the bank commissioner. In the governor's office alone, it is claimed that a saving of $16,250 a year is to be made over the appropriations and contingent funds allowed two years ago.
Hodges To Give Woman Place On Single Board
Special to the Daily Kansan.
Topica, Feb. 18—That a woman is to be appointed as a member of the new state administration board to supervise the state educational institutions, is the belief of persons who are interested in affairs. Mrs. Cora G. Lewis is the woman whom it is claimed is sited for the new $3,500 job.
Mrs. Lewis is the wife of J. M. Lewis, editor of the Kinaley Graphic and is regarded as one of the state's most talented women. Her candidacy has been strongly urged by legislative bodies to be claimed that Governor Hodges is giving her appointment most serious consideration.
Another probable member of the new educational board is Ed. Hackey of Winfield. Hackney, who is a former K. U. man, is prominent in Democratic politics in southern Kansas, is an able young lawyer and a former member of the state legislature.
It is probable that the three members of the new board will be announced by Governor Hodges within the next week or ten days.
150 STUDENTS REPORT FOR TEACHING POSITIONS
At the meeting held in room 116 Fraser Hall Friday evening more than 150 students reported for teaching positions. All the candidates names have not yet been turned in and the total number is not known. Women applying for position as teachers outnumbered the men 3 to 1
For the year 1912, 305 candidates applied for positions. 79 of these were from the senior classes. Professor Johnson predicts an increase of over 30 per cent this year.
Send the Daily Kansan home.
UNIVERSITY ADVISES KANSAS MAYORS
EXTENSION DIVISION
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
LEAGUE OF KANSAS MUNICIPALITIES
MEMBERS IN 1812-13 TO JAN.1,1813.
    ◆      11-12 ONLY.
    ○      10-11
MEMBERS IN 12-13, 56 CITIES.
    ◆      11-12 ONLY.
    ○      10-11
MUNICIPAL INFORMATION FURNISHED TO CITIES NOT MEMBERS OF THE LEAGUE
BY THE MUNICIPAL REFERENCE BUREAU.
MANY CITIES AND TOWNS RECEIVE AID.
Dykstra as Judge.
One hundred and twenty-two cities have been furnished information by the Municipal Reference Bureau conducted by the Extension Division. Questions of franchises, municipal government, sanitation and other important subjects are referred to this department by the officials. A League of Kansas Municipalities, made up of 56 members, is conducted in connection with this state service department.
JAYHAWKER WILL BE ON SALE BY MAY 1
Prof. C. A. Dykstra will go to Ottawa Friday to judge a debate on the public ownership of railways between Ottawa University and the Kansas Wosleyan of Salina.
Engravers Have Begun Work on Photographs and Drawings For Annual
The first consignment of copy and photographs for the 1913 Jayhawker was forwarded to the engravers last week, and the remainder will be sent by the tenth of next month. An attempt will be made to have the entire edition off the presses and ready for distribution by May first, so that books may be placed on sale at a booth during the Exposition.
"Purchasers have been secured for about 400 copies," said editor R. G. Allison this morning. "A thousand must be sold, but we anticipate little trouble in disposing of them, as the is attractive and worth the price."
Allison urges that students who have photographs depicting University life turn them over to the annual board, that cuts may be made from them, after which they will be returned to their owners. The snapshots in the Jayhawker will be numerous, and will make an attractive feature. Another feature will be the book-plate, occupying a double page, and done in colors. The drawing, symbolic of University life, is being prepared now, by an artist in Minneapolis.
WHERE A SOFT ANSWER
GATHERED SOME MOSS
This student made a "one" in the course. He is old and wily at the student game—old and wily enough to know that there are better ways of pulling grades than cramming and carrying a pocket-full of notes for exams. A classmate gave the formula away.
"Yes, I know they do," answered the professor, "but somehow, I don't know why, I talk louder than most teachers, and it might be they wouldn't want me to disturb the silence with my voice."
The class was small and the professor was discussing the advisability of holding the recessions in the classroom before reference books would be convenient of access.
"But, professor, if you do talk louder than most instructors it is because you have more to say," commented the wise one.
The professor swallowed, frowned a trifle, and modestly changed the subject at once. But that "one" on the registrar's books tells something.
"Some classes do meet there," volunteered the student.
ART OBJECTS FOR CLASS MEMORIALS
Prof. Wilcox Declares Sculp ture and Painting Most Fitting Gifts
"The best memorial any class can be behind them is some object of art," declared Professor Wilcox at the ceremony. "A walk in chapel on 'Memorials.'"
"The senior classes in the various schools should combine to leave behind them something worthy of the class. A fine original painting may be obtained for about $250, and the larger classes which we have probably can afford more than that amount. Original sculpture too high is not available, but excellent copies can be bad for a reasonable price.
"Without declaring there is not good taste among us, there is much room for improvement, and the classes can show the presence of this good taste by leaving to the University the works of art which the state does not supply."
Isabel Thomas, '12, is now teaching Spanish to the natives of Carolina, Porto Rico. She is the only American in the city.
Grad in Antilles
JAYHAWKER ELECTION A VERY TAME AFFAIR
Indications Are That Onl Half the Junior Class Will Vote
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BARBER SENDS DELICATE MISSIVE TO DEAN TEMPLIN
FINAL ELECTION RETURNS
The letter was written from Peking, China, and tells of Professor Barber's experiences in the Czechoslovakian Some portions of his letter follows:
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"I'm doing Japan, Korea, and China in a hasty fashion—about a month's trip," he says, "but I have learned a good deal about the country and people. China is certainly a great country and will continue to be. Thins are very quiet now. Chinese troops are everywhere, and squads of troops of all the great powers, besides some Russians and Belgians. Foreign residents generally are Americans, and some of them would probably like to see it go. But the new can hardly be worse than the old regime, which was no better than that of New York City or Philadelphia. Funny, isn't it, that China should have originated Tammany Hall and
Gardner. . . . . . . 125
Bechtold. . . . . . 76
Enclosed in a rose decorated envelope and written on Chinese tissue paper fancifully bordered came yesterday a letter to Dean Olin Tempin from M. A. Barber, professor of bacteriology and pathology and director of the Clinical Laboratories of University Hospital of Manila in service of absence for services in the government laboratories at Manilla, P. I.
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Waddell. . . . . . . . . . . . 119
Green hall, the Utopia of University politicians, is again in the throes of an election. The Oread politicians, having elected the gov't, are in Kansas are now engaged in naming the Jayhawk staff for next year.
The vote today was extremely light, only 35 per cent of the juniors having cast their ballots up to noon. Both the Liberal and Representative candidates were confident and the vote was so close that the result can not be foretold. A feature of the voting was the small number of girls who appeared. Both sides made strenuous efforts to corral the feminine vote as the suffragettes hold the balance of power.
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"Peking is a great place. Little of the city outside of the Legation quarters is modernized and the street traffic must be what it was years ago. Long strings of two hundred camels are common, and teams of horses, donkeys and mules in all sorts of combinations.
the civil service both, and kept them in good running order side by side? If she had not originated dry farm equipment we had a thrifty Populist party too.
"The Chinamen here are great big fellows, six feet and over—not like the south China people who come to the states. Their faces are different too, more of the Mongol and Tartar type. Some pig tails and some short hair are seen. The climate here is cold, but people dress very warmly, many fur things and thick quilted garments. They think we do not know how to dress comfortably, either."
Professor Barber says that railroads in China are modern and equipped with all the comforts of American main lines. Their hotels are also modern and the service good. In many ways the mingling of the old and the new in China offers great contrasts and makes a visit to that country very interesting.
MORE EXPLAINS THE ROMANTIC MOVEMENT
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Author of Shelburne Essays Delivers First Lecture on William Beckford
WILL CONTINUE ALL WEEK
Second of Subjects, Which Deal With "The Drift of Romanticism," Is "Cardinal Newman."
The first of his series of lectures "The Drift of Romanticism" was delivered in Fraser hall yesterday afternoon by Prof. Paul Elmer More, writer of *William Beckford—Rebellious Egism and the Flaming Heart*.
"Romanticism is a highly complex movement, and has been variously employed," said Mr. More. "It is the confluence of oriental religion and occidental philosophy, and had its source in Alexandria at the time of Alexander's power, since which time it has run like a river down through the ages. Romanticism has been defined as the sense of strangeness and wonder, and that definition serves about as well as any."
As an exponent of the romantic, Professor More chose for this lecture William Beckford, a very interesting Englishman, author of "The History of Caliph Valhek," which has taken its place as one of the finest productions of luxuriant imagination. "There was a story to the effect that Beckford wrote this at a single sitting." Professor More said, "working three days and two nights, but this is fabulous. He was, however, a very eccentric character. He had a mania for seclusion, which, together with his other queer ideas, gave rise to scandal. He squandered his immense fortune in erecting a magnificent mansion in which he could live alone. A key to the life of this wonderful man, who lived to a loveless, lonely old, age may be found in his statement, 'During my life I have never known a moment's emu!'
To hear Mr. More speak is a rare opportunity which no one can afford to miss, and it will be hard to find anywhere better examples of the use of pure English than these lectures.
Mr. More will deliver the second of the series of lectures in chapel at 4:30 today, on "Cardinal Newman—Romanicism in Religion."
COST OF LIVING IS HUGE JOKE IN CUBA
Antillian Fusers Send Simian Missiles Instead of Confectionery—Law Student Receives Sample.
The progressive natives find use for Uncle Sam's parel post in Cuba. There, the bare-legged fusser doesn't bother with a pink-ribboned bunch of violets for his heart's desire, but simply slaps a couple of fat stamps on a cocanut, inscribes her name on it, and carries her carrier does the rest. Imagine Ysabel's squeals of delight when she receives it next morning.
The father of Ray McClain, a senior law, is wintering in Cuba this year and has copied the native custom in sending a cacaout to his son. The fuzzy parcel arrived Saturday and occasioned considerable discussion when it was received.
The milky nut, as it comes from the tree, is encased in a tough, oblong husk about the size of a .22 caliber pumpkin. This was the object that the postman handed to McClain last week, along with a carnation-scented envelope and a dun from his tailor. A 12-cent stamp carried the parcel from its starting place in Cuba to the Lawrence address. McClain cut through the husk, removed the cocoonnut and its contents, and has retained the husk and shell as souvenirs.
TESTS SHOW GREAT DANGER FROM FIRE
Prof. Boyton Before Chemists.
Professor Boyton will speak before the Chemical Engineering Society tomorrow on "Financial Topics of Interest to Chemical Engineers." The Chemical Engineering society banquet has been postponed a week till February 25.
Water Pressure on Campus Too Weak to Be of Any Service
SUPPLY IS ALSO INADEQUATE
Even Use of Potter Lake Would Give Only Two Weak Streams, Says. Suyt. Crocker.
E. H. Dummie, city engineer of Lawrence, made tests of the water pressure through the fire plugs in the student district this morning, when a fire broke out at the pressure was far too low to be of any service should there be a fire.
Six different hydrants were opened at the same time and the measurements were taken with a hundred feet of hose at the plugs at Myers hall and $ \mathrm{a}_{4} $ Spooner library. The height of the stream at the library measured about ten feet from the ground. The stream from the plug at Myers hall exceeded this by several feet.
"The water supply of the University in case of fire would be inadequate," said Mr. Crocker, superintendent of grounds and buildings of the University, this morning. "The pressure on the hill is furnished by our own pumps but the supply of water from the company down town. In case of fire the water in Potter lake could be used but even then the supply would not be enough to throw two streams of water 100 feet."
WINTER HAS NO TERRORS
FOR WISH BALL CHASES
Oread Golfers Practice Daily for Annual Tournament to be Held on Decoratign Day.
Who says the winters in Kansas are bad? For the last five years, according to Prof. D. L. Patterson, there has not been a month during which golf has not been played on the Oread links. "This winter has been particularly open," said Professor Patterson, "and last year was the only one in which we came anywhere near losing out."
Professor Patterson, who is chairman of the Tournament Committee of the Oread club, will call a meeting soon to arrange for a series of events during the spring season, which will culminate in the Fourth Annual Handicap Tournament, probably on Decoration day. Oread representatives will play teams from the Topeka and Leavenworth Country Clubs. Events of the tournament will be played once a week.
The links are being greatly improved. The cups have been moved to temporary putting greens, so that the regular ones may be treated with loam and fertilizer. Work has commenced, and the links will be in perfect condition by the opening of the season.
W. S. G. A. BOOK EXCHANGE
WILL CLOSE TOMORROW
If you have books to sell or exchange you must get them in before Thursday. The "exchange" will close then.
"We expect to open the exchange for business at the beginning and close of each semester," said chairman Marie Sealy this morning. "In time we expect to develop the exchange into a regular supply center such as exist at other universities. The business done at this first attempt has far exceeded the expectations of the W. S. G. A."
BUT THE CARRIER LEFT
IT DAILY JUST THE SAME
FOR SALE—A complete file of the Daily Kansan since November, 1912. See Prof. H. P. Cady.
Ever since November 4 has the carrier been slipping Kansans under the door of room 112 Chemistry building, for it was at that time that Prof. R. K. Bailey left the University to go to Washington, D.C., without sending the Kansan official notice that he had gone.
This morning Professor Cady opened the door of the office, which had been empty ever since he left, and found the whole floor covered with copies of the Kansan.