TOPEKA KAN.
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOLUME X.
NUMBER 79.
WILL INVESTIGATE
SALARIES AT ONCE
Legislature's Committee Must Have Report Ready By February 4
DAVIS WILL FINE NON-VOTERS
Botkin.
Three Dollar Penalty Would Provide
Road Fund—Hodges Names
Special to the Daily Kansan.
Topeka, Jan. 23.—The stage is now all set for the legislative investigation of the number of employees on the state pay roll, provided for in the resolution prepared by Representative Roetzel of Washington county.
Senator L. P. King of Cowley county is the chairman of the investigating committee. The other members on the part of the senate are Senators Bowman of Anderson and Lambertson of Brown.
The members on the part of the house are Gibson of Cowley, Orr of Atchison, Riddle of Marion, Cook of Treero and Brewster of Doniphan.
The committee will begin its investigations at once as under the terms of the, Roetzel resolution its report must be made by February 4th.
Fine For Not Voting.
Members of the K. U. faculty and
student body who do not exercise
that discipline may be sorry for it
this year.
Senator Davis of Bourbon county has introduced in the state senate a bill levying a fine of $3 for every man and woman who fails to go to the nolls and vote .
Davis estimates that since the passage of the suffrage amendment that there are 600,000 qualified voters in the state and that only about 80 per cent of them ever go to the polls.
He believes that his law would provide a fund of $350,000 which could be used to advantage in the building of new roads and highways.
Stance Myers of Leavenworth was named a member of the board of control to succeed Herman Elliot and St Martin of Ft. Scott.
Botkin Named for Warden.
Governor Hodges this morning sent the second batch of important appointments to the house for confirmation. Among these was that of J. D. Botkin of Winfield as warden of the state penitentiary to succeed J. C. Codding.
A republican was reappointed as adjustant general. Myer Hurley of Kansas City, Kansas was appointed second democratic member on the public utilities commission. The third member of the utilities commission will be a republican not yet decided upon.
K. N. G. GETS 3 MONTH'S PAY
University Now Has a Fighting Force of 63 Members.
The K. U. student company of the Kansas National Guard were paid last night for their three months' service since the opening of the school last fall. There are now sixty-three members of this division including the Captain, Frank E. Jones.
Last week various companies on the National Guard took part in the inaugural parade at Topeka. The K. U. division was represented on this occasion by the presence of the entire company.
After the parade, the officers of the divisions remained for a three days session when they were instructed in various new maneuvers by a representative of the United States army.
French Club to Meet Mr. Delamarre
A meeting of the French club will be held at 3:30 Friday afternoon in room 310 Fraser hall in order that the members of the club may meet Mr. Delamarre, representative of the Alliance Francise.
Justice Mason in Chapel Tomorrow. Hon. H. F. Mason, justice of the supreme court, will be the regular speaker in chapel tomorrow.
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS, THURSDAY AFTERNOON, JANUARY 24, 1913.
MOBILE OPTICS ARE DEVOURING SPACE
Peregrinations of Student Orbs This Week Total Distance Equal to Cook's Tour of Universe.
It has been confidentially asserted at various times by Prof. H. A. Rice that light travels at the rate of 186,000 miles per second, but one energetic studie, R. K. Splivens of Obediah Gulch has had the energy and foresight to compute how far the eyes of students will travel in doing their semester work in outside reading this week.
"Allowing that each student only reads ten thousand pages," said Splivens this morning, "which would be a most conservative estimate,—so conservative in fact that I should hate to have the professor find it out—and allowing sixty lines to the page and seven inches to the line, we find that the eyes of each student will travel no less than steen quillions of inches or about umpty amp trillion miles, which would equal fourteen times the distance from Lawrence to Neptune.
"The combined distances the eyes of all the library devotees will travel would equal a round trip to the end of space."
COUNCIL WILL ELECT OWN
GRADUATE REPRESENTATIVE
"No special election of the Graduate School will be held to elect a member on the board of the Men's Student Council," declared President C. M. Coats this morning.
Petitions signed by students of the Graduate School must be sent to the council, and the council will elect one from those whose petitions have been sent in. Every petition must have twenty-five signatures, and be accompanied by a deposit of 50 cents. These must be handed into the council by Monday. February 10th, before 6:00 p. m.
H. S. CONFERENCE TO MEET HERE IN MARCH
Over forty delegates and twenty different schools will be represented at the Tenth Annual Conference of High Schools and Acadamies to be held at the University March 14 and 15 under the auspices of the School of Education.
Twenty Schools and Forty Delegates to Attend-Present Varied Program
High school principals, university professors, and others authoritatives in their lines of work, will speak on topics dealing with history, English, mathematic, and educational superintendence.
After a program Friday, March 14 consists of speeches by W. D. Ross, state superintendent of public instruction, and H. J. Waters, of the Agricultural college, an afternoon will be devoted to educational problems in Kansas.
Friday evening J. L. Henderson of the University of Texas, and Frances E. Clark, of the Victor Talking Machine company, will give addresses. The conference will close with a luncheon and after dinner speeches by Chancellor Strong, Dean Johnson, and Ex-governor Stubbs.
Cream celiary soup, coultons, veal loaf, potatoes on half shell, peas, hot rolls, nut salad, wafers, kisses a la made, coffee and mints constitute the menu of the five course dinner to be served at a cost of twenty-five cents a plate to two K. U: faculty members and their wives, by a number of girls in the home economies department tonight at six o'clock.
UM-YUM! THIS BEATS
THE ELDRIDGE CABARET
The hostesses are Florence Barnard and Mary Tupper who will entertain Professor and Mrs. H. P Cady, and Professor and Mrs. F. B Daims.
Dr. Edna Day will also be present. Eleanor Keith and Edna Hyer will serve.
Miss Helen Stevens, '12, will be here tomorrow to visit friends at the Chi Omega house.
SPRING-LIKE WEATHER BOOSTS THE CONTEST
Pomes Continue to Inundate All the Kansan's Force of High-Brows
ANOTHER GEM DISCOVERED
Turns the Frows to Uwl.
Gladness—Like the Gladness
After Quiz Week.
From behind the darkling cloudlets burst the sun in all his glory, flooding all the world with gladness; all with gladdness did he flood it. And the gladness of the morning was communicated straightway to the Poem Editor who looked upon the heaps of letters, that were strewed around about him, round about him like a bulwark, and his smile was not affected, 'twas the smile that would not come off .
So the Man Who Reads The Poems, had no disposition surly, thought the pomes were there in there in bushels, e'en in windrows they had pile up. Forth he strode unto the conflict, having but one deadly weapon. Scissors snipped the lettes open. He saw what the mail had brought him.
And the Spring-like weather outside had increased poetic feeling like the wheat-crop and the corn-crop boost the number of the freshmen. So a gem he then selected, picked it out from all the others, set it high above the others, like the soaring cost of living. For the poem that he seized on was a pippin of a spasm, a home run, was a dinger, even might be called a ten-strike.
It had Browning simply faded, as for Shakespeare he was trailing several dozen yards behind it with old Milton and the dead ones. All the other touted poets who have sung through ages previous would have turned pea-green with envy had they listened to its reading. But such gems can not be hidden from the Daily Kansan's readers so we now present this little masterpiece in all its beauty.
Now the title of the poem is the acme of enchantment. It is labeled simply
"Sweet Spring."
Syweet Spring! Thou darling of the season!
Ever wert thou wont to bring me
iov.
Anon 1 may recount the million reasons
Why I love thee, Spring, so fair and coy.
And yestermorn when dawn my eye-
ada  on'ed
Embrace me Spring, and to my throbbing heart
I seemed to know that you were here again.
Nor did I feel n single solitary pain.
stretched my arms and no more
moped.
Be kind as you hast used before.
From this old earth noe'r more de-
formed.
JUNIORS ELECT FOR ANNUAL NEXT MONTH
Harbinger of flowers and birds and bees.
So other seasons can harass us no more.
He must indeed be very hard to please.
If thy presence cannot make one to sing.
Here's to thee, vibrant breathing spring!
New Plan Will Give Next Year Men Advantage of Experience
"WILL SAVE MONEY"-HOBSON
Under New Plan Jayhawker Need
Face no More Deficits—No Candidates in Field Yet.
The juniors will elect the manager and editor of next year's Jayhawker in February, instead of next fall.
and editor of *next year e* dayfawner in February, instead of next fall. Busting the piling, made last fall by the Mens Student Council, will enable next year's officers to work with this year's board enabling them to get practical experience which should be of great benefit to them next year.
"If I had known what I know now, to my sorrow," said Manager Hobson this morning, "we could have put out this year's Jayhawker several hundred dollars cheaper."
Mandoliners Concert Scores Big Success Last Night—Many Features.
GIRLS' GLEE CLUB A HIT
The new officers will commence work with Manager Hobson and Editor Allison as soon as they are electors announced his candidacy for the honors.
Three features, an unaccompanied mandolin solo by Breaththist Robertson, a whistling solo by James Butin, and several numbers by the Girl's Glee club made the program of the mandolin concert last night, a
EPIGRAMMARIAN THRIVES IN JAYHAWKER SANCTUM
The numbers by the mandolin club and the tenor solo by Walter Eastman were especially good. This concert was the first appearance of the Girls' Glee club and from its performance last night the club is going to be a success. The audience was appreciative and responded to the numbers with vigorous applause.
JUNIOR PROMENADE IN APRIL
Boddington and Strickland Promise a Classy Hop—Lots of Interest
The date for the bouton from him not been definitely decided upon yet, but will be about the 10th of April," said Manager Edward Boddington this morning.
"The Prom this year will be bigger and better than ever before. The class this year is taking a great deal of interest in the Prom and with this cooperation the best entertainment of its kind in the history of the school should be given." Managers Strickland and Boddington have already been making many preparations and have added many new features never yet secured at former Junior Proms.
Trouble is evidently beetsetting Manager Asher Hobson's path somewhere, for he has found the following somewhat cynical motteos printed and placed on the walls of the Jayhawker headquarters in the basement of Green Hall:
Extension Department Busy.
Extension lectures will be given
Friday by Prof. C. G. Dumlap at
Iola on Robert Louis Stevenson,
Prof. H. P. Cady at Waterville on
Liquid Air, and Dr. Naismith at
McPherson on "Play, its Scope in
the life of a child."
Extension Department Busy.
"I if there is anything about the
"Ijawahker policies" you don't like,
Skilton Scouting Around.
Dean S. C. Skilton lectured before the teachers of the Hiwatia city schools in the high school auditorium of that city yesterday afternoon.
"Do unto others as others do unto you—no one will credit us. Please take the hint."
of that city yesterday afternoon.
"We will not mind our own business; we have none. It belongs to the senior class. Ask us to show you their account books."
curse the manager. He's used to it.
"Complaints are our specialty."
"We invite investigation."
"This is the manager's desk. Since you were manager of your high school annual", tell him how to run the 1913 Jayhawker."
"Yes, we know your last year's annual cut is good, and your last year's picture is better, but we can use neither—the photographers need the money."
"We confess having committed many sins, but we are not guilty of paying for the painting of these signs out of Jayhawk funds."
CO-EDS MUST WEAR
BASEBALL MASKS
Tender-Visaged Damels May Have to Organize Protective Association or be Tickled to Death.
A mystery, a real mystery, ranging from a deep dark black to a soft, cornsilk yellow, has been discovered at the law building.
The terrible secret was uncovered while Herlock Sholmes and William Slideburz with their assistants, were investigating the "Adventure of the Chamois Powder Rag." But for their clever work and good luck in overhearing two Senior laws discussing the growth of their whiskers, it would perhaps forever have remained a secret. One reason is that the growth of Senior laws swore to allow their mountaches to grow until after exams.
Determined to discover the culprits the detectives set to work from this slight clue and after incredible difficulty discovered that the following were those growing moustachios: "Chuck" Dolde, Orlin A. Weede, Victor Henry, Clarence Carlton, John Hoffman, "Bully" Magill, Kenneth Simmons, Richard Hepworth, William Norris, and Sam Bierer.
Most of the hirsute adornments are still in the incipient stages and appear more like timid eye-brows than really serious attempts. The owners of these weisps, however, assert with the utmost confidence that they will soon be visible to the naked eye.
The passing days may reveal that others are in the secret pact, but so far only those mentioned have confided their secret to their most intimate friends. Some of the class who are not prepared to go the limit are sprouting sympathetic moustaches, which they can deny in toto should occasion arise.
According to the terms of the sacred oath, you know, those moustaches must remain until after quiz week. What if the faculty would abolish quizzes?
LITTLE CARRIE LIKES UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL
Seven - Year - Old Patien
Writes Letter of Approval To K. U.
Endorsement of the work of the state of Kansas in caring for its crippled children came today from two different sources to the office of Chancellor Frank Strong of the University of Kansas which conducts the state hospital at Rosedeal. The letters of approval were signed with the names of a prominent Chicago merchant and a little Kansas girl. "My understanding is that your state is taking unusually good care of such people and I want to advocate the improvement in two other states," writes Wirt W. Hallam, Illinois reformer.
Told of Livingston
And seven-year-old Carrie, who came to the University hospital with a useless arm sent the following letter to the surgeon who made it straight again: "Dear friend how are you I am fine and dandy I got home alright I can't raise my arm no higher than out level. How is Mary? Has she got her cask on yet? My arm is better now than before. is Eva there yet? ore did She go home before Christmas, tell the Doctors Hello for me. well I was glad to get home and the folks was glad to see me. I will close for this time so good bye from your friend."
Send the Daily Kansan home.
The legislature of 1911 passed a law making it the duty of physicians to report the cases of poor children whose deformity could be cured by an operation. The county health officers were authorized to send the littles one to the K. U. hospital for free medical services.
The life and work of David Livingston, the missionary and explorer of Africa, and the Livingston Centennial, was graphically and interestingly given by Mrs. Wallace C. Payne at the Y. W. C. A. meeting yesterday.
MANHATTAN TEAM MAKES IT TWICE
Despite Sensational Fight by Kansas Five the Aggies Take Second
FINAL SCORE WAS 27 TO 25
Captain McCallum Stars for Agile Five Sproul Leads Goal Tossing for Reorganized Jayhawkers
In one of the roughest and most exciting games ever played in Robinson gymnasium the Aggies again walked off the victors. This time it was by a bare two point lead, the score standing 27 to 25 in their favor, but it was sufficient to give the Farmers a record of two successive wins against the Hamilton five. In last night's game Coach Hamilton shifted the line-up, Dunnire replacing Smith at guard, and Sproull going in for Hite, at forward. This line-up seemed to present the strongest playing yet displayed by this season's team. The Kansas squad showed unusual light, and but for the luck breaking against the Jayhawk goal tossers the score should have been different. However, the real cause of last night's defeat was excessive fouling. A glance at the score card shows the two teams breaking even on the number of field goals while through tough tactics by the Varsity the Aggies were given fifteen chances at free throws, of which nine were caged. At the same time Red Brown tossed seven out of ten for the Hamilton organization.
Jayhawkers Got the Jump
Jayhawkers Out the Jump
The reorganized five showed unusual strength and had the Aggies almost hopeless in the first few minutes of play. The Farmers seemed bewildered before the Kansas speed and missed many easy chances at baskets. The first half was all Kansas and ended with the Jayhawkers holding the lead by a 13 to 10 score. Sproull and Brown played a wonderful passing game in this session and but for the Jinx perching on the edge of the Kansas basket the score should have reached the twenty mark.
In the second half the Aggies came back with a rush and the game setled down to a neck and neck race with the result probably depending on a lucky basket or two. At this point the center and the Aggie captain got busy and kept their team in the scoring by throwing six baskets between them. Fouling towards the last of the game however really settled the result, the Manhattan team securing their two point lead in this manner. Coach Hamilton inserted Weaver in the last half but Bill though playing a beautiful floor game was unable to come through with a ninth inning goal hitting rally.
As usual, the strength of the Lowman quintette lay in the sensational work of Captain McCallum and Sounders. Sounders plays a wonderful game at center but the real feature of the Aggie work is the sensational goal shooting of McCallum. Sporrell was the star for the evening for the Kansas team although the work of Captain Greenees, Brown and Dunnite was worth mentioning among the featured list.
The box score
Kansas G FT F
Brown, f. 3 7 2
Sproull, f. 5 0 2
Boehm, c. 0 0 4
Dummire, g. 0 0 3
Greenlees, Capt g. 1 0 2
Weaver. 0 0 2
9 7 15
Aggies.
Shull. . . . .
Soft This is.
Here's a case of getting something without paying for it—in cash. All hygiene students (girls) who have nothing below a I and no cuts registered against them, have been exempted from the coming final.