STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY
TOPEKA KAN.
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOLUME X.
TO FLOOD POTTER LAKE FOR SKATING
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS, FRIDAY AFTERNOON, JANUARY 10, 1913
NUMBER 70.
Petitions Circulated Asking that Water from City Mains be Used
SECRETARY BROWN'S IDEA
In response to the call for a mass meeting for the purpose of removing the snow from Potter lake, which was postponed on account of the extra long chapel today and in spite of the weather threatening rain, hungry studies and their feminine friends may yet get to skate on the University campus.
Potter lake is to be flooded with water from the city mains and there will be skating gallo if the plans of Secretary E. E. Brown and a large part of the student body are carried out. Petitions asking that the lake be flooded are being circulation on the campus and at noon today several hundred signatures had been obtained.
Increased Size of Surface Will Insure Adequate Space for Entire Student Body-And Bodies
It is Mr. Brown's plan, if the petitions are granted, to flood the surface of the lake with water and thus remove the layer of snow that now covers it. Holes will be cut in the ice so that a smooth, even surface will result. The size of the lake will depend on how much water and, if the weather continues cold, the students will enjoy perfect skating.
Only Cold Weather Needed.
To facilitate skating by night a class in aviation, it is reported, was today assigned the problem of de-icing a simple lighting system to illuminate the tangent-to-a-helicoid pond.
"If the weather continues cold for a month," said Professor Raymond of the English department school, "we can turn the University exposition into an ice carnival such as they are." Montreal, Canada every winter.
The following petition is being circulated to secure the desired order from Secretary Brown:
"We. the undersigned, respectfully petition the University of Kansas through its secretary, Mr. E. E. Brown, to flood Potter lake for skating purposes."
Then go to Snow Hall and Acquire 1,750,000,000 Germs.
Four hundred students have already received the typhoid prophylactic inoculation given by the University at Snow hall.
DO YOU FEAR TYPHOID?
Three or four inoculations are given. If the student is in normal physical condition he receives three vaccinations, if not four inoculations are given in smaller doses. Dead typhoid germs, are injected into the arm. The normal student receives 250,000,000 germs the first vaccination A week or more later 500,000,000 dead bugs are given. Then at the last dose the student gets an even billion injected into him.
A private physician would charge $5.00 for the inoculation. Few physicians, however, have the materia at hand.
Only four per cent of the soldiers in the U. S. army, where vaccination is compulsory, ever have typhoid in any form. Typhoid vaccination has been in use there for several years.
Songsters to Kansas City. The men's Glee club will give its first concert of the year in Kansas City. January 24 in the Westport市. March 1 in the Dayton. The date of the first appearance here has not been definitely settled.
The arrangements for the Santa Fe trip have not yet been completed but an announcement concerning them can be made soon. Several offers from towns desires concerts have been received and may be accepted.
Some sections of the state lift up their voices these days in a plaint on the burden of taxation in Kansas. Local leaders likewise there be who are pointing out to the people that one way of cutting down the assessment rolls is to rub a few figures off the University budget needs.
PHYSICIAN TO THE TAX PAYERS
Here's one instance of these prescriptions.
Maimi County, according to one of the political physicians, paid $297,529 in taxes last year, and with retrenchment as his shibboleth, this astounding figure must be cut down. He advocated, therefore, snipping the state University's budget 75 per cent.
Miami County paid $15,267.43 of the $297,000.00 in state taxes.
Of this, $5,038 went to the State University.
Let's see.
Now apply the medicine. Cut down Miami's tax to K. U. 75 per cent an dit will save the county just $3,778.50; or about 20 cents each to the doctor's patients.
True, such a cut would reduce Miami's taxes from $297,529.27 to $294,000.00—and every little helps.
But it will give the K. U. students from Miami the cheapest and poorest brand of higher education in the United States.
ANNUAL SPACE TO HIGHER ALTITUDES
Organizations Must Now Pay
$16 for Double Page in
Jayhawker
That the amount charged all organizations for space in the 1913 Jayhawker must be increased to $16 for a double page, $10 for the first and $6 for the second page, is the decision of Asher Hobson, manager of the annual.
The actual cost of printing and engraving this year's book on a basis of last year's book is $10.62 per page or $21.24 for a double page. Therefore the price charged organizations for space is $5.24 less than the same space costs the management of the Jahyawkener.
Hobson states that the above rate is very moderate when compared with that charged by other schools, or manually on a pair with the Javhawker.
A statement, signed by M. C Minor, secretary of the Men's Student Council, Marie Sealy, secretary of the Woman's Student Government Association, and the members of the Jayhawker auditing committee, consisting of H. S. Neal, Russell H. Clark, E. L. Whitney, and R. G. Allison, has been issued showing the estimate of expenses made by the manager to be correct. The estimate shows that the cost of one thousand copies of the book will cost $5,314.00.
CHANCE FOR WEALTH
But Seniors Reserve Right to Turn Down Faulty Belasco Attempts
Send the Daily Kansan home.
If possible, the seniors desire to produce a play this year which shall be a strictly home production, and accordingly invite everyone, from red headed freshmen to head-baled graduate students, to show his powers.
They are not going to award the prize unless some worthy plays are submitted, and serve warning in advance.
Who will cop the glory of writing the senior play this year, and incidentally realize on that $50 of real coin of the realm offered as a prize by the play committee of the class? This question is agitating several students who have the dramatic bug, and if the itching becomes strong enough they may sit down to write a masterpiece. The members of the senior play committee are earnestly hopping that several persons will break forth in just that way, and produce something to reflect credit on the school and great glory on the fortunate playwright.
Miss Constance McCammon, chairman of the senior play committee, desires to hear from all who consider entering the competition, and will be glad to answer all questions. Effulgent glory and wealth beyond the dreams of avarice. Get busy!
BLACKMAR DISCUSSES HIGH COST OF LIVING
Declares City Man Can't Go Back to Farm and Make Good
"Much of this back to the farm movement is nonsense," declared Prof. F. W. Blackman, in his speech on "Some Factors in the High Cost of Living," before the state board of agriculture at Topeka yesterday.
"We have gone too far from the simple life ever to return to it, even if that were desirable. If the average city man went back to the farm he would be a failure, and only still further decrease the yield per acre. At the same time we must admit that the big factor in holding down the high cost of living is the production cost; scientific intensive farming has become a necessity, and the need of it, and the need for education along that line, cannot be too strongly emphasized."
Professor Blackman believes that every city and town in Kansas should have its own cold storage plant, and if the plant can be put up in no other way the municipality should build it. Each town should also have a municipal market house, a school, a hospital, too goes too high, by reason of a monopoly, the city can go into business along that line and lower prices.
Professor Blackman says that the influence of the tariff on the cost of living has been greatly overestimated, and that the effect of the trusts has been more to steady prices than to greatly increase them. The high cost of living he maintains is due more to the fact that people have higher standards of living and must pay the price.
STATE LOSES MILLIONS ON ITS FAULTY SCALES
OPENING CONCERT PLEASES
Owing to illness, Miss Dorothy Pasmore was unable to appear in the concert given last night by the Pasmore trio of American musicians. Miss Vera Poppe took her place at the violincello both in the concert pieces and the solos.
Miss Vera Poppe Substitutes in Program of Pasmore Trio.
Piano solos, Nocturnette from
"Carneval Mignon," (Schutt); Waltz
in E Minor, (Chopin), Miss Suzanne
Pasmore.
Report of K. U. Professor Shows that Kansas Balances Are In Bad Weight
Violin solos, Bye Baby Bunting,
(H B. Pasmore), Polonais Brilliante,
(Wieniawski).
At First Baptist Church.
The First Baptist church will hold its regular Sunday morning service at 10:30. Sunday school will start at 12:00. A special service will be given by the pastor Sunday evening at 7:45. The subject of 'the talk will be, "Is the World Growing Better or is the World Growing Worse?" O. C. Brown, pastor.
Trio, Four Episodes (Impression Pictures), (Schutt).
The program for the evening was made up of the following selections: Trio in B Flat major, Op. 8, (Brahms).
Vincolo琴 solo, Hungarian Fantasie. (Pommer), Miss Poppe.
Pi Kappa Psi will give a sleighing party tonight.
At First Baptist Church.
A THIRD PROVE UNBALANCED
City Buys Supplies for Five Years Over Official Machine That Proves 91 Pounds Off.
Every third load of produce bought or sold in Kansas passes over irraecurable scales and resulting losses to the farmer mount up into the million dollar column annually. This is the substance of a report to the legis lature compiled today by Edwin F. Stimpson, assistant professor of physics at the University of Kansas, and deputy sealer of weights and measures for the state.
"Of the one hundred wagon scales inspected by me personally the year, thirty-three were inaccurate," declared Professor Stimpion. "A scale is considered correct if it does not vary more than ten pounds to the ton from the true weight. Of those I found faulty, nineteen were light pounds less than 2000 pounds for a ton of produce and fourteen were in the heavy class. The slow scales averaged 1975 pounds and the fast ones 2,034. For when a scale goes bad, it usually is very,very bad."
"One Kansas city was found to be purchasing coal for its schools and municipal buildings over a city scale that recorded 2,091 pounds to the ton. And it had been doing this for five years until we discovered the error last month. Coal dealers and merchants of the city who were using these 'official' scales were losing five per cent of the product.
"That was but a single case, but when these losses are added to those in every section of Kansas, millions of dollars in losses is the total. Of course, these scales are not kept wrong intentionally. Often the discrepancy is not suspected, and even if the owner does believe it is, he usually thinks he is getting worse. The facts are fact, in about seventy per cent of the cases of inaccuracy, the error is in favor of the man using them.
LEID PRAISES BUSINESS
END OF JOURNALISM
"The cut-rate man is a cheap man," said Albert Reid before the classes in journalism this morning. In speaking of the advertising business Mr. Reid admonished the students to pay much attention to the business end of the newspaper game and when you are writing, and will give your dividends when you own the till."
"Every scale should be tested at least once each year, but it costs money to keep competent inspectors on the job. We are referred to let the scales go untested."
The legislature will be asked to make an appropriation for six inspectors at $1200 a year to work in conjunction with the Board of Health with authority to put out of commission any scale off more than ten pounds to the ton.
M. Fred Jamison was handed several bouquets by Mr. Reid. He is the editor of the Leavenworth Post, which is owned by Mr. Reid. Mr. Jamison is described as the kind of a man who goes out in the morning and rustles ads, brings them to the office, and then goes out and covers the murder, draws a picture of the criminal, makes his own chalk-plate, helps the make-up man, and then counts the papers out to the news-boys.
Journalism Week
Girls to Renew Hockey Practice.
Next week athletic girls of the University will begin preparing for quiz week by taking up basket-ball and hockey practice anew. Incidentally they will be getting ready for the inter-class games to be played in the spring. For some weeks the condition of the ground has made hockey practice impossible, but by next week the girls expect to have the necessary equipment for indoor practice in the gymnasium.
On the 'Kansan'
To illustrate to the nations at large the skill in newspaper practice developed during the first semester, the students of the department of journalism will hang their hat in the editorial sanctum of the Daily Killer. The department proceed forthwith to take full charge of the student paper for one week.
From Monday until Friday the cubs will scurry about the campus for information and news, will edit their own copy, write their own heads and perform all those thousand and one things which they learned in the classroom. And at the same time, so they declare, they will establish a model after which mere Daily Kansan staffs might pattern.
The regulars, shall rest While we are slipping into the back row in neglected courses, meeting forgotten friends, and viewing the publication from the outside, we ask our readers to bear with them.
We shall be back in a week.
Gums are Surely On the Toboggan
Sensible" Protectors Are on the Decline According to Actual Count —One-Fourth Wear Rubbers.
Going, going, almost gone. Overshoes, gums, rubbers, arctics, goloshes, or whatever you prefer to call yours, appear to be on the tobogan slide traversed by the dodo, the great auk, and the mastodon.
The number of persons wearing these appendages is decreasing, according to an actual count of the number of persons passing the library between 12:15 and 12:30 yesterday noon. During that time, 521 persons passed that point, 302 men and 219 women. Of the women, 109 did not wear overshirts; of the men, 285 did not wear overshirts; leaving but 137 of the 521 who were so equipped.
And it is not such a long time ago that every undergraduate who mounted the hill wore these "sensible" protections.
Overshoes—of all types were seen, from the tiny toe troopers affected by some damslens to the clumsy aarties which dreadful as it may seem, one member of the faculty wears. There were rubbers of dull, unobtrusive finish; rubbers of variegated hue, william one boy wore a resistorized shoe; rubber-wearing pair which fairly shrieked aloud of the dinern thus extended.
One girl, we tell this in strict confidence, wore a pair of flat-boats tied on with strings.
The laws incline much more numerously to rubbers than do the engineers—in fact, over at Marvin hill they hang—a man for appearing in such feminine apparel as goleses. But the engineers go in for those high-topped shoes, wherefore they should be indicted upon two counts.
STOCKWELL RESIGNS
Y. M. C. A. Secretary Will Leave at End of
REID TELLS STORIES AND DRAWS LAUGHS
Year
The resignation of Roy Stockwell, secretary of the University Y. M. C. A. has been handed in to Mr. Stockwell to take effect at the end of the year,
Topeka Cartoonist Entertains Large Chapel Audience With His Sketches
No definite reason has yet been given for the resignation. Stockwell intends to go east and may do settlement work or perhaps re-enter Harvard next fall.
Marcia Biddison, '12, and Earl Hall, '10, were married December 23 at Rock Island, Ill., and are now as home in Chicago, where Mr. Hall is employed as industrial chemist with a large manufacturing concern. I. February they will remove to Madison, Wisconsin.
Stockwell has been secretary of the Y. M. C. A. since the resignation of "Dad" Herman in December, 1911. His successor has not yet been named.
PICTURES CHESTY RAH RAHS
Bankers and Budget Both Come in for Treatment on Shaky Fine Art Fund
Arts Easel.
Albert T. Reid, cartoonist for the "Kansas Farmer," blew in chapel this morning, looked nervously uncomfortable while denying his ability as an orator, and then proceeded to transform a lot of charcoal smudge on a drawing easel into handclappings and chuckles.
The college grind, the distrustul banker, the frat man, and the K. U. budget served as inspiration for Reid's cartoons, made on a shaky easel borrowed from the Fine Arts department.
It seems that Reid has in his time had some unfortunate experiences with bankers and fraternity men, and
ALBERT T. REID
Serious Student Rapped.
he openly said so. "I am not a fraternity man," he said, "but if I were to come to school again I'd get in any frat that would have me.
Serious Student Kapped.
"Socially a frat is a fine thing. But my observation prompts me to say this—don't try to mix business oat n the cold, cold world with fraternity ties. Divorce the fratern and you won't have bad bills to collect at the end of the month."
Reid is a tall, semi-bald K. U. grad who has decided opinions on college life. "Students who cram take themselves too seriously," he declared. In terms of soft chalk he then showed a hungry stude carrying the world on his bent shoulder pads, his black pompadour, fresh with Enau de Cologne, expressing considerable grony
He Also “Writes Music.” His picture of the banker who marketed confidence in his (Reid's) ability to repay and the know-it-all colleague port telling the old businessman “now to do it” were well liked out his last picture showing the K. U. budget coming out of the state capital intact was the hit of the morning.
Reid is one of the best known cartoonists in the country, and has drawn illustrations for many of the big papers and magazines of the country. He got his start in Concordia in 1873, and according to "Who's Who" has "written considerable music."
ARCHIE J. WEITH HEADS
UNIVERSITY MARKSMEN
Last night, at a meeting of the entire University division of the National Rifle Association, Archie J. Weith was elected as the captain of the club. The success of the club is now assured as the membership is large enough to insure keen competition and the enthusiasm is very high. The club is also on a very firm financial basis and will shortly be able to offer prizes of value to the winners of the matches.
The Kappa Alpha Theta sorority will give the first formal spring party of the year this evening in the Fraternal Aid hall.