TOPEKA KAN.
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOLUME X.
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS, WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON DECEMBER 4 1919
NUMBER 55.
DISTINGUISHED MEN
COMING TOMORROW
Legal Associations Will Convene Here for Three Day's Session
100 DELEGATES EXPECTED
Recall of Judges and Mothers' Pension Law of Illinois to be Discussed in Meetings.
The University will have as its guests Thursday, Friday, and Saturday of this week at least one hundred of the most distinguished men of the state. They will be here to teach you how to conduct the Kansas State Society of Criminology, the Kansas Conference of Charities and Corrections, and the Association of Probate Judges.
"Two of these societies are naturally small in numbers," said Professor Higgins this morning. "The Society of Criminal Law and Criminality can do its best work with small numbers, and quality is of much greater importance than quantity in its deliberations. The Association of Probate Jurists is also interested in the conference, which will be interested in the Conference of Charities and Corrections and it is larger than the other meetings.
"These conferences, however, by their very nature will bring together a number of the most distinguished men of the state, and we expect at least one hundred, and probably many more will be present.
Two men are of national reputation. Judge John B. Winslow, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Wisconsin, will speak on "A Recall That Failed;" and Judge Merritt W. Cook, of the Juvenile Court of Chicago, will give two addresses. One of these, "The Funds to Parents Act of Illinois" (the Mothers' Pension Law), is of special interest. Illinois now gives a pension to worthy mothers who are unable to support their children, instead of sending the children to a state institution.
The first session will meet, according to the program, in snow hall Thursday evening. From seven to eight will be spent in registering in order that arrangements may be made for the expedition work of the several organizations. Starting at eight o'clock the three societies will hold a joint session, with Chancellor Frank Strong presiding. Addresses will be given by Sunny Surrey president of the Kansas Conference of Charities and Corrections, udge Roy T. Osborne, president of the Association of Probate Judges; and Judge C. A. Smart, president of the Kansas State Society of Criminal Law and Criminology.
The sessions of these meetings will be held in Green hall, Snow hall, and possibly some of the night sessions will be held in chapel.
MARION GREEN IN RECITAL
TONIGHT AT FRASER HALL
Noted Baritone Will Render Varied Program Including Selections From Haydn, Verdi, Handel
Marion Green, baritone, who gives a song recital tonight in Fraser hall, is one of the leading concert singers of the country. He visited Lawrence about a year ago and was the star attraction at the meeting of the State Music Teachers' Association at that time.
Mr. Green will render the following program:
Recit, And God Said, Let The Water; Aria, Rolling in Foaming Billows, (Crasation), Haydn; Aria, Bercusee (Louise), Charpentier; Recit, Thus Saithe Lord, (Messiah), Moonlight Night, Hermann; Madrigale, Florida; She Rested By The Broken Brook (Request), Coleridge-Taylor, Auvergnat, Goodhart; A Banjo Song, Homers; Pom Porter, Romans; An Island Sheilling Song, (Songs of the Heribries), Kennedy-Fraser; Drink to Me Only With Thine Eyes, Old English; When I Was a Page (Falstaff), (Request), Verdi; Killie Krankie, (Request), Turvey; Farewell (Old Scotch), Fisher.
Wonder His Heart Wasn't Broken Too
Capt. Brownlee Had Most All the Rest of His Port Side Anatomy Pulverized.
"Football is a good game but it treated me in a strange way this season," complained Captain Brownlee today. "Whenever I was hurt at all it was on the left side of my body and if I ever play any more football it will be at left instead of right.
"In playing right end all the bumps came on the left side of my body," he explained, holding up his bandaged left hand in proof, "and now I'm through with the right side of the line."
Brownlee has not been hurt as much this year as many of the members of the team but whenever he was hurt it was on his sinister side. He had banged his hand, hurt a shoulder and received many hard bumps that caused little or no damage to him.
And all this happened to his left side.
SHARPHOOTERS MAY NOW
WIN MEDALS AS MARKSMEN
Bronze and Silver Trophies Will be Given for Excellence in Rifle Practice.
"Every good marksmans who competes in the rifle shooting that is held every Wednesday night and Saturday afternoon can win prizes for his skill in marksmanship," declared Prof. J. V. Redman, one of the executive committee of the Rifle Club.
According to the rules of the contests, every person who makes 80 points standing and 85 points prone will be entitled to a bronze medal made into a watch-fob. This will be presented by the National Rifle Association for expert shooting. The man who scores 90 points standing and 95 points prone is entitled to a bronze medal made into a watch fob. This also will be presented by the National Rifle Association for the best sharpshooter.
The fobs before mentioned will be presented to anyone who makes the required score for the first time, both to students and faculty mema morocco case will be given to the bers. A bronze medal enclosed in student who makes the highest score of the year in competition.
Intercollegiate matches from which the faculty is excluded will be shot off at an early time. "Students are showing unusually good form for so early in the season, shooting nearly in the form required to win the prizes," Captain Bennet said this morning.
SMOKER WEDNESDAY
Annual Affair Promises to be Larger than Ever
Miss Hazel Kelly, of Paola, has returned home after a short visit at the Pi Phi house.
There will be a big feed during the intermission. The stunts this year will be more varied and a big attendance should be assured. Last fall more than 400 tursits attended and this year it is expected that the number will reach eight hundred.
The football smoker is only a week off. Wednesday, December 11th, is the date set. The smoker will start at seven thirty p. m. and the price of admission is only fifty cents.
This Year
The program will consist of speeches by the Chancellor, "Uncle Jimmy" Green, and the football coaches, Mosse and Frank. The Pan-Hellenic council will put on a stunt as will the different student organizations of the University. The program will include musical, dramatic and athletic numbers. All of organizations who expect to take part in the entertainment are expected to hand in their part of the program to President Coats of the Student Council not later than next Monday.
Miss Renetta Garst, of Wichita will spend the week-end with Miss Hazel Butts, a senior in the College.
COUNTY CLUBS SHOW BUT SMALL INTEREST
More Work Necessary If We Are to Get That Appropriation
The students of the University do not seem to be interested in working for appropriations, or putting the University in close touch with every county, to judge from the attendance of the meeting of County Club presidents and secretaries in room 101, Fraser last night. A lonely little group of five or six braved it up the hill to talk over what they are going to do for the University while at home Christmas.
"This is the only student organization in the University that is working for the University interests throughout the state," said Marley Brown, president, today. "The Publicity and Extension departments, of course, are in this field, but students are not connected with these.
"The attitude over the state toward the University rests more with the students than anyone else. And if the students realized the great service this organization could be to University, they would work for it."
"We are striving to make the organization a permanent one, and it will probably be called the Central Organization instead of the Confederation of County Clubs. We will aid the students in helping the University at their homes, and endeavor to correct opinions over the state which tend to give the University a black eve."
"If every student would go home Christmas and use his personal influence for the University, our apologies down so they have been in the past."
The next meeting will probably be on Tuesday at 4:30. Notice will be given as to the place.
Right after board meeting he'd slip away to the gym, get the old janitor to unlock the pool for him, and in a few moments the porcelain walls of the pool would be splashed to the ceiling, while the green waters bobbed under the floor and the sight of a slightly gray-haired, dumpy figure that plumped into them with many wheezings and blowings.
"Watch me bring up mud," he'd shout; and he would have, too, if the bottom hadn't been of tile. "I've got everything—mud crawl, back stroke, tread water, and belly-buster. Whee!"
This boyishness "Bill" White has imitably shown in his sketches on "The Court of Boyville," where he pictures all the joys of a small boy, probably all his very own. At least, he must have often tasted the joys of the old swimming hole from personal experiences, for during his seven years regency at the University he was always an ardent and splashy visitor at the swimming pool.
"Bill" White has resigned as one of the regents of the University, so the headlines say. Too busy with politics, he says, to longer give the business of the University the time needed to do it justice. Sorry, but he had too.
Some odd bits of ancient history about "Bill" White as a student at the University in the '80s have recently come to light. According to his contemporaries he was the laziest and yet the best newspaper man in
P. S. B. WOULD ENTER THE STUDENT COUNCIL
FOR "BILL" WHITE IS ONE OF THOSE "REGULAR GUYS"
"Boundless enthusiasm, to the extent of recklessness, was his main characteristic while a student in the University," said Prof. W. Carruth, who was White's classmate in the early days. "He has lost some of his recklessness in his life, but otherwise he is still the big-hearted, jovial, easily-enthusiastic "Bill" White of his collage days."
To the Daily Kansan the mention of "Bill" White's name suggests many things, but perhaps the first thing is the fact that the man who put the "Aqua" in "Aqua Purp" and told how there was "no God of Newton" has not lost his greatest charm, his boyish enthusiasm.
Meeting Tuesday Morning to Vote on Admitting Graduate School
A mass meeting will be held after chapel by the men of the University Tuesday, Dec. 17th, to determine whether the Graduate School shall have a representative on the Student Council.
The article now reads: The Student Council shall be composed of members chosen by the male students of the different schools from their numbers, the following schools to be represented; the College, the School of Engineering, the School of Law, the School of Medicine, and the School of Pharmacy. Each school shall be represented by one member for each one hundred students, or major fraction thereof, but each school shall be entitled to at least one representative. In addition to the councilmen, there shall be a president, a vice president, and a secretary, elected at large by the students of the University.
The Graduate School has been trying to get admission to the Student Council for over two years. Enough pressure has finally been brought to bear on the council, so it will be taken on the amendment.
The amendment will read: The Graduate School should be included in the list of schools to have representatives.
CHRISTMAS TEA ALREADY
FOR UNIVERSITY WOMEN
The ladies of the faculty will give a Christmas tea tomorrow afternoon from 3 to 5:30 at Haworth hall for the young women of the University. The Christmas idea will be carried out in the decorations and serving.
the University. He could always be found at the down town newspaper office with his feet cocked up on somebody's table; but he got more news, and knew more about what was going on, than any other man on the paper.
Besides being lazy, White was as he himself admits, something of a "bone dome" as regards grades and Phi Beta Kappa scholarship while on the hill. According to his own story he never got above a "$" in all the time he was in college. In this connection it is interesting to note that in the spring of 1910 we gave the Phi Beta Kappa address to a bunch of highbrows at Columbia University, New York.
Triumphs he has had far beyond most Kansans, but in the estimation of one University professor, White never scored a more heroic triumph than he did when he finally learned to speak in public.
So we're rather fond of "Bill" White here around the University for a good many reasons. To us his name is another way of spelling "K-a-n-s-a-." We've played with his "King of Boyville," lived the boom days over again in his "Aqua Pura," and seen his first try at the new game of "clean politics" in his political sketches, "Stratragems and Evil Tales," that told "The Homecoming of Colonel Huck's" had made him better known in New York than he is in Kansas; but we would rather attribute his eastern acquaintanceship to his connection with the American Magazine.
"The first year he was a regent," says this professor, who was present, "White tried to speak one afternoon before the University Quill club, an undergraduate gathering of some twenty-five students interested in literary work. Never in my life have I seen anyone so badly stricken with stage fright. He was a wreck; he couldn't even stand; before he was through he simply had to sit down."
"Bill" White not known in Kansas? It's not so. There are too many descendants of Colonel Huck, especially around the state University, for "Bill" White to be unknown in Kansas.
And Now the P. C.
Has a Deadly Rival
Weather Man Claims Niche in Hall of Fame by Equalling Timepiece's (?) Unreliability.
"Generally fair tonight and Wednesday ___."
The student who read that statement on the weather bulletin last night went to bed with visions of a bright, sunny day for the morrow.
He awoke this morning to a fog enveloped world, turned on the light in order to make the room seem warm and cheery while he dressed, and went out into a region so wet that the very air was saturated with moisture. On the campus the buildings, at a distance of fifty yards, loomed dim and indistinct through a curtain of fog. Fraser bulked up a gigantic mountain range, with two twin cloud-enveloped peaks rising high. Buildings farther away were lost in gloom.
"Generally fair tonight and Wednesday ___."
The student felt that he had been deceived. He started for the bulletin board in the Chem building to decipher the deceiver. Then he read again:
"Generally fair tonight and Wednesday, except unsettled east portion tonight; colder west portion tonight."
Elsewhere on the weather report he found this gem:
"A moderate barometric depression is centered around Winnepeg and a defied disturbance appears to be advancing from the North Pacific accompanied by rain in Oregan."
You can take that as you like, ane either lay out your lighter clothes or hasten down town to get your overcoat from pawn.
FRENCH CIRCLE TO JOIN
THE ALLIANCE FRANCAISE
Prof. De la Marre of the University of the City of New York will lecture to the University Cercle Francae, January 24. He is now secretary of the Alliance Francaise an international organization of French universities lectures in all of the large colleges and universities in this country.
"While Prof. De la Marra is here," said Professor Neuenwander of the romance language department today, "the Cercles Francise of the University will probably join this larger organization. If it does, we will be from Paris who will visit our club. The French Clubs of the Universities in the east are all members of the Alliance Francise."
LAW
SCRIM FRIDAY
Gridiron Warriors Will Be Guests of Honor at Fraternal Aid Hall
The tenth annual Law Serim痕 will be held Friday evening, December 6, in Fraternal Aid hall. This is one of the two exclusive law functions of the school year and is given to the graduating seniors in honor of our football warriors.
Besides the football squad consisting of thirty-two men, the guests of honor will be the members of the faculty of the School of Law and their wives, Coach and Mrs. Mosso, Coach Frank, Manager, and the members of the supreme court of Kansas and their wives.
"The affair will be formal as in past years," said "Bob" Campbell, who is overseeing the plans for the Scrium, "but the taboo is placed on flowers and we are also discouraging the use of cabs.
"A five course dinner will be served during the evening. The decorations will be elaborate and all appropriate for the guests of honor."
The University faculty has 175 members, but the number of students to each teacher is larger than in almost any other university.
DOMINOS TO PRESENT "RED ROSE DIAMOND"
Send the Daily Kansan home.
The music will be furnished by Ray Hall.
Annual Musical Comedy Will be Given Probably Early in February
TRYOUT IS TOMORROW NIGHT
Henry C. Anderson and Leon Howe Are Authors of This Year's
Production.
"The Red Rose Diamond" is the name of the musical comedy to be presented by the Red Domino Club this year. The book has been written by Henry C. Anderson, a Kansas City boy, and the music and lyrics by Leon Howe.
"The music is light and siir, and is 'raggy' enough to suit the most fastidious. The composer is an ex-
cellent player." And in several successes to his credit.
In speaking of plans for the play this year Manager Campion said: "The book of the play offers the best possibilities of any that have been presented to the club for a long time. It has a good plot, well connected, and with none of the hard situations that usually tax the abilities of the amateur actor. The prospects are much better this year than ever before. There is an abundance of good talent in school.
The Domino Club presents a musical comedy written by Kansas University students each year. The first play, given in 1910, "The Idol," was very successful. The play given last year, "Object Matrimony" was good, but the music was bad. The band had to studentlege students. The music for the play this year is "light." Hink said that he could whistle it already.
Miss Patti Haitt will direct the production and have charge of the rehearsals. She has had considerable experience in training amateurs. The club will hold a tryout for playwright play. Tuesday evening in Frasher hall, at seven o'clock There are several parts in the play that do not require a singing voice. Persons who have any taste for comic opera can have an opportunity to see it at close range by trying out for a part. The chorus will require a very large number this year. The room for the tryout will be announced in the Kansan tomorrow night.
TIGERS APPRECIATED
JAYHAWKER WELCOME
Coach Brewer Voices Missouri Sentiment in Letter to Manager Hamilton
Manager W. O. Hamilton, received a letter today from Coach Brewer, of the University of Missouri, thanking him for the hospitality shown them and the courtesy of everyone towards the Missourians.
Coach Brewer said that every person who made the trip from Missouri was more than pleased with the way he was treated.
The University Missouriian says in part: "Everywhere there were as many Missouri colors as there were Kansas colors with "M" and "K" pennants distributed evenly all over town, including many residences. Instead of the "Beat Kansas" banners, which greeted them here last year, they had as their slogan, "Welcome Missouri" and had many banners up to this effect."
In this article the University Missouriian voiced Coach Brewer's sentiments as well as the sentiment of all the Missouri students that came for the game.
John Lovett, of Hutchinson, is at the Phi Delthe house for a few days.
Fred Hesser, '10, is visiting at the Beta house.
Send the Daily Kansan home.