STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOLUME X.
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS, WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, NOVEMBER 20, 1912.
NUMBER 48.
CHANCELLOR STRONG TALKS TO FARMERS
Agriculture is Foundation Jndustry of Country, he said in Speech
AT THE INDUSTRIAL CONGRESS
Ten University Professors Taking Part in State-wide Meeting This Week in Hutchinson.
Chancellor Frank Strong opened the second session of the Agriculture and Industrial congress at Hutchinson today. Several members of the faculty of the University will address the meeting. The list includes Professors Hunter, Cady, Thorpe, Bushong, Walker, Shaad, Price, Billings, Millis, Haworth. Dr. Strong delivered the following address this afternoon:
"Agriculture is the foundation industry of our country. That it should be furthered in every possible way is not only right but necessary. The relation between the rate of production and the cost of living affects all classes of men whatever their calling. Agriculture must become in some sense a profession. While it is true that agriculture cannot be a restricted profession as law and medicine are coming to, yet in a very true sense agriculture must be professionalized. The accuracy in detail and the application of scientific principles, the reducing of the industry to wel understood laws and the application of those laws to the problems in hand are as necessary in agriculture as they are in law or medicine. For that reason the educational instruments of the state and country ought to aid in this problem and, as I view it, all of the educational institutions of Kansas from top to bottom ought to be made to bear directly upon the greatest of our industries.
Country People Moving to Cities.
Country People Moving to Cities.
The trend from the farm to the city has increased greatly in our country. It has changed the whole prospect of our rural life and many attempts have been made to remedy the difficulty. Yet we must recognize, I think, that this movement is a natural one. Perhaps it is an inevitable one. At any rate, it has been going on since the very dawn of history and all countries have gone through this stage of development. While the problems of the rural community are difficult of solution they do not present such alarming features as the problems of our city communities. What our cities would become with the infux of new blood and sound lives from the farm, it is difficult to say. May it not be possible that this infux is necessary to maintain American civilization?
People Should go From City to Farm
However this may be a compensatory stream ought to flow from the city to the farm. In the older nations no such returns from the city to the country was accomplished and inevitably decay set in. There is every reason why the balance should be maintained. It is necessary for the city and it is necessary for the country. Both would gain by it. The country especially would gain by the increase in the number of its intellectual interests, in the development of a more complex life, in the very elements that help to draw off the boys and girls to the city. It would bring to the country those who are accustomed to a more complex social development, who understand how to develop the side of life the lack of which makes the rural problem so difficult. But in order to bring to this compensatory flow there must be some change in the intellectual and industrial balance. Those who are now farmers must be turned toward the farm. Those whose lives have been in touch with the city and city problems must be given some knowledge of what country life means. It is the city school, the college and the University not primarily related to agriculture, that must be interested in agricultural problems in order that to the country may be turned a great
tide of young people, as fine and noble a body as we have in our country, who now, through no fault of their own, are being educated away from all contact with the soil.
LAWRENCE MERCHANTS
TO ATTEND BIG GAME
Lawrence merchants who keep in touch with student activities have decided to close their stores on the afternoon of the Missouri game in order that no counter attraction can be found for the game. The following merchants will close their stores from 2:30 until 4:30 on Saturday.
Obers, Winey & Arnold, Otto Fischer, Imnes, Bullene & Hackman, M. Newmark, Starkweather, Faxon-Newman, A. D. Weaver, Sheets Bouldin, Johnson & Carl, M. J. Skofstad, J. House & Son, Peckham's, Guy J. Huliszler, The Fair, B. and W. Shoe Co.
GIRLS GLEE CLUB PERSONNEL CHOSEN
Twenty-two Chosen But Lat er Will Be Reduced To Twelve
Prof. C. E. Hubach announced late this afternoon the personnel of the women's glee clug as follows: Misses Williams, Davis, Findley, Winters, Singleton, Nachtman, Foster, Stone, Preyer, Murray, Stantwaiy, Harger, Buchanan, Connell, Dunaway, Kuchera, Pitrowsky, Thornburrow, and Blair. Pauline Murray was selected as manager and Marian Bedford as pianist. The reader has not been selected.
The club will hold its first regular rehearsal Tuesday afternoon at 5 o'clock at North College. After the club has sun together a while, Professor Hubach will reduce the number to twelve, the final size of the club.
BOSTON K. U. ALUMNI
IS A LIVE ONE
In politics, in society, in commercial life, Kansas has representatives. The Kansas spirit has again been manifested in Boston. The K. U. club in Boston composed of thirty-five or forty former K. U. students had the annual banquet of the club last Friday night. The club which is purely of a social nature has five banquets a year.
At these banquets Chancellor Strong and William Allen White have spoken. Mr. J. Whitman, of the editorial staff of the Boston American is at present president of the or organization.
SMALL CAPS TO GO
After Turkey Day Freshmen May Again go back to Civilized Ways
That freshmen may discontinue the diminutive headgear after the Thanksgiving holidays was decided at the meeting of the Student Council last night. Notice will be given when the small caps must again appear.
In speaking of the action of the council this morning, President Coats said that freshmen should be warned against making a mistake in the state stated. "All first year men," said Coats, "must wear the distinctive cap to the game Saturday. Blankets will be on hand for the benefit of any one who fails to live up to the rules."
It has been announced that William E. Rice '08, member of the famous football team of that year, and who was recently elected County Attorney of Lincolnshire, has married to Miss Jocelyne McCay of Perry, Oklahoma, this month.
FOOTBALL STAR TO BE MARRIED
Send the Daily Kansan home.
SWAT THAT
GIVEN LANT
SCARE
AND THIS WAS MY OUR FORE-
CAST ON ORIGINAL GAME
JINX
WHAT HAPPENED
GUT THIS IS WHAT
HAPPENED
THEN WE PREDICTED THIS FOR NEB.
Send the Daily Kansan home
AND THIS HAD TO HAPPEN
In the University of Kansas 63.3 per cent of the students are church members, and 89 per cent have religious preferences and are church attendants.
BUT HOPE SPRINGS
ETERNAL
SHEPPARD EXPECTED QUILL CLUB CHOOSES TO STAR FOR TIGERS 20 NEW MEMBERS
His Kicking Is Looked Upon as Second to "Ted"
A clown and a musing stunt was given by the German Verein yesterday afternoon in Fraser Hall. The entertainment consisted of a series of shadow pictures, which were thrown upon a screen while poems and songs were being read. The "Loriel," "Frederick Barbarossa," and "Hans and Lissel" were the most novel of the performances given.
Hackney
Columbia, Mo., Nov. 19—Missouri's hopes took a big rise this afternoon with the return of backfull Sheppard. Sheppard in addition to being a great ground gainer is the possessor of an educated toe. In last night's scrimage he proved his worth as a booter by consistently kicking goals from the 48-yard line.
Coach Brewer is relying on him to score if the Tigers find the Kansas offense too strong for touchdowns. The student body looks to Sheppard to prove himself a second "Ted" Hackney and are expecting to repeat the famous Roper victory.
A GERMAN VEREIN HUNT
But four of the regulars were in last night's scrimmage, the majority of the men spent the evening in running signals and practicing trick plays. Very little work will be on the program the rest of the week as the Tiger coaches are afraid of their men going stale.
May be More Appointments to Club Made
Later
Twenty undergraduates have been chosen for membership in the Quill club, honorary literary society.
They are Rhea Wilson, Lola Eaton Mrs. Grace Thompson, Helen Rose, Eunice Pleasant, Loula Cummings, Caroline Greer, Harlan Thompson, Francis Powell, Frederika Hodder, Horace Steele, Wallace Magathan, Charles Stienmeier, Guy von Schriltz, Helen Hofgisgen, Earnarc Leisy, Asher Hobson, Herbert Flint, Helen Heys, and Miriam Smyth.
New members are chosen from among the upper classmen recommended by the faculty of English or who by submitting satisfactory manuscript to the club or the Oread Magazine show their interest and ability in writing.
"We still have a number of prospective members in view who have not yet submitted work or whose manuscripts have not been examined by the membership committee," said Robert Sellars, chairman of the membership committee, "We have an unusually large number of available students to choose from this term and another election will be held in the near future."
Mrs. J. H. Butts and daughter Madeline, of Wichita, will come Friday to spend a few days at the Pi Phi house.
Fred Smithmeyer, '11, will come home for the Kansas-Missouri game. He is now working in Emporia.
Miss Marinian Weir, of Topeka will spend the week-end here a guest of Geneviève Herrick, a sophomore in the College.
A COLD DAY FOR MIZZOU
In Spite of Prospects of Ideal Weather for Saturday.
Unless J. Pluvius or Jack Frost interferes with the atmospheric festivities of this community, the weather will continue to be fair and propitious. "It's an evil wind that blows nobody good," and the steady stiff breeze that is continually whirling about the corners of the University buildings has already brought tidings of the Missouri defeat.
Prof. H. P. Cady has declined to change his former statement that Saturday will be an extremely cold day for somebody.
All Butter Students Come.
Butler county students are requested to meet Thursday evening at 7:30 o'clock in Myers hall to organize a Buler county club.
NEBRASKA GAME SCARES TIGERS
Leave Columbia Tonight for Some Unknown Hotel in Kansas City
By V. W. Talley.
Columbia, Mo., Nov. 19.—Kicking is being greatly emphasized in the Tiger camp now. The coaches think that their scoring machine is working well now and they are hoping to increase its efficiency by some good kicking. The most likely kickers are Sheppard, a fullback, McWilliams, a quarterback and Mills, an end. Sheppard, especially has been showing well lately, both in punting and drop-kicking.
Reports of the Kansas-Nebrusa game have somewhat loosened the supreme confidence of Tiger rooters for the contest Saturday. The tendency here has been to scout at the Jayhawkers, but if reports of the Kansas game are true there is nothing more to coaches realize this and they are driving the team to the limit, working them until far after dark.
All the players are in good condition except Dunkel, a substitute fullback, and Groves, a lineman who was injured in the Drake game. Dunkel broke his shoulder and there is but an outside chance of him being used. He still limping and may not be in the game, but did the other men are in tinted shape.
The Tigers will leave Columbia Wednesday and will go to a hotel in Kansas City, whose location no one knows except Coach Brewer. About twenty men will make the trip.
RECITAL LAST NIGHT
Dean Skilton Gave Second Faculty Organ Recital before Appreciative Audience
The second faculty recital of the School of Fine Arts was an organ recital last night at Fraser hall by Dean Skilton assisted by Professor Hubach. One feature of the program was a new composition of Dean Skilton. Professor Hubach sang edgar Kelley's famous setting of Poe's poem "Israelf" one of the greatest songs of modern times but rarely heard on account of the difficulty of the piano part which was played by Professor Preyer. The following program was rendered: Fantasie in G major, Bach; Sanata No. 5, Mendelssohn; song "Israelf," Kelley; Prelude to "The Prodigial Son," The Little Shepherd, Ballet, Debussy; Melody, Skilton; Scherzo, Sparks; Intermezzo, Wolf-Ferrari; From "The Jewels of the Madonna;" Toccat, Fleuret.
There are seventeen new "K" men at the University of Kansas. The members of the Mens' Student Council appeared today fith their official buttons. The badge is made of oxidized silver with a "K" in the center. Around the edge are the words, "Mens' Student Council," with the year at the bottom.
SIWASH COLLEGE WILL VISIT MOUNT OREAD
George Fitch, Chancellor and P. S. B. Thereof, to Address Journalists Friday
HE'LL HEAR THE TIGER WAIL
accompanied by Wife and Ole Skarjsen, Well-known Writer to View Campus Friday and Saturday
Sivash College will visit the University of Kannas this week.
Fitch, who is one of the best known of the present day writers, in a letter received this afternoon, accepted an invitation to speak before the department of journalism Friday. The time of the address will be announced later. He will be accompanied by his wife, who was Clara G. Lynn, a K. U. student from 1895 to 1898, and a member of Kappa Alpha Theta.
George Fitch, chancellor and undergraduate body of the institution, will arrive on Mount Oread Thursday night, address the students in the department of journalism Friday, and crouch on the bleachers Saturday at the Kansas-Missouri game with as his brave assistant as he ever did in the brave pursuit of his goal down the Siwash field with eleven giant opponents dragging on his neck.
While in Lawrence, Mr. and Mrs.
Fitch will be entertained by the seeralty.
And the lovers of his love.
EXTRACTS EPINEPHRIN FROM WHALE GLANDS
E. R. Weidline Publishes Results of Work in Connection with Grenfall Fellowship
"The present method of extracting the epinephrin, a valuable stimulant for increasing blood pressure, from the whale is far superior to any method before used," writes Edward R. Weldl-Industrial and Engineering Chemistry of the American Chemical Society for September.
"The object of this experiment," said Mr. Weidlin, "is a study to find the ductless glands of deep sea mammals, especially the whale, in order to find the epinephrin content of the suprarenal glands. These glands are very large, about fifty times larger than the glands obtained from cattle. About. 2 of 1% of the epinephrine was obtained from the moist glands. This means a yield from the whale of about two and a half grams of epinephrine, which is valued at $120, about one-sixth of the value of the whale at present.
"In a medicinal way, the epinephrin obtained from the whale was found to be superior to the commercial product. The epinephrin prepared by this new process increases the blood pressure to a much greater extent than the ordinary commercial product. It has been so freed from impurities that it will not have the injurious effect that is so often used in comparison with preparations. In experiments with seventeen cats, the epinephrin rise was not followed by an after depression which was apparent with the commercial epinephrin."
The fellowship under which Mr. Weidline conducted this experiment was established by Governor Stubba, in honor of Dr. Wilfred T. Grenfall in 1910, in order to investigate the ductless heart. He was also in Labrador and Newfoundland and was able personally to obtain the desired material from the whale.
"This investigation was for the advancement of science," declared Mr. Rohr or that reason all results are published so as to benefit science in general."
Lawrence Pears, a sophomore in the College last year, will spend the week-end here.
John Alcorn, of Ponca City, Okla. will spend the week-end here a guest at the Sigma Nu house.