STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOLUME X.
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS, TUESDAY AFTERNOON, OCTOBER 29, 1912.
NUMBER 32.
STATE FISH HATCHERY FORMALLY DEDICATED
Chancellor Frank Strong Christened the Ponds This Morning
PROF. DYCHE DEVISED PLAN
If Farmers Raise One Mess of Fish a Week State Will be Saved One and a Quarter Million Dollars
Pratt, Kan., Oct. 92—The state o Kaansas formally took possession of the largest fish hatchery in the world at top o'clock this morning when a stream of water released by Chancellor Frank Strong, leaped into a breeding pond at Pratt. Devised by Lewis Lindsay Dyche, professor in the University of Kansas and State Fish and Game Warden, and constructed by the University regents, the culture plant, will place fish as a common article of diet upon every table in an inland state.
Many Attend Dedication.
Professor Dyche, State Architect Charles Chandler, the members of the Board of Regents, Chancellor Strong, Pres. H. J. Waters, and scores of other guests at the dedication exercises saw the stream freed from a giant pipe speed into the first receiving pond and from there distributed to the other basins in the system. Taken from the South Ninesac river below the city of Pratt, the water had been allowed to flow through miles of cresses and mosses before entering the 21-inch conduit to the hatchery so that it carried in its clear depths plenty of vegetable food for the fish that will begin life in the ponds.
Eighty-three pools in which the fish will be separated according to size, stretched according to an area of 65 acres gave an indelible impression of the huge proportions of the University undertaking. Each pool spreads over a basin of from one-third to one-half acre. Scattered through this scientific but intricate pattern will be placed wooded islands that will enhance the hatchery so that the grounds will become one of the beauty spots of the state. The contract has already been let for a $22,000 library, office, and laboratory building to complete the equipment of the project.
Stock Fish to be Supplied.
To supply brood stock fish for the streams and ponds of Kansas will be the chief object of the hatchery. A majority of the waters of the state have already been depleted of fish and to stock these will be the immediate work of Professor Dyche and his assistants. A campaign will start at once to induce the farmers of the state to raise fish as well as hogs. Young fish and eggs will be shipped to every citizen who will take the trouble to ask for them and complete instructions on raising them will be distributed in hatchery bullets. All that is necessary to start raising fish on Kansas farms is a small quarter acre pond.
The economic importance of the fish hatchery to the state was pointed out by a survey of aquaculture.
"If I can get each farmer in the state to raise but one mess of fish a week, it would mean one and a quarter million dollars to Kansas a year," declares Professor Dyche. "When the farmers come to spend half as much time with their fish as they do with their hogs, the fish hatchery will be one of the most important activities of the state."
Scientist to Speak.
Prof. S. W. Williston, head of the department of paleontology at the University of Chicago, will lecture at the University December 6 and 7, under the auspices of Sigma Xi. One of these lectures will be of interest to the general public; while the other, because of its scientific nature, will be more for the benefit of the members of the society. Both lectures will be illustrated, and will deal with the Professor's own research work upon the land animals, which inhabited this continent in the earliest ages.
Professor Williston was a member of the faculty of Kansas University from 1800 until 1902, and was founder of the Medical School. He has been connected with the department of paleontology of Chicago University for the last ten years.
MAY TEACH ENGINEERS
HOW TO RUN AN ATUO
"There is some talk of a course in "Automobile Engineering" being introduced at K. U." says Prof. P. F. Eriksson of the civil engineering.
"To be sure all those costs cost money, but we already have a course in gas engines, and applied mechanics that would come under that head, so it would not necessitate an entire new course.
"And perhaps if the automobile study is successful the next will be 'aviation engineering.'"
ATCHISON COUNTY CLUB
TO MEET WEDNESDAY
The Atchison County Club will meet Wednesday night at 8:00 P. M. in room 110 Fraser Hall for the first time. "All Atchison County students are urged to be present," declared Olin Wede, in order to further its organization."
PROF. WILCOX TO GIVE COURSE OF LECTURES
Will Talk on Subjects of Gree Art and Life Once A Month
Professor Wilcox will give a course of seven illustrated lectures on Greek Art and Life once a month on Friday afternoons at 3:30 in the Greek room No. 26, Fraser Hall. The dates will be as follows:
November 1st, The Greek Temple. December 6th, The Acropolis of Athens
January 10th, Olympia and the Great Drama.
March 7th, The Rise of Greek Sculpture.
April 4th, The High Tides of Greek Sculpture.
May 2nd. Greek Vases.
These lectures will be open to all members of the University and the general public, and all are invited.
BAND TO PLAY RAGTIME
Alexander and his Friends will be Among Marine Band Selections.
That the U. S. Marine Band would satisfy lovers of routine by playing at least one rythmical selection was assured by a telegram received here late this afternoon from the band management. This promise was obtained in response to a demand of Mozart Musical the same month as the year the proclamation in addition the usual quota of high grade music which his band offers.
"We are glad to satisfy the requests of our patrons," was the comment of Prof. D, C. Croissant, who has charge of local arrangements for the concert. "We feel sure that every one will be highly pleased by this concert by the nations band, and feel that we have been fortunate in securing this band for a concert here. The Mozart Musical会社 will have some real music whether
The president of the Mozart Musical Club was highly delighted when told of the outcome of the matter, and gave vent to joy by a lively air on the piano. "We shall attend the concert in a body," he said, and shall do everything right to ensure that it goes along. Our club considers this the biggest musical event of the year."
they appreciate classical or the so-called popular music."
The advance sale of seats is exceptionally good, according to Professor Croissant, and a full house is expected. The seats were placed on sale only yesterday and are being handled at the University postoffice, at Rowland's, at the University Book Store, at Smith's, at St. John's and at Seel's. At the suggestion of a down-town business man the business section of Lawrence will be canvassed by the members of the Women's Student Government Association.
Prof. R. A. Schweiger has been out over the state the last few days on a speaking tour. He spoke at Emporil, Independence, Chanute, and Parsons.
Mr. Paul Kimball of Parsonsf Kansas is visiting friends at the Phi Gammr Delta House.
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HERE'S WHY TREES ARE LEAVE-ING NOW
Mystery of Falling Campus Foliage Explained; Tissue Decomposes
WHY DO THE LEAVES FALL?
This Isn't a Conundrum—There's a scientific Reason
for it.
"In the fall of the year, after the leaves have performed their natural function of storing up material in their protoplast and supplying it to the tree body, a decomposition of the tissues at the joint of the leaf and the tree takes place and the leaf in the first dying stage is cast off," says Mr. Larry Pease, demonstrator in botany at the University of Kansas. The tree's three limbs has stored up waste products in its growth and these products do not go into the tree as food but are cast off with the leaf.
"The leaf in its green stage is the manufacturing plant for the tree. It collects in its cells the food products necessary for the tree's growth. In the fall after the tissues have decomposed and the supplying quality has been cut off, the leaf turns from its original color of green to that of yellow, red, and etc., and later to a dirtier texture. At the stage of life the leaf goes through; the green showing the normal health and growing stage, the bright color showing the first dying stage, and the brown marking the death.
WILL PARCELS POST LAW REDUCE RATES
"When the manufacturing quality of the leaf is cut off, the material stored up together with the waste products and the dying of the cells causes the leaf to change its colors."
Prof. Boynton Says That I Will Take Time to Determine Real Effect
"Whether the general public will be greatly benefited by the new parcels post law which goes into effect January 1, 1913, is a question yet to be determined," the statement of Prof. A. J. Boynton, today in discussing the new law. "The parcels post is a new departure for the government and is an important of an experiment for us. It will be some time before the real effect of the law can be determined."
Under the new law, after the first of the year, parcels not exceeding six feet in length and eleven pounds in weight can be sent through the mails. Four pounds is the present weight limit. The cost of mailing is determined by the distance and eight zones are fixed. A package weighing one pound can be sent 100 miles for five cents; 300 miles for six cents; 600 miles for seven cents; 1200 miles for eight cents; 2000 miles for nine cents; 3000 miles for eleven cents; and if you wish to send a one pound parcel farther than that it will cost you twelve cents. For each additional pound in the 100 mile zone the charge is three cents, and the rate is graduated up to ten cents for the 3600 mile zone, and twelve cents over that distance.
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INJECT DEAD GERMS INTO STUDENTS' ARMS
Dr. Boughton Gives Typhioid Vaccination Free to Forty-Eight
TREATMENT SUCCESS IN ARMY
Reduces Fatility From This Disease
RAH! RAH! ELECTORAL!
There's a college I have read about for weeks and weeks and weeks, and I've pondered on the thing so long, my blooming noodle squeaks. Electoral, I think they call it, but it's not, as you might think; a place where men are taught to fool around with tungstens on the blink. I have never seen their pennant, but I've heard their college yell, and if I am not mistaken it contains that mean word, H—. Some say that it is a night school, some a business college too, some say Woodrow was a prof there in the fall of 1902. Our Dear Ted and William Howard have been graduated there, but the only thing it taught them was to give the lie and swear. Now day by day I'm scheming, scheming, to acquire a vragent glean, of some inside information on Electrical football team. If I could only dope the lineup it would help out quite a lot, but their line of coke has got me; Tokeram! Quick! A Shot!
by 95 in 100,000 Soldiers on Whom Treatment is Tried.
Prof. T. H. Boughton of the department of bacteriology and pathology gave the anti-typhoid to forty-eight students Friday afternoon. The course of treatment consists of a hypodermic injection of dead bacilli at intervals of two weeks and is continued for a period of about eight weeks.
Professor Boughton declared today that the treatment was almost an absolute preventative of typhoid fever.
"The armies of Italy, Germany, France, Russia, Great Britain and the United States have adopted this treatment," said Professor Boughton. "It has proven most successful in the United States army where 100,000 soldiers were given the injection of bacillus. Of this number but six men succumbed to the disease. Under ordinary conditions there were sixteen times as many cases of typhoid fever in the army.
"Even if a person does take the disease while the treatment is being given, death seldom results, while without the vaccination, death usually follows in from five to fifteen per cent of the cases.
"Practically no injurious effects follow the vaccination. One hundred and twenty students of the University took the treatment last year and of these, eighty showed no ill effects what ever. The others may have suffered a little soreness in the arm where the injection was given. It is entirely unlike the small-pox vaccination."
Any student of the University may begin the treatment on Friday afternoon, between 3 and 6 o'clock in room 203 Snow hall.
MANY PUBLICATIONS COME TO JOURNALISM OFFICES
More than one hundred and fifty newspapers and magazines are now received by the department of journalism. Among these are all the leading metropolitan dailies of the country, the leading state papers, practically every college paper printed in the U. S., such weeklies as Collier's, Harper's, Leslie's, and the Independent, and the leading magazine relating to journalism and the printing industry.
The Yale News, the Harvard Crimson, and other dailies from such universities as Princeton, Cornell, Michigan, Chicago, Wisconsin, Illinois, Nebraska, and Missouri are among the college papers received. A number of college magazines, as the Widow (Cornell), the Sphinx (Wisconsin), the Chaparral (Stanford), the Siren (Illinois), the Lampoon (Harpard) and the Tiger (Princeton) are also received.
There are seven New York papers, five from Chicago, three from Boston, and one or more representative papers from Philadelphia, Cincinnati, Louisville, Atlanta, Seattle, Portland, St. Louis, Springfield (Mass.), Washington (D. C.), San Francisco, and Kansas City, Mo.
Girls to Practice Hockey.
There will be a hockey practice.
Thursday from 10am to 3pm in the soccer field. All girls are required to wear middies and low heeled shoes.
Girls to Practice Hockey.
Ponce.
CIVIL ENGINEERS
ELECT OFFICERS
The Civil Engineering Society of the Engineering School held its first meeting of the year yesterday in the Chapel room of Marvin Hall. The Officers elected for the ensuing year are. President, Roy Fincy; Vice, President, Lawrence Kinnair; See, and Treas., James La Rue.
Miss Juanna Kempton, of K. S. A.C., was in Lawrence Saturday and was the guest of Mr. Russell Bracewell at the Pi Uplouse房.
Professor C. G. Dunlap will give a lecture at Horton, Kansas Friday November 1st. The subject for the lecture will be "Dickens."
Professor Carruth, the head of the German department, has just completed a census of the German students showing 600 even. Last year there were 569.
PELLAGRA PRESENTS TASK FOR SCIENTISTS
Prof. Hunter Explains Disease to Students in Chapel
Talk
"At the pellagra conference held in South Carolina last year the greatest problem to contend with was attempting to find the cause of pellegra. No prominence was given to the remedies," said Prof. S. J. Hunter in his chapel talk this morning.
"Pellagra has been a serious problem in the old country for many years. In Italy alone, sixty to one hundred thousand cases have existed. Less than thirty years ago, pellagra became known in the United States. A recent census shows that in the south, twenty-five to thirty thousand cases exist. This disease is known in over half the states in the country. "Definite symptoms arise from this disease, first a darkening of the skin similar to sunburn, then gastrointestinal pain, and finally psychiatric nervous phenomena, leading up again to spring of the year and leaves in the fall, always recurring each year.
"Two theories exist in regard to the cause of the disease; one is that pellagra is due to a toxin in the body obtained by the unusual use of corn products. Another is that it is due to an oil found in cotton seed products."
In conclusion Professor Hunter said, "The advantage in Kansas is that we have a clean slate to work upon."
OSAGE COUNTY CLUB ELECTS OFFICERS
At the first meeting of the Osage County club, held at the Acacia house last night, the following officers were elected: President, Albert Crane; Secretary, Vern Mina; secretary, Della Mavity; treasurer, Roy Stivison.
A constitution similar to that proposed by the student council was adopted. Plans for entertaining Osage county people at the K. U.-M. U. game were discussed and the president was instructed to confer with other students in particular in the University Council for a room in one of the buildings, to be used as headquarters for all county clubs.
It was voted that monthly meetings be held, and that entertainment for prospective students, and Osag county students attending other Karas colleges be given at a later date
ALLEN WAS ACQUITTED
OF FOUL MURDER
The Kent Club, the Senior Law debating society, held its first regular meeting last night in Green Hall. The case of State vs. Allen argued. Roy Davis and Glen Wisdom were the attorneys for the State, and Clifford Sullivan and Clem Ewald for the defendant. Walter Griffin was the presidem judge.
State vs Allen was a fake murder trial. Sullivan of the defence put up the strongest plea and with tears in his "voice," told of the weeping and wailing and the crying that accompanied it and so worked upon the feelings of the tury, that Allen was acquitted.
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JAYHAWKER WORKERS NAMED BY SENIORS
Annual Board Has Been Announced and Work Started on Year Book
WILL BE SIXTEEN EDITORS
Lois Harger is Associate Editor and Milton Minor Assistant—Maloy to have Charge of Art Work
The annual board for 1913 was announced today as follows:
Associate editor, Lois harry; assistant editor, Milton Minor; art editor, Henry Maloy; editor of the College, James Houghton; editor of the law school, William H. Hughes; editor of the engineering school, Charles Haibain; editor of the fine arts, Lucille Brown; editor of the School of Medicine, Elwood Sharp; editor of the pharmacy school, Nolan Fitch; editor of athletics, Hal F. Rambo; editor of the graduate, Harry C. Lehman; editor of organizations, Wm. Burkholder, editor of fraternities, Ed. Vera Atkinson; editor of the faculty, Carl Reubel; editor of dramatics, Elizabeth Dumaway.
Assistant manager of annual, H. Ross Miller.
Literary Staff: Claribel Lupton,
Phyllia Burroughs, Frederick Hodder,
Virginia Weldon, Irma Goldman,
William Williams, Williams, Hazel
Butts, Allen Wilen
Aischer Hobson, manager of annual goes to St. Louis tonight on work in connection with the annual. A meeting will be announced in tomorrow's Kansan.
GET IT LINE FOR BIG MASK BALL
Robinson Gym to be a Scene of Much Revelry Thursday Night
"The Goblin's 'll get you if you don't watch out!"
Of course you expected that to head the story about the big masque ball to be given in the Gym Hallowen' night; who of us can't recall the time out parents told us about the goblins and elves that get bad boys and girls' most at dark night, but especially when full and the Octeo frosts have made the pumpkins just right for Hallowen'en night?
Remember how you slipped around with a "punkin" as big as yourself, searing your parents "half to death" who never dreamed you were just behind that bush with a *ghostly pair of teeth* and big yellow eyes glaring out? And then, as you got older and a little meaner and used to "likings," how you'd get a tick-tack and rack all the window panes in town with a buzz-saw shriek that almost scared you yourself? Boo!
Don't suppose you ever tore up any sidewalks or ran off with any old wagons or baited the "cop"? with old apples; it was always "the other fellers" who piled the old beer bottles on the minister's front porch; you were always "home in bed" when those things happened, weren't you?
Thursday night, in the Gym, there'll be pumpkins and scarce figures, ghosts and devils, and maybe a few tick-tacks. And there'll be apples an' cider an' doughnuts (like mother used to make, of course) and maybe a big full moon drifting 'round among the rafters to complete it.
The first annual Halloween en masque dance, to be made a tradition of the University, will be held in Robinson Gymnassium Thursday night. Dance-goers will be placed in Halley's one- piece orchestra will play; that if admission is six-bits. Cut out the itney shows, forget about lessons, and limb on the band wagon.
A meeting of the Woodrow Wilson Club will be held in room 116 Fraser at eight o'clock, Wednesday night. Hon. Judge Riggs will mike a short talk. Every Wilson man in the school is urged to be present as this will probable be the last meeting before election.