UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
State Historical Society
VOLUME X.
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS, MONDAY AFTERNOON, SEPTEMBER 30, 1912.
NUMBER 8
EXPERTS CONDEMN VACCINE FOR HORSES
University Scientists Say Vaccination Is no Cure for Fatal Horse Malady
NO GERMS HAVE BEEN FOUND
Experiments Show The Cause of the Disease to be Forage Poisoning Conference of Experts Today
Vaccination of horses as a cure for, or as a preventative of, the disease that is ravaging Kansas is worse than no remedy at all because it is misleading farmers as to the proper treatment for their horses.
"Why vaccine?" asked Dr. W. K. Trimble, pathologist with the University commission. "No pathogenic germ has yet been brought forward by anybody. And it is the height of a germ that is not in evidence."
No Germs Present.
This is a statement issued today by Prof. S. J. Hunter, in charge of the University of Kansas Research Laboratory at Ness City.
"Again," says Prof. Hunter, "We have the figures which show that the mortality among vaccinated horses is more than that among unvaccinated.
"The disease is not caused by worms, nor is it in spinal meningitis, nor is it Bornea's disease. As we have said all along it is caused by forage poisoning, a disease found in 15 states, and in evidence to some extent every year, and wherever horses are placed on reduced rations of clean feed with plenty of pure watr, the disease disappears."
A conference of experts was held in Topeka this afternoon at 2 o'clock.
TOPEKA GOING AFTER UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL
Chancellor Strong Says Rosedale was Decided as Permanent Site By Board of Regents.
Topeka, Sept. 29—A committee appointed by the Topeka Commercial Club today recommended the issuance of $35,000 in municipal bonds for the purpose of securing a site for the relocation of the K. U. hospital in Topeka, and recommended a similar bond issue of equal amount to the county commissioners. In all probability the hospital location will be changed by next winter's legislation.
“PETE” HEIL'S SQUAD
LOSE TO BURLINGTON
Deaf and Dumb Left Tackle of Vis
iors Spoils Heart Chamber-
Cham.
"Pete" Heil, former Kansas star,
present mentor of the Topeka Highs,
met his first set back as an instructor
last Saturday when the Burlington
team walked away with the game by
a 14 to 0 score. Heil used nearly
his whole squad but was unable to
stop the visitors. Reinhard, a deaf
and dumb left tackle made both runs
for Burlington.
Chancellor Strong, when asked about the above report from Topcka, said, "The report about the relocation of the Hospital is without foundation so far as we are concerned. Rosedale was definitely decided upon as the permanent location of the Hospital, and the Regents are satisfied with that."
SOMETHING SOMEWHERE
SHOOK OUR SEISMOGRAPH
Needle Vibrated This Morning Tune of Earthquake Seven Thousand Miles Away, Says Prof. Cady.
SECURES EMPLOYMENT FOR MANY STUDENTS
The university seismograph reported early this morning an earthquake some seven or eight thousand miles distant. It began about 3.15 a.m. and lasted for about an hour and a half. Prof. H. P. Cady said that the shock was not a very severe one.
Carl Cannon, editor of the 1912 Jayhawker and formerly managing editor of the University Kansan is engaged in the real estate and loan business in San Diego, Cal.
Y. M. C. A. Finds Jobs for 98 Applicants to Employment Bureau
STOCKWELL MAKES A REPORT
Gives Detailed Account of Work on Bureau During Months of July, August, and September.
Fifty-nine permanent jobs have been secured for students of the University this year by the employment bureau of the University Y. M. C. A. Temporary jobs for thirty-nine others have also been placed and of the 146 men who registered with the bureau are only forty-eight for whom no work has been secured.
A report which has just been given out by Roy Stockwell, secretary of the association covering the work of the bureau from July 1st to Sept. 30th, shows the distribution of jobs. It is as follows:
Secured work independent of the bureau, 23.
Placed by the bureau directly;
washing dishes, 9; choring, etc., for
room, 4; waiting tables, 11; stewards
at clubs, 3; office man, 1; printing, 3;
cooking, 2; gardening, 2; soda
fountain, 1; delivery wagon, 1;
miscellaneous, 1. total, 59.
The remaining 87 names still on the active list are distributed as follows: Men for whom no work has been secured, though in most cases same attention has been given, 48; men given odd jobs of various kinds, 25; men now working but who want to work in other places but not accepting, 7; men permanently placed but losing the place, 2, total 87.
During this period, the openings for men in work both temporary and permanent, have numbered 88. This number is distributed as follows:
Temporary positions filled: Cleaning machinery, 1; mowing lawns, etc; 14; beating rugs, washing windows, cleaning house, 12; washing dishes 1; waiting tables, 1; moving furniture; 3; distributing advertising matter, 1; canvassing; 2; work on golf links, 2; delivery man, 1; picking apples, pears, etc.; 3; total positions filled, 77.
Places for which no men have been supplied: Jobs withdrawn before men could be secured, 2; places filled by men outside before the bureau could secure a man 3; work at impossible hours: dairy hands, 2; drug clerk, 2; places for which no men have yet been found: Business manager for laundry, 1; colored table waiter, 1; total positions unfilled, 11.
Second Tryout for Glee Clul Will be Tomorrow Night in Fraser Hall
A SCARCITY OF SINGERS
Every student in the University has an equal chance to make the Glee Club this year and the demand for good singers is urgent. Since only four members of last year's club are back there are many places to be filled and as yet no one is certain of a position on the club, which will, more than likely, make the same trip to California, as last year.
The second tryout will be held tomorrow night at 7 o'clock in the chapel of Fraser hall. All students are urged to come to this meeting with some music that they are familiar with. Manager Campbell is anxious to keep up the reputation of the club and assures the aspirants that they will have a fair opportunity.
Remember: Tuesday night in the
chapel of Fraser hall at seven o'clock.
"K." Books Going Fast.
The "K." books which have finally arrived at the Y. M. C. A. are in great demand and are going fast.
At the present time 444 have been driven out to students who have applied at the office in Myers hall.
Send the Daily_Kansan Home.
FRESHMEN FROLIC HUNGRY STUDENTS TO HEARTS' CONTENT FIND NO CAFETERIA
Y. W. C. A Pronounced Excellent Entertainers by All Who Attended the Affair
Everyone of the three hundred girls who attended the annual Freshman Frolic given by the W. W. C. A. in the gymnasium Saturday night went away with nothing but praise for the girls who were responsible for the affair, as entertainers.
The main object of the Frolic was to get every freshman girl acquainted with every other member of her class, and the officers of the Y. M. C. A. are highly gratified with the results.
The evening was spent in entertainments of various sorts, the first of which was a series of four playlets, staged under the direction of Fredrika Hodder "A Drama in A. B.C"; "A Furniture Pantomime," "A Daughter of the Shepherdess," and another short play, which had no name were the plays given.
Send the Daily Kansan Home
A jack-o'-lantern parade was a pretty feature of the evening. The girls formed a single line and paraded about over the campus singing "The Blue" and other college songs, and giving the "Rock Chalk" vell.
After the girls returned to the gym, a Virginia reel was given and light refreshments served.
A Sewing Room Has Claimed the Once Popular Eating Place
"There are no present prospects for a cafeteria so far this year," said Dr. Edna Day this morning, in speaking of the chances for reviving last year's popular University eating place. "The matter of continuing it this year was left with the alumni, who took no action. Moreover, the two girls who undertook the management of it last year are not in school now. We have no room for a cafeteria now either."
The cafeteria room has been turned into a sewing room.
The old cafeteria room is nowly painted, with slick, varnished floors that look good enough to dance on. The lunch counter is replaced by a sewing table, the coffee stand by a glass-windowed cupboard.
FRESHMAN CO-EDS HUSKY
Two Records Broken Already by the First Year Amazons
There are two hundred freshman girls already enrolled in gymnasium work this semester. Dr. C. H. Johnson, in charge of the classes believes the year will be the most successful set. The new girls have already broken two records, those for strength of the grip and the extensors.
THEY STARTED BUILDING K. U. IN 19,998,088 B. C.
Several of the buildings on the campus, notably Robinson gymnasium, Marvin hall, Haworth hall, Spooner library, the Museum, the Chemistry and Pharmacy building, and Fower Shops, are constructed in great part of Oread limestone, which is taken from a quarry west of Wartburg. In many cases these Kansas University buildings were the fultihina, brachiopods, gastrapodes, cephalopods, and various other pods who lived in the shallow sea which covered this region in an age when this globe was much younger. The bodies of these small organisms were deposited in the bottom of the sea and the lime or calcareous matter, formed this stone. The time required for this process was incalculably long, but in that age time was of little concern. In many of the rocks the structure of these creatures is preserved and an examination of these will show them very plainly. The fossils to be seen are all small ones, the occasional skeleton of a fish being the largest, for the Pennsylvanian, the age when these deposits were made, is so remote in the world's history that the huge monsters which inhabited this earth in prehistoric times had not yet come to being. The white stone from which Snow hall, Blake hall, and parts of Fraser hall are constructed, comes from Cottonwood Falls and belongs to the same age. It is a limestone and also shows traces of fossils.
That work on the buildings of Kansas University may have begun twenty million years ago or at a date even more remote is the opinion of W. H. Twinhoe, assistant professor of the department of geology and mineralogy. The University catalog fixes the date of the first building as 1866, but Professor Twenhofle says that work on the stone of which the buildings are constructed was begun thousands of centuries before the historic era.
But don't look for fossils in the upper walls of Green hall or the new Administration building, advises Professor Twenhofe.
They are brick.
TO BROADEN SCOPE OF OREAD MAGAZINE
A Real Student Book Covering All University Activities Being Planned
A DOUBLE OFFER IS MADE
Daily Kansan and Magazine Will be
Given to Students For a Year
For $2.25
Aside from these special features, much space will be devoted to short-stories, verse and art work, contributed by university students. The magazine belongs to the students, and any man or woman in the University may publish articles and uread to contribute articles to the magazine. The publication is under the supervision of the Quill Club of the University.
For $2.25.
The University Daily Kansan and The Oread Magazine have combined in a clubbing offer of $2.25 for both publications. This offer is made in order to get the two student University publication in the hands of as many students as possible at the lowest possible cost. And to make it possible for each student to get in touch with the only two publications which deal directly with himself and his college life.
CHANCELLOR AT SALINA
Addresses First Banquet of Country Club on "Education and Business"
The book will still remain a quarterly publication but will be put entirely on the basis of a school book, breaking away from the strictly literary form. There is to be a department for the news of each school of the University, making every issue a comprehensive review of the chief intervening events of the schools of law, engineering, science and the Graduate School. Athletics will be played up in a special department and will be one of the big features of the magazine.
Chancellor Frank Strong was the principal speaker at a banquet given by the Salina country club Saturday attended by more than 100 guests.
The student body of the University are at last assured of a real student magazine, a publication which will have for its scope all schools of the University, and all phases of life upon the campus. At a meeting of the staff of the Oread Magazine, Friday afternoon definite plans were made for the complete reorganization of the magazine.
The subject of his address was "Education and Business."
"We are accustomed to think of our own age as the greatest and that there has no great age before us," declared Dr. Strong. "We are mistaken. There have been great ages before. We think of our administration as great. It is, but we cannot study law but we have to study the Roman administration and Roman law. We talk about our engineering. We forget the great engineering feats of the ages before. We talk of good roads. Yet I do not think that today we build roads as the Romans did, roads that will last two thousands years.
"But at that time they did not have two things that we have now. First, the Christian religion and our modern educational system.
"Kansas University has three features: first, it is the great center of the intellectual activities of the state; second it is a research center and third is the state service work."
GREEK LETTER GIRLS ANNOUNCE PLEDGES
In conclusion, he pointed out that the periments involved in experiments pertained as universities.
Ralph Yeoman, president of the Y. M. C. A., was called to his home in Kingman, Kans., Saturday morning by the death of his mother.
Send the Daily Kansan Home.
Forty-eight Girls Receive Invitations from Sorority Bid Wagon
SATURDAY WAS PLEDGE DAY
All Entertainment For Rushhees Ended on That Day And Colors Pinned on Selected Girls.
Forty-eight girls were pledged Greek letter acrivations in the University.
The following are the names of
the books in which the sororities announce
as plaques.
Pi Beta Phi--Margaret Stevenson,
Kansas City; Marion Osborne, Wichita;
Helen Hursberg, Kansas City;
Helen Case, Wichita; Dorothy Mathews, Kansas City; Alice Coors, Las Vegas, N. M.; Pearl Cox, Wichita; Dorothy Darlington, Kansas City; Mary Atkinson, Lawrence; Grace Toelner, Tonganoxie; Lillian Smith, Kansas City; Henry Urich, Kansas City, Kan., and Ruth Pearis, Lawrence.
Kappa Alpha Theta—Emily Foster, Independence, Kas; Helen Cotter, Kansas City; Florence Clark, Independence, Kan; Jane Carter, Kansas City; Elise Wilhelmi and Emmi Wihlmelt, Lawrence; Katherine Stine, Kansas City; Jessie Blakey, Pleasanton, Maria Shade, Oskaloosa.
Chi Omega—Helen Crane, Kansas City; Lula Fina, Lawrence; Helen Sapp, Galena; Pauline Finday, Richita, Vera Knodlauch, Wichita; Harris, David Bosis, Davis Isle, Olathe; Hazel Burgera, Olathe, and Elise Pratt, Lawrence
Kappa Kappa Mamma -Mary Pror-
lawrence; Gamma Kelly, Kansas
City; Eula Davis, Hutchinson; Genei-
veie Morris, Lawrence; Agnes
Smith, Seneca; Nina Kanaga, Lawr-
ence; Charlotte Smart, Ottawa;
Kathleen Winters, Kansas City,
and Hazel Clark, Kansas City.
Alpha Delta Phi—Liculate Sage, Concordia; Lena Swack, Abiline; Edna Hyre, Lawrence; Veda Rankin, Paolia; Madeline Ashton, Lawrence; Margaret Cornforte, Lawrence and Florence Gettys, Concordia.
NEW APPOINTMENTS AT Y. M.
Stirkland Made Publicity Agent and Hobson, Social Service Chairman.
The appointment of Charles Strickland as chairman of publicity to fill the position made vacant by the failure of Howard Morgan to return to school this fall has been announced by Secretary Stockwell. Asher Hobson also was appointed by President Nalphe Yeoman, in countenance of his retirement, the social service committee. A successor to Charles Younggreen as chairman of the social committee soon will be appointed.
At a meeting of the association next month a vice president will be elected as successor to W. L. Butler, who is not in school this year.
Ammons in Kansas City.
Contrary to the report that Earl ("Rock Crusher") Ammons is helping coach "Southwestern" comes the news that the big full back is now in Kansas City working on a weekly newspaper. Ammons is said to have newspaper ambitions, and was a prominent contributor to last year's Oread magazine.
Faculty in Snow Hall.
The general faculty meeting will be held tomorrow after noon in Snow hall instead of Blake hall as was reported. The meeting will be held at 4:30 o'clock.
Dr. Sudler In Chapel Tomorrow.
Dr. M. T. Sudler, associate dean of the School of Medicine, will speak at the chapel services tomorrow. His subject, which will be "Student Health" should be of interest to every student in the University.
The ladies of the faculty will give a reception Friday, Oct. 4, at 8 o'clock in the gymnasium in honor of the new faculty members and their wives.
Send the Daily Kansan home.