THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Vol. XXIII
World Problems of Agriculture Are Solved by U. S
Other Nations Have Come to Respect America's Knowledge of Markets
(United Press)
Washington, Nov. 9.-The United States department of agriculture is fast becoming a supreme court for world agricultural problems.
South American, European and some Asiatic countries are constantly submitting their agricultural problems to the department for solution. A voluntary system of "big brother" advice has gradually been devised which helps them to understand the countries the advantages of the services and knowledge of its experts.
Complete cooperation between this country and foreign countries on crop returns and forecasts have given the American markets an enviable position in world estimates. Other countries have come to respect America's influence in the agriculture and have accepted the department's estimates without question.
Questions of economic possibilities for various plants foreign to other lands, but about which the government experts have a liberal knowledge through study and experiment have been given by virtually every foreign country;
South American countries submit principally biological problems dealing with the introduction of new and strange plants and trees adapted to the varying soils and climates of the countries.
European countries are more intercited in economic problems. With the rise of socialism, Europe is already overcrowded countries of Europe, these people are seeking the best methods of securing the best prospects for themselves in also among those so attainted.
The United States on the other hand, has mastered both with great success, due, of course, to her diversified climate and uncrowded condition.
The expensive hands of the fast devel oping countries of South America have made it easier to govern while the agricultural policy of Europe has been established for centuries and the greatest problem it faced was an a sound economic policy of production.
Of the larger countries of Asia China is the conspicuous exception Chinese agriculture is intensive rather than extensive. Rotation of crops is practiced. It might be said that the gardens are gardener's rather than farmers.
First Debate of Year Will Be With Missour
The embassy of the Argentine Republic has recently submitted to the department complete data on certain sections of that country upon which it is hoped to establish new and more suitable crops. Doctor LeBron of the Argentine department of agriculture has asked the recommendation of a specialist in agriculture in the matter. The entire situation is being studied and it is expected that a report will be made within a few days.
The first dual debate of the year will be held on Dec. 9 with the University of Missouri. The question will be whether a school should shall enter the world court of justice? Tryouts for the team which will take part in this and four other debates of the year will be held at 7:30 Tues day evening in the Little Theatre 4
Each speaker will be limited to five minutes of constructive argument and two minutes of refutation. Three faculty judges will select the team.
Troubles for the team which will debate with other schools on the Mitchell plan of national defense will be held on Thursday, Nov. 19. There will be three debates during the year on this question.
Outing Club Plans Bicycling Trip
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Outing Club Plans Bicycle Trip
"A bicycling" outing for Wednesdays
from the Outing Club for a forthcoming meeting of the Outing club held Friday afternoon in Robinson gymnasium. Plans were also made for an all-night hike up the Kaw river sometime after Thanksgiving. Several members have been added recently.
"All-Chemists" was the name recently selected in a name contest for a new organization open to matrons in chemistry, at the University of Cali
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS, LAWRENCE, KANSAS, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1925
Union Building Architects Will Meet Here Tuesday
Representatives of the architects of the Student Union building will arrive Tuesday to draw up the contract for the first section of the building, according to Sherman G. Elliot, treasurer of the K. U. Memorial Corporation.
"Mr. Wright, of Pond & Pond of Chicago, and Mr. Walker, Salina contractor, will be in town Tuesday," Mr. Elliot said, "and if Pond & Pond have architects, especially the contractor bidding on the steel work, and if the architects O. K. the sub-contractors, the contract will be signed, otherwise no award will be made until the architects overcome the contractors submitting bid."
Governor Paulen and Special Music Will Be Included on Program
All Afternoon Classes Will Be Dismissed on Armistice Day, Nov. 11
All afternoon classes on Wednesday, Nov. 11 will be dismissed in order to permit the students of the University to participate in the Armistice Day celebrations. The Chancellor's cabinet decided to adopt this action this morning, after it had previously been approved by the Senate and only will classes be dismissed in the afternoon, but Watson library will be closed from 12:30 to 5:29 p.m. Governor Ben S. Paunen will give the memorial address. The local post of the American Logion will unite with the University in celebrating the day. One hundred hands will be received for the use of legionnaires and their families. Special music is being arranged by Dean Swarthout. On the musical program will be Prof. Eugene Christie, who will sing a special number. The University band in full force will also be present and will render a number of adlections. The musical will be broadcast by KPKU.
Wednesday afternoon the local Legion will give a number of special programs to a diverse. Quite a number of University students will participate in these programs, and it is hoped that they will have a large representation on campus.
Admits Mussolini Attack
The Y. M. C. A. and the W. Y. C. A. will join in the evening and have charge of a varied program. This service will be held in the chapel of Fraser hall, Prof. E. C. Buehler, of the department of public speaking will deliver the address, the subject of which will be "Keeping Faith."
Former Adviser to Italian King Confesses Plot
(United Press)
Rome, Nov. 9. —Tiko Zamboni, exdept of the Unitary Socialists and former political advisor to the king of Italy, confessed Saturday to the plot to kill Mussolini and dethrone the Italian monarchy.
In the meantime the police tended to indicate that the plot had been widespread. Fifteen persons more or less were reported to have been arrested in connection with the plot. Twenty-four were retained for questioning. The latest arrest was made at Genoa.
Under constant grilling by the police Zambili said that he was taking a riffle in his hand to the hotel balcony from which Mussolini spoke to the armies day thru ng. He should have been sent to prison the shot and denied any accomplices.
Graduate Magazine Out in Few Days, Says Editor
The magazine itself will contain over fifty pictures and cuts. This is a good deal more than has ever been offered by the magazine, according to Elworth.
"The Graduate Magazine is on the press and will be out in 'few days,' according to Fred Ellsworth, secretary of the magazine. This magazine will have 48 pages. A feature section will be given to the New York alumni. They will have 25 pages of writings and pictures, a large collection of images to Mr. Ellsworth, is due to the fact that a large per cent of the K. U. alumni in New York are literarypeople and they have turned their attention towards making it a very inter
Religious Writings Subject of Speech Before Librarians
Mrs. Roberta McKowar
Elected President at
Wichita Session
This Year
"The Librarian and the New History," an address by Prof. Truman J. Reed of the Wichita public schools and "Recent Books in the Religious Field," an address by Rev. Harrison Ray Anderson, pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of Wichita, were the outstanding features of the second session of the Kansas Library association, according to Earl N. Manholme, D.L.M., interim president for the past year president of the Kansas Library association. He returned Friday from the three day session at Wichita.
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"Professor Reed said in substance that the new history will comprehend all the social sciences—biology anthropology and sociology," said Mr. Manchester this morning. "It was Mr. Reed's theme that students and professors should learn events rather than mere accounts of the events themselves," he said.
In his talk on recent religious books, Doctor Anderson, according to Mr. Manchester, made reference to "In the Bible," in which he references Jamins Bryan, and called it "one of the writer's greatest contributions." Doctor Anderson suggested "Pilgrim's Progress" as a book apocryphal by his former president closed his address with reference to the Bible, as the greatest of books, the return to which will be the biggest single factor in restoring the distinctive place in American life.
More than 100 librarians attended the second session of the Library association, which elected Mrs. Robert McKenaw president for the coming year. Mrs. McKenaw was vicepresident and was chosen as next year's meeting place.
Reunion Well Attended
Attendance at the K. U. alumini reunions held last Thursday and Friday were very good, according to Fred Ellsworth, secretary of the Alumni Association. Some of the meetings were held during a severe storm but in all six cities a large number took part in the program.
Six Kansas Towns Report Good Alumni Meetings
In Kansas City, Kan., one hundred and fifty people joined together to hear Chancellor E. H. Lindley and reports which reached Lawrence state that it was the best meeting ever held in that city. From Kansas City Chancellor Lindley went to Wichita with Fred M. Harris, LL B, 208, of Ottawa, and Jesse D. Cunningham, a group of alumni. About a hundred and fifty were present and on that day Wichita was having a terrible storm.
Salina had one of its best K. U. reunions on record. Dr. W, L. W. Burick was the chief speaker of the meeting and attended a number of attendees the meeting. Sixty tickets were sold for the Emporia meeting but a rain storm prevented a number from attending. Prof. F, F. W. Blackman, Harvey Lehman speak up in the meeting.
R, O. T, C. Competition Begins
Competition for the chancellor's cup,
which is awarded each year to the R.
O. T, C. unit that is adjudged the best
in the school, has begun. Allocation
is determined by awarding the cup, with the sub-
divisions of company drill and a series of
competitive drills counting some.
Coffeilleville, Eldorado and Manhattan are the three healthiest cities in Kansas. The death rate of Coffeilleville was 3.3 per cent per thousand; Manhattan had 1.6 per cent per thousand. Concordia is at the foot of the with a death rate of 18.2.
Alumni in the southern part of the state gathered at Coffeyville last Thursday evening and Dean R. A. Williams, who had offices at their University. In the western part of the state W. Y. Morgans, A. B. S. chairman of the Kan-
Roast beef and beans are favorite dishes among the students of Ohio State University.
Wire Flashes United Press
Topoka, Nov. 9—In a list compiled by Dr. Earle G. Brown, secretary of the State Board of Health, ranking Kansas cities according to mortality rates, the board figures that deaths in Lawrence total 150 in 1924, as compared to 176 in 1923, giving Lawrence a rate of 11 percent and population during the past year.
Washington, Nov. 9—America's first "double-header" in debt refounding negotiations got under way at the Treasury department today. After a joint session of the American and Roanamia debt commissions, the Treasury will meet when the American commission will meet the Italian body.
Washington, Nov. 9. — The House ways and means committee may shack $160,000,000 from the national automobile and other excise taxes and run the total reduction of the new federal tax bill up to $360,000,000, some $50,000,000 more than Secretary of the Treasury Mallon considered safe.
Chicago, Nov. 9.-Ministers of all denominations held a union meeting as a special part of the national convention of Anti-Saloon League of America. Addresses were delivered by Robert E. Speer, New York; the Reverend Joseph Vance, Detroit; and Bishop Edwin M. Hughes, Chicago
Students of K. S. T.C. Maintain Show Season for College and City
Plays Presented in Auditorium Meet Need of Emporia for Good Shows
For the past ten or twelve years the Kansas State Teachers College at Emporia has successfully maintained a theater. Emporia does not have a stage, but many students have undertaken to supply them themselves, as well as residents of the town, with good plays and concerts. The school's marked success that not only the students but the entire town looks upon the roadshow season as an established institution at the college, according to Garver, a number of the 1922 class.
The plays are presented in the auditorium of the college which is large enough to hold all who wish to attend the performances. All of the stage hands are students which helps to understand the cost of handling the productions.
All College freshmen are expected to consult their advisers between Wednesday, Nov. 11 and the Thanksgiving vacation regarding the condition of their work and their mid-semester grades. The names of all freshmen, their advisers and office hours, are posted on the bulletin board in the hall at Freshman Building. Freshmen will save on the trouble of sending for them by reporting promptly for their conference.
Notice to College Freshmen
"The success of the theater is to great extent due to the fact that the theater is not run on a money-making basis. Even if the actors are not covered on all performances, but they are usually made up on others. Losses have always been made up by the end of the season and as guarantees when it is necessary.
Plays and other numbers are booked by Frank A, Beach, head of the department of music at the Teachers College. Season tickets can not be sold as at concert courses because they are not included in Potential programs for the season are announced but some of the plays are not booked until two or three weeks previous to their presentation. There is usually one opera a year, several plays, a few musical numbers, and many songs. The plays which have been presented in recent years are: "The Circle," "Show Off," "The White Peacock," "Richilin," "The Book of Job," and "The Merry Widow." The most outstanding performances were those presented by Pavlina, Hone Chrysanthemum, Mattelti, and Winnie the Pooh who sedden book such small towns.
Paul B. Lawson,
Assistant Dean:
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Col. Mitchell Tells Court He Intends to Prove Charges
"Stormy Petrel" Through Counsel Cites List of Fifty Cases of "Bungling"
Washington, Nov. 9—Col. William Mitchell today had all of his cards on the table and told the court of generales trying him how he intended to prove "incompetence, criminal negligence, and almost treasonable administration of national defense by the war and navy departments."
Through his counsel, Rep. Frank Reid, the flying colonel, sent forth a list of 50 instances of allied bombings by U.S. officers and other mistakenes of policy and specified other grounds on which he expects to uphold his claims. They
Incompetence: the authorities that ordered and directed the fatal flight of the Shenandoah, and the almost fatal flight of the PN91 are unacquainted with aviation and competent for duties.
Criminal Negligence Cited
Criminal negligence: That the Shenandoah船 was ordered over the protects of Commander Landwineh and that ordering flight over the prois constitutes the commander constitute viminal negligence.
Almost treasonable administration of national defense by war and navy departments; That the war department was guilty of almost treasonable administration of national defense; That the war department was in Hawaii no plan for employment of air service in aeronautical protection of the island. That the war department was guilty of treasonable administration in that the air unit of the Philippines in 1829 was bounded, arrested, mistreated and nearly ousted.
The list of specifications raked the army and navy fore and aft and left severely a point of attack unopposed. Reid announced he was seriously considering requesting the court to cite the war department for contempt of court because of press releases since the trial started, accusing the department of "discussing improperly the delivery of justice in the court
*Airmen's Lives Used as Pawns* Reid said he could point definitely to 18 instances where high ranking officials of the Army and Navy departed without insisting that "false, misleading and malicious testimony to Congress commiters."
Reid charged that the action of non-flying officers in improper and unaccountable direction of the landing of planes had caused the death of one of the best pilots in the air service.
"Sending the Shamandash aloft without parachutes," Reid said, "showed that the lives of the airmen were used as paws."
Election Fraud Charget
Affidavits Allege Fraud and Demand Recount
Kansas City ... 9-Affidavit charging fraud, irregularities and miscount in the city election of last Tuesday by the "beach for Mac" committee.
The affidavits relate especially to alleged fraud in the Goldman-Jewell council race, and demand a recount. They involve 40 prescents scattered throughout the 16 wards of the city. In the election George L. Goldman, Democrat, defeated L. R. Jewell, Republican candidate for the council at least by a majority of 248 votes, giving the Democrat control of the council.
Meanwhile, Ralph S. Lathawi, one of the attorneys representing the Jaudon group, went to Independence, Mo., to appear before Judge William P. Hall to appeal for a writ of provision to prevent the election commissioner to make a recount, making a recount. The Jaudon attorney expects to serve the wrist at work.
Three Greek letter bounces, Kappa Kappa Gamma, Zeta Psi, and Pi Delta Theta, at the University of Chicago, have been used as a quarantine for infantile paralysis.
- The greatest height reached by * sounding balloons, small unmanned * balloons sent up by weather observers * to determine atmospheric conditions at high altitudes, is about 22 mils.
Good Seats Still Unsold for K. U.-M. U. Battle
There are still some good seats left in the stadium for the Kansas-Missouri game, Nov. 21, and 20 thousand bleacher seats to dr. Dr. Atheny, "Every game with Missouri is played with several thousand empty seats in the stadium because of some crises." The teams' suits have all been sold," he said.
If the weather conditions are promising for the game and the seats are all sold, temporary bleachers will be placed on the side of the hill south of the stadium. This will be a good place to view the spectacle as it will be viewed from top view. Only a small admittance will be charged for these seats.
Campus Associations Hold Prayer Services Each Day This Week
Meetings at Watson Library and Hentley House Open to Students
The university Y, M. C. A. and Y, W. C. A., will observe the world's week of prayer with meetings each morning beginning Tuesday at Henley house and at Watson library. Between 8 and 8:20 a.m. a mather will play the role of child in the parlores of Henley house. A leader has been selected for each morning service. However the plan of the meeting is to give an opportunity for individual training, rather than to hear sermons, according to the officers of the Y, W. C. A. need for a time and place to pray have been expressed by some college women, said Miss Mary K. the secretary of the association.
"People have found these morning hours rich because they have given time and provided means for an unhurried beginning of the day," said Miss Russ, who will lead the first service.
Members of the Y, M, C, A. cabinet and other interested men will meet for 30 minutes of discussion and meditation, beginning at 7:50 a.m. an invitation to attend the morning meetings has been extended to all students.
Literary Vespers Held
Crafton Reads Play at First Sunday Meeting
The "Terrible Mock," a play, was read by Prof. J. Wilhelm Crown Easter afternoon in the auditorium of central Administration building. It was a play based on the crucifixion and has three characters, a peasant woman, the captain and a soldier, in the cast. The play is given on a dark stage with only the distinct voices of the three characters coming out of the hall. It shows the nature because of a religious belief to which he clung. The captain and the soldier begin to discuss death which leads the captain to repent the execution and change his attitude toward hunging. In "Servant In The House," a religious allegory also written by Kennedy.
Under the auspices of the Y. M. C.
A. and the departments of English,
dramatic speech and art, and journalism,
the department of literature is
"literary vessels" are planned.
Miss Rosemary Ketcham Addresses Topeka Club
"Art for Everyday" was the subfoc of a talk given by Miss Rosemary Ketehan, head of the department of design at a meeting of the Women's Club in Topeka last Thursday. The assembly was in celebration of the opening of the new building of the Topeka Women's Club.
Following Miss Ketcham's talk, the merchants of Toopka gave a demonstration of modern art in dress. Meantions were assigned a model for this demonstration.
Women's Rifle Teams Begin Work
The women's rifle team, consisting of 180 women, has started drilling for competition with other Valley schools. The team average for the women last year did not have a high national rating, but won national honor awards.
At one place in East Africa a population of 39,000 has decreased in four years to 3,000 because of the loss of cattle due to the tests by
Tiger and Jayhawk Joint Concert Set for Friday, Nov. 20
Missouri Club Won Third Place in Intercollegiate National Contest Last Spring
The University of Missouri Glen Club will be 40 men to Lawrence for the joint concert which will be given in Robinson gymnasium Nov. 21, according to an announcement made this morning by Justin Fugate, manager of the K. U. club. Fugats had arranged for all members of Missouri sangers selected for the trip and was busy planning honing arrangements for the visitors.
This is a larger groom than Missouri took to New York for the national contest and last spring indicated that it indicates the true strength of their club. The Tiger Club is a larger organization than is our Kusco club and it includes
"The Missouri club director, Herbert Walk, has had to pick his best man for the trip because of the expense of bringing the entire club to Lawrence. The men selected will undoubtedly include those who went to New York and helped being back third prize in the national contest:
Third in National Contest
"The national intercollegiate glee club contract attracted the best college glee clubs in the country, and was won by the Yale club. The fact that the Missouri club placed third in such a competition also solidified the worth of that club defensively."
"The music of both the Missouri and Kansas clubs is of the highest order, and the Kansas Glee Club feels proud at being able to offer a concert of much bard at the joint concert on the eve of Missouri-Kansas football game.
"Last year, we went to Columbia and sang in joint concert with the Missourians the night before the Tiger-Jayhawk battle and we certainly received a royal welcome. The joint concert last year was largely in the nature of an experiment, and we did not find it successful and even fed in continuing these two-club appearances on the eve of the big football game."
Figurs Have Former K. U., Member
In discussing the personnel of the two club Fugats revealed the fact that each club has a singer who formerly performed at the club, a member of our club, was formerly a member of the Missouri Gleeb Club, and F. E. Ebensee White, who was formerly a member of our club, has now joined Tiger aggregation.
Tick sales for the Missouri-Kansas joint glove club concert commences on Thursday. Tickets are to holders of student activity tickets, the admission will be 25 cents with activity ticket coupon number 38, and to others, admission will be 50.
memorial Pledges Due
"Pay Up Week" to Be Observed to Collect Money
A request for the payment of memorial pledges and subscriptions sometime during the present week has been made by Sherman G. Ellot, Ph.D., of the University of Georgia. This time is being observed as "Pay Up Week," a plan which is used in the spring and in the fall of each year, according to Mr. Ellot.
Because of the fact that so many subscribers pay no attention to statements that are sent out regularly every 30 or 60 days, posters have been published as well as in meet of the buildings, calling attention to the paying up of plaques this week. Last year 83,000 statements were sent out by the Memorial Corporation each six months to the reports of the corporation's work.
All persons who are delinquent in the payment of these pledges are notified by the treasurer every month or year, and when the plan was started in 1923 after the plan had been inaugurated by the treasure's office. It was tried first as only an experiment but proved so successful that it was used twice annually since that time.
Mr. Elliot is requesting that these phlegas be paid either at his office in the basement of central Administration building sometime before Saturday night, or by check through the mail.