THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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Vol. XXII.
"Green Day" Solo and Chorus Part Selections Made
Musical Comedy Training to Start Next Week; Betty Sifers Is Manager
The solo parts and choruses for the all-university musical comedy "Green Days" have been selected from the 202 students who tried out. Intensive training will begin next week and conference the date of presentation March 7.
The comedy was written by Helen Marcelo, c26, and is being given under the management of Betty Sifter, c25
The following leads have been chosen; Either OIL, Ray Wright, Fred Skinner, Virgil Sums, Palmer Stephens, Daniel Bowers, Michael MacLaren, and Frances Patterson.
the choreuses include Geraldine Ward, Marcia Gockert Cooper, Harril Gillett, Elise Burke, Inas Blaker, Dorothy George, Mary Engel, Vernon Noah, Starr Stari, Arthur Goal, Edward Calendar, Herbert Lating, Dorothy George, Joanne Ferrison, Wingene Lacey, Georgiana Speiman, Louise Walling-ford, Irene Murrey, Helen Clute, Josephine Klein, Thora Pegu Snier, Thorne Collins, Josephine Snyder, Joan Gladys Jones, Dorothy Taylor, Elise Arbuthnot, Battery Battleship, Rhyll Wellman, Cordelia Lacoff, Helen Stillman, and Evelyn Forrester.
Swimming Meet Tonight
Five organizations, Kappa Kappa Gamma, Chi Omega, Sigma Kappa Pi Beta Phi, and Corbin hall, will be represented in the intramural swimming on Thursday, Feb. 12, at the tank at Robinson gymnasium.
Contestants of Five Houses Entered in Events
Timers for the races and judges of the dives in the meet will be K. A. Schbadenman, associate professor of athletics, George "Petey" Clark, procter and dessert of athletics, and G. B. Patrick assistant professor of physical education.
Eleven events constitute the series of the need. These are: Relay, breast stroke for form, crew stroke for position, lift-off stroke, 50 rear breast stroke, 50 rear side-overarm race, 50 rear back stroke, plunge, underwater, and stunt. Attendance is limited to women under 26 years old. The admission price is ten cents.
Pi Beta Phi: Lancie Gise, Josephine Farrell, Jane Whittney, Wilma Oliver, Eleanor Meier, and Virginia Mills.
Members of the teams who will swim on Thursday are:
Kappi KappaGamma; Martha Sharon, Donna Kreuger, Alice Ewerle, Mary Outland, and Margaret Fones.
Chi Ouiagem: Frances Patterson,
Beth M.Clung, Edna Eva Eberhardt,
Irma Edinger, Helo Campbell,
Irene Shannon, and Stasia Har-
bard
The Sigma Kappa team has not yet been definitely decided.
Corbin halI: Edith Mary Martin
Emma Roots, Mona Fonk, Julie
Mary Johnson, and Marjorie Roderick.
E. B. Stouffer Comments on Graduate Students
"Work of a very commendable nature is being done by professors and students of Eaker University, who are completing their respective degree work here at the University," said Dean E. B. Stouffer, of the Eaker University in commenting on the work being done in that school.
Many university and college students and professors are taking advantage of the facilities offered by the University of Kansas to complete degree work here. This is shown by the large enrollment and by the fact that many are spending whole or part time in study at the University.
Tustan Ackerman, captain of the Kansas basketball team was given unrequited recognition in the February issue of the All Sports magazine. A cut of the popular player attired in basketball uniform, appears with the caption, "The best basketball player in the Missouri Valley."
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Wichita Editor to Speak to Journalism Students
Victor Murdock will speak to the students of the journalism department on Monday, March 2. Mr. Murdock is editor of the Wichita Eagle. He is one of the prominent editors of Kansas which the department is bringing to the University. W. Y. Morgan of the Hutchinson N.Y. University of the Emporia Gazette will speak in March. Henry Allen is included in the list of speakers and will appear later in the semester.
Charles F. Scott of the Iola daily Register has enclosed his engagement, as he and his wife are leaving soon for China to visit their son.
Kansas House Lauds Coolidge for Efforts to Reduce Expenses
Bill to Legalize Boxing and Create New Commission
Is Indorsed
A resolution was put in the House by Representative Culp to call on Congress to submit to the states for a resolution that would permit the United States and different states to tax levy taxes on tax exempt goods.
United States
Topeka, Feb. 18 The Karnas House today passed the resolution of B. F. Endres of Leavenworth, praising President Coolidge for his effort to reduce the cost of Federal government.
J. W. Barryman today put in a bill that would destroy the Australian ballot system in Kansas. It provides that voters might vote a 'tight ticket' by putting a cross under the party emblem. The party emblys the Democratic, the Republican, rooster for Democracy and clams hands for Socialists.
The House committee of the judiciary recommended for passing the bill that would legalize boxing in Kansas. The state's boxing commission composed of the athletic directors of K. U., K. S. A. C, and the Emporia Teachers' College.
Another bill introduced today in the House, by Becks of Douglas county, would place the state sanity live stock commission entirely under the control of the government. Under the present law, the Governor may pass a law to stricter sanitoria a man recommended by the Kansas live stock association.
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS, LAWRENCE, KANSAS,THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1925
Women Invited to Class
Women are especially invited to attend the dances classes Friday afternoon, according to Dick Matthias. A special class will have plenty of opportunity to dance for the men have been outnumbering the women slightly. All women wd
Steps Are Important to Them Says Director
"It is just as important that women learn to dance as for men," Matthews said. "To be satisfied with just being led around is not sufficient. Every woman will be a better dancer if she knows the sten."
The advanced class is held from 3:30 to 4:30 and the beginners class from 4:30 to 5:45 every Friday afternoon. This week there will be two new steps for the advanced class, the beginners class will be new steps and more technique.
Admission to the class is by term ticket or by single admission at the door. The attendance of the classes was very good last Friday, according to Matthews. About seventy-five attended.
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26; Wakency; Myron Syon, c27;
28; Lakewood; graduate student,
Lindsburg, and Truman Sternberg, 26; Decatur, III.
1aha Kappa Psi Piedges Five
Kansan Board Elects Staff
Kanan Board elected the following staff members yesterday afternoon: Jacqueline Stice, campus editor; Frances Martin, telegraph editor; Edgar Schowalter, alumni editor; Mildred Cutter, exchange editor; Jennifer Browne, committee committee was appointed to nominate critics for the next board election.
"Too Many People Regard Church as Insurance"-Curry
leader of Biblical Study
Thinks Ecclesiastical
Crusade Has
Lost Force
"The church is an instrument in a crusade," said Dr. R.E. Bruce Curry, yesterday afternoon, the second day of the pilgrimage. The original parchment of the crusade has been lost because the people have forgotten it as a sort of life insurance company.
Bible Study Necessary
"The study of the bible connects its problems with idealism." Doctor Curry said. "They are both necessary for a Christian to be saved of Jesus must be taken seriously." insisted. There is no use talking and teaching there is an emergency. Service and sacrifice have been proved the secret to happiness and success. But no one can gain happiness by rebelliously giving up something. There is a hundredfold reward in doing so where should be a continuous general crucade of sacricles in the church.
The Curry Institute is being held in central Administration building a enrolment of about a hundred students at a university a weekday was open to discussion and the regular Bible study began. Documents written by the study of the tenth chapter of Mark.
Miss Marie Russ, secretary of the Y. W. C. A, said today that "students and townpeople wishing to enroll for the week-end course in the U.S. must have appointments; these meetings are open any time at the meetings or preferably at the Y. M. C. A, office or Honey house so that time is not lost from the meetings of the institute."
the out-of-town people will arrive. Friday afternoon, their first visit to the town, local people are expected to join with the visitors in carrying on the meet.
Enrollments Are Open
**Maternal Diversity**
The method used to carry in these meetings will be about the same, but the content will be changed so that; the material of each meeting will be entirely new. The program for the remainder of the Bruce Carry Biblical institute is as follows: Friday, Feb. 14, 4:30-5:16; Opening Session, Feb. 14, 7:00-9:00; Schools, 7:00-9:00; Saturday, Feb. 14, 9:00-11:00; 2:00-4:00; Sunday.
Cast Announced for American Legion Play
Session, Feb. 13, 14, 4:00-5:45, Open,
Friday for delegates from other host
sites, February 14, 14, 9:00-11:00, 2:00-4:00, Sunday,
February 15, 9:00-16:00, 2:30-4:30.
New Green House in Use
Botany Students Raise Plants for Class Experiments
Many interesting plants are now being grown in the new green house, according to Prof. W. C. Sivens, head of the department of botany at the University of Wisconsin. The green house is being used for three main purposes; the growing of plants for physiological experimentation, for use by classes studying plant structure, and for the propagation of plants. Microshrubs used to decorate the campus.
"We are also growing some plants for other state institutions," Professor Stevens said. The green house, which is south of Powder stoves, and the second year class, have completed last summer, and was first used for class work this year.
"Three Wine Fools" will be presented by the Eli Dorsey post of the American Legion at the Brownsock theater Feb. 23 and 24. The cast which includes a number of Univeristies as is often the case in FINDLEY .. T. S. Charlton Dr. Gaunt .. C. C. Carl Judge Trumbull N. N. Manchester Sydney Fairchild .. Laura Balloo Gordon Schuyler J. C. Holmes Benny Suratil .. Clarence S. Grubb John Crawhayle, George E. Callahan Clancy .. Sam Weatherby Douglas .. Claudie Scott Policeman .. Arch Oliver In speaking of the play, the commander of the legion said that he believed it to be one of the best shows ever produced in Lawrence and have been ordered for the production.
Name, Alaska, Feb. 12—Heavy snouts south of Norton Bay have delayed the dog teams bringing new supplies of diphtheria serum to Nome, but the epidemic is steadily controlled and no apprehension is felt.
Wire Flashes
--feeling that the meetings of Religious Week, at which Dr. G. Shirrow Eddy will speak, will be of interest to many students. This is knowing that all organizations clear the days of Tuesday, Feb. 24, Wednesday, Feb. 25, and Thursday, Feb. 26, or meetings. This will leave the students free to hear this Christian week.
Washington, Feb. 12—Senator Campbell, Florida democrat, introduced a resolution today calling for an investigation by the Federal Trade Commission of the recent advances in the price of gasoline. The increase is unwarranted, and that it was made without authorization.
Tulsa, Oklahoma. Feb. 12 — The Sinclair Oil Company today announced an increase in crude oil prices followed by the Perry Oil and Gas Company.
Chicago, Feb. 12—Twenty-five men and women were injured, some seriously today when a vat of gunpowder exploded in the chemical room of the engraving plant of the Chicago Evening American. Fire followed the explosion. Dense smoke surrounded the huge office building and scores of people climbed down, the fire escapes to safety.
Kansas Team to Meet Washington Quintet Tonight in St. Louis
Contest Will Be Crucial One Outcome May Indicate Valley Champion
Washington has a veteran team and several men that should place them in the top five in spring. Minner, veteran forward was one of the high point men in the Valley not year and ranks in the top five. Cox at guard is also a great player.
The University of Kansas basketball squad last night immediately after the game for Kansas to train for St. Louis. The game to tie between Kansas and Washington university at St. Louis is a crucial one as the outcome will go far to show the Valley winner this year. The victory over Oklahoma White from Purdue, has lost only one game and that to Oklahoma by a narrow margin. Kannas has a slight edge according to dope on the victory over Oklahoma. The kannas somewhat travel away due to the hard game with Grinnell last mugh and the long railroad journey. The fact that Kannas has words of rejection strength will help in this situation.
From St. Louis Kanaan will go to Columbia, Mo., where he will meet students at the University of Missouri. This game will conclude the eastern tournament of
conciliate of Washington-
Kansas,
Ackerman, capt., Mimer, f.
Schmidt, f. Hallauer, f.
Peterson, c. Seago, c.
Gordon, g. Cox, capt., g.
Wilgin, g. Well, g.
Won 7 Lost 1 Pet.
Kansas 7 1 883
West Virginia 5 1 855
Nebraska 5 1 845
Kansas Aggies 4 67 655
Oklahoma 5 4 555
Missouri 5 4 500
Grincoln 3 5 370
Cincinnati 2 7 270
Iowa State 2 0 000
The tentative line:
The standings of the Missouri Valley team are as follows:
Wallace James, Pres. of Men's Student Council.
Student Council
Kathleen O'Donnell, Pres. of Wo
Herbert Gracher, Pres. of Men's Pan-Hellenic.
Signed,
Alice Evans, Pres. of Women'
Pan-Hellenic.
No.103
The study of French by the aid of victoria records has been used successfully at Chicago University for several years.
Limestone Layer Separates Diggers From Cave Victim
Kansas Town Finds Loc
Man Does not Check
With Kentucky
Namesake
Dust Wind flew snow over 12.—As a winter wind flew snow on the ground, a morning attack the last few feet of rock that"separates them from each other.
The moke-mer have borrowed to the limestone layer which forms the roof of Collins' rock box.
It may be minutes, it may be hours, before their picks pierce that bottom crust and discloses to them their goal.
All preparations have been made to quickly clear out the debris, place cellos on a lift and deliver him to W. H. Halstead, Chicago which
But there they stop. Dr. Hazlett may give a stimulant or he may say the man is dead.
Haddam, Kansas. Feb. 12.—Kaua
aus has a Floyd Collins.
He was hold here today at the home of Mayor E. W. Sharcarbum while authorities are trying to get in touch with Cave City authorities. Floyd Collins does not check up with Cave City's Floyd Collins, however.
"I twenty-five years old," he said this morning. "I was recently discharged and I was making my way back to Cave Grynn. I have not been there."
M. Hayar Shearburn said he was convinced the man's name was Flood Collins, but he is not sure he is the real Floyd Collins. The mayor excused him for a trip to Gov. H. H. Denhart of Kentucky, who had notified him earlier yesterday.
The Kansas Collins said he had three brothers, Homer, Maurice and Bert. He also said his father's name was Lou Collis. He said the man couldn't believe in the case couldn't be 25 years old and told of the discrepancy in ages.
To Lecture About Stage
Dr. Oskar Hagen, of Germany to Speak Here Feb. 17
Dr. Oskar Hagen of Göttingen University, in Goettlingen, Germany, who will lecture on "Modern Stage Leadership" in the chapter on the chemistry literature I, has in addition to his ability as a speaker and his strong personal personality, the advantage of speaking English well, according to the man, according to a letter received by Prof. H. C. Thurmean of the German department from Professor Holfield, head of the German department at the University of Wiesbaden.
Dr. Haven's lecture on "Modern Stuccage and Its Antecedents" was well received in Madison, WI, where he gave it a short time ago, but he will return to March 26 where he will resume his duties in the University of Goettingen.
Aggies Want Dormitory
Kansas College Delegates Mee Joint Committee
Miss Agnes husband, dean of women, Miss Albert Cornin of the German department, and Miss Eileen Ball, a basketball last night before a joint meeting of the ways and means committee of the house and senate at Topsko. The committee met to say about the bill now pending for the appropriation of funds for the dormitory at K. S. A. C. Representatives from all the Kansas state agencies present to urge such appropriation.
The three representatives from K. U., spoke before the committee. Miss Corbin, who was instrumental in obtaining the original appeal from K. U., made the original appeal from K. U.
Miss Gaines' appeal was reported to have been "archithumonately reactive, condescending and insulting." Laxton, whose two daughters, are students in the University, spoke for Miss Gaines.
Representatives from K. U. report:
1 favorable impression made upon the committee.
Send the Daily Kansan home.
W. S. G. A. Group Leaders Discuss Extension Plans
W. S. G. A. a group leaders meet Wednesday afternoon in the rest room of center Ad. for the purpose of placing new women students in groups. Each leader took the names girls living newest her group.
A committee was appointed to organize teams for inter-group basketball. It is believed by the leaders of the team to have a large number of teams can be organized.
Problems of the various groups were discussed and reports of the activities of several of the groups were given.
High School Tourney Dates Decided on by Athletic Association
Only District Winners Are to Compete in High School Meet Here
The Kansas State basketball tournament will be held in Rohnsmann gymnasium on Friday ad Saturday March 21 and 28. This move was decided last week. The Kansas State High School Athletic Association to Tepael last week.
Due to the great number of entries beforefore, now only the winners of the respective district meets will be eligible to compete in the state meet. Before this rule was changed, all runners-up and winners of the consolation round of each district were allowed to enter the state meet.
new plan is to send the winner of the tournament to Lawrence to compete for the state title. The games will be played on a cool court instead of the old "crossbow courts." The old method allowed for the same time. This caused the elimination of games with timers.
not accustomed to the short courts.
According to Dr. F, C. Allen, this is a step forward for a better state tournament and also a boost for the University. Prof. W. W. McCannell, secretary of the Kansas State High School Association, said, "I will be with you out the full time of the tournament."
The schedule will be arranged so that eight games will be played in the first round, starting at 9 a.m., friday, March 27. The next frame will contain four games starting 6:30 Friday evening. The next break will consist of two games beginning with a game followed by two games at night ending the tournament. This schedule is a tentative one.
The Kansas State High School Basketball Tournament is carried on under the aupies of the Kansas State High School Athletic Association which receives all the money derived from the sale of tickets for the games. The University Athletic Association merely furnishes Robinson games are played. The money received and turned back to the respective teams according to the milage traveled.
"The University of Kansas Athletic Association gives the winner of the title $200 to aid them in de-fraying the expenses of their going to the national high school tourna-
ture at Chicago," said Dr. F. C. Alen.
Berlin Has Mine Tragedy
One Hundred and Thirty-one Workers Killed
(United Pres.)
Berlin, Feb. 12.—One hundred and thirty-one miners were killed in a mine explosion at Dartmund shorts; before midnight, in one of the worst diameters in German industrial history.
Several rescue workers, cutting their way into the gas filled shaft in search of possible survivors were asphyxized.
Of the 138 miners caught when the blast let go only seven were brought out alive.
The entire industrial region around Dortmund was plunged into gloom by the tragydes and crowds gathered threatening to lynch the directors.
Pitiful scenes were enacted as scores of wives and mothers, with children at their skirts, clamored to be allowed to enter the pit and help the hundreds of volunteers who were risking their lives in the shaft.
William Durand Sounds Warning of Oil Shortage
Engineering Students Heat President of A. S. M. E. in Convocation Address
Address
"We are using our present day oil apply without any thought of the future, and future civilization will be dependent upon some sources of energy," said William F. Durand, president of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, in an address on the development of "Hydro-electric 'bower' at a concession of the state school of Engineering his morning."
"The oil situation of the United States is acute, and the end of our oil supply is inevitable. If the present rate of consumption of oil in countries changed, the oil resources of the United States will be exhausted in twenty years. We are consuming about one half billion barrels of oil each year." "We are exhuming the principal oil we are exhuming the principal without any thought of the future."
"The other source of power, to which we must resort is the use of hydroelectric power. So long as we have the change of seasons, night and day, rain and drought, we will be able to collect water on the high places of the earth, transmit it and generate power. This supply is used for drawing from the principle as in the use of oil" and Dr. Durand.
Dr. Durand was introduced by tean P. F. Walker, who studied under him at Cornell University.
Bureau to Send Letters
Teachers' Placement Office Writes to Principals
Letters are being sent out to all the high school principals, in the state calling attention to the number and qualifications of senior teachers at the University of Kansas by the charge of Prof. W. H. Johnson, of the School of Education. In this way the appointment bureau will be able to collect information as to the needs of each principal regarding new teachers for next year and will be able to fill the requirements successfully.
Other letters will be sent out to high school principals throughout the South and Southwest advertising the summer season, a letter from the bletter, announcing U.S. dates and character of the summer session and calling attention to the work of the bureau, has been entered in every newsletter. The thousand letters will be sent out.
W. L. Higgins Receives Railroad Appointment
W. I. Higgins, Jr., ex'23, has been pointed assistant vice-president of he St. Louis and San Francisco railroad, to a letter received rom him this morning by Prof. W. Dill of the department of journal
Mr. Higgins, after leaving the University, attended the University of Oklahoma for a short time. While there he married Miss Elizabeth Johnson of Corpus Christi, Texas. In 1923 he founded a commercial bureau to produce a women's assistantignment man and feature writer for the Toneka State Journal.
He is a member of the Piu Delta Theta fraternity and National Quill Club and is a son of W. L. Hippog, an international court law, new of New York.
Pi Kapna Alphas Will Build
Ki Pappa Alphas Win
The ruins of the Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity on a street, which was destroyed by fire on Jan. 3, are being torn down by workmen, to make way for the building of the new chapter house at the same location. Only the brick wall behind the door is still standing, which composes the sun parter, leeping俯 and dining room will be left standing and will be used in the new building. It is hoped by members of the fraternity that the structure will be ready for occupancy by the time school starts in he fall.
Sociology club meeting 4:30 at Westminster hall, Friday, Feb. 13.
Miss Helen Gregory will speak.
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