THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOLUME XVII
RAIL MEN TO IGNORE ORDER NOT TO STRIKE
Instructions to Quit Work Feb.
17 Cannot be Recalled,
Officials Say
Kansas Law Is Disregarded
Organization Head Puts Little Faith in Use of New Kansas Law
Detroit, Feb. 11 — Maintenance of way workers and railway shop workers will pay no attention to any in-junction issued restraining them from striking, A. E. Barker, great prelude of the brotherhood declared today.
"The government, when it suits its purpose, tells us that the war is over, and the Lever Act does not apply. Also, when it suits its purpose, it tells us the war is not over, and the Act is effective.
"No injunction will be needed. The strike order has been issued and cannot be recalled." Barker said.
Barker placed little faith in the伯尔顿 from Kansas that the newly passed Industrial Relations Law called into play in case of the strike.
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS, WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, FEBRUARY 11, 1920.
Topeka, Feb. 11—Attorney General Hopkins today in an interview gave an opinion of the new industrial court criminal statutes as applied to the state's law, saying it and gave it as his belief that union officials would then be prosecuted, saying there was no question as to the right of the state to request requisition or warrant for union officials to violate the law while outside the state.
Kansas Attorney General Gives Opinion on Rail Strike
PROSECUTIONS HELD POSSIBLE
Workers who quit their jobs in response to the calls of the trade are arrested on misdemeanor charges Hokkins holds.
One of the workers who has a large family has written to the attorney general of Kansas that he does not want to violate any laws and has asked for advice. In reply Hopkins is preparing a letter to the attorney general that he does not want to violate the law to disregard the strike order and remain at work.
NUMBER 88
PALMER IS READY TO ACT
Railroad Administration Doubts Men Will Quit Work
Washington, Feb. 11—Attorney General Palmer today expressed surprise at the railroad situation and is prepared to act and intervene in the controversy between the Rail Road Administration and fourteen rail road unions demanding immediate wage increases.
Officials of their union here today were planning appeal to President Wilson over the head of Railroad Director Hines as a last resort.
Meanwhile Hines was to meet with officials of all the unions late today to give them an answer to their question handed to him just yesterday.
The railroad administration declared as illegal the order sent to 360, 900 maintenance of way workers discharged from the railroad and readiness to quit work February 17.
Railroad administration officials say privately they do not believe the union will strike.
According to President Sheepard of the Order of Railway conductors, the unions are determined to act if their demands are not met.
A delegation of maintenance of way employees who voted to strike February 17, arrived here today from Detroit. Members of the delegation immediately met with Vice-Pres. Malloy of their brotherhood who is one of the union leaders and at which time the men expect to receive the answer.
A choral work by Professor Skilton entitled "The Witch's Daughter," was recently produced at the University of North Dakota by the combined efforts of the university, institution, under direction of Prof. E. H. Wilcox of the music department. The first performance of this work took place a year ago at St. Louis Overseas Friar Paganit Choral Club, St Louis Overseas directed by and Frederick Flacher.
Produce Prof. Skilton's Work at U. of North Dakota
American Submarines Safe
Washington, Feb. 11—Five submarines caught in severe storms on their trip from the Bermuda, and several days overdue, are now safe in United States waters the navy department was advised today.
Pesky Fees Nibble Into Studs' Banks
The peeky little fee
He's mighty like a flea
As he nibbles from you and me,
Tee hee.
"Fees at the University of Kansas" says P. S. O. Rice, "are the only thing in the world that haven't gone up." Also fees at the University of Kansas are about half those of other Universities. Here the fees paid by医excess all others, with bacteriologists next.
An average of $2,000 has been taken in daily for fees at the Business Office of the University since the beginning of the new semester. This fee includes a minimum fifty-cent fee paid by students in the department of Journalism.
The majority of students pay by check and more Watkins checks have been purchased through Merchants National ranks second in popularity with University students.
ACCEPTS PUBLICITY JOB
Herbert Flint Becomes Agen For New York Thrift Bank Organization
Herbert Flint, A. B. 14 and former instructor of Rhetoric at K. U., has been made public agency agent of a new thrift bank organization drive in New York. According to word received by faculty friends he will receive for his first years services as salary of $4,000.
Mr. Flint resigned his position as instructor in the University of Kansas in 1917 and has been employed as a reporter on the New York Sun.
Mr. Flint's position is under an organization of New York banks which are planning a series of new thrift banks to be established in the industrial centers of the nation. By an organization, he intends to interest the laboring class in the starting of a savings account in these banks.
Java Still Going Up Government Report Shows
Washington, Feb. 11 (United Press)-Visions of further increased prices in coffee faces the public following the statement that coffee imports in Europe compared with 1918, though there was but a slight increase in quantity.
A blighted coffee crop in Brazil, a prohibition and a attenuous coffee advertising campaign are blamed for the decline in coffee demand met by every American household.
According to Department of Commerce figures 1,235,532,102 pounds of coffee were imported by the United
States at a cost of $239,400,758. This is more than double what was paid for the 1,215,288,752 pounds imported in 1917. In 1918, 996,518,558 pounds were imported at a cost of $292,529,306.
Prices are still rising according to latest monthly statistics. In November 108 million pounds were imported at a cost of $365 million. The coffee imported a mounted to 102 million pounds valued at $2,445,458.
Rudolph Uhrlaub New Assistant in Geology
"Rudolph Uhlbrand, e18, has been employed to help relieve the phenomenal overcrowded condition of classes in the department where he was employed today." "His chief business will be to assist in the laboratories which are fitted up for about $study students and to keep the costs more than a hundred at one time."
Crew of Shipping Board Boat Poughkeepsie Mutiny
The lecture classes in Elementary Geology have an enrollment of 100 in Physiography, 150, and the department is searching for another assistant. There have not been enough students to date the students comfortably and common chairs have been provided for temporary use.
The men will be returned to Hampston Roads and delivered to the United States federal attorney on the charge of mutiny the dispatch said.
Washington, Feb. 11—The crew of the shipping board vessel Floodkhepshe has mutinied and has been placed under arrest at Bermuda by the commanding officer of the Sacramento. Secretary Daniels was advised today.
Is it not strange that an Englishman should use as the theme for a play to be presented before an English audience, the life of an American her? Yet the simple delineation of the life of Abraham Lincoln from the time of his formal acceptance of the nomination for president until the time of his death into a most remarkable play by John Drinkwater, an English playwright.
It is a play devoid of love plot and its theme is the threatened separation of the Southern States from the Northern States. Although when presented this season in New York some criticisms were made concerning the portrayal of the history of this period in history, the play met with favorable criticism.
In England the play was originally given by the Birmingham Reporter Theatre with much success. When its success reached London the Lon
K. U. HAS 17 ALIENS
Governor Allen to Chicago
Toppea, Feb. 11—Governor Allen
was to leave late today for Chicago
to attend the Republican Party
the Chicago Bar Association on Lincoln's birthday anniversary. He will talk on industrial problems.
LODGE OFFERS LIST NINE RESERVATIONS
Students From Eleven Foreign Counties Come to Attend This University
Article 10 and the Monroe Doctrine are not Touched in This Plan
Students from ten foreign countries and one province of the United States are attending the University of Kansas. Students from the Philippine Islands in numbers with ten in attendance. Russia follows a close second with seven students. There are two English students attending and studying at the Canadian, Czecho-Slovakian, German, Bulgarian, Jap and Hawaiian.
Washington, Feb. 11 — Irreconcilable Republican senators are about ready to concede that the senate will ratify the treaty as a result of the discussion which will begin next Monday, it was indicated today.
There are other students whose parents were born in foreign countries, but the above students named are other residents of their own country, or have just recently come to the United States.
Washington, Feb. 11—Senator Lodge offered in the senate today nine amendments to peace treaty. The amendments were written out. They affect the preamble, the withdrawal of domestic questions and the naming of American state representatives and the payment of the United States, share of league expense armament and voting power.
A canvass of the senate has shown the "bitter enders" they said, that "any loophole that can be squeezed through" will be used by some senators in changing front on the reservation and ratification.
"Irreconcilables" are convinced that Senator Lodge and his supporters do not want the treaty in the presidential campaign. One of the "Irreconcilables" said today that the supporters of the Lodge reservations are willing to agree to any reservation on Article X.
Senator Lodge did not submit an amendment on article ten or the Monroe Doctrine. The amendment to the reservation on voting power is only one submitted by Lodge on which agreement had not been reached in the bi-partisan conference. Lodge's action today was made by the agreement given official程序 of Lodge in the Senate. Lodge hopes to get the support of enough programs to change in the bi-partisan conference, and they have agreed to most of the amendments presented today.
Arnold Bennet in discussing the play attributes its remarkable success to the author's deep practice knowledge of the stage and the sim
don Managers ignored it, with the result that Nigel Playfair secured the play and company for an engagement in Hammersmith, a suburb of London. Its success was immediate. Today, according to Arnold Bennett, no person can dine in London and admit without a blush that he has "not witnessed the most mutatic critics and prominent people have traveled out into the little out of the way suburb to see the play that was provoking so much criticism
News for the Daily Eansan is obtained by the students of the department of journalism. As the holiday tomorrow (Thursday) does away with our reportorial staff, the paper can begin print. The regular edition will be printed Friday, February 13.
plicty with which he handled the gigantic theme of one of the World's greatest and finest characters.
NO KANSAN TOMORROW
PROF. JOHN ISE SAYS PANIC NOT IMMINENT
All Books for Exchange Must be in by Friday
Last season the j-ay was presented in New York with great success. That a play not involving a love plot and dealing altogether with political intrigue could hold the attention of an audience through six scenes has been successful. The scene the audience is described as experiencing the same feeling at the beginning of the play. When the curtain goes on on the common place little parlor scene the audience begins to wonder if this small talk will ever cease. But before the curtain falls on the same scene the spell begins to fall on the audience and no one cares to leave his seat until the curtain falls for the third time. The curtain cannot be described and yet it exists as the audience follows the events of the Great American hero in dramatic form.
Currency is Inflated but He Thinks Balance of Trade Will Bring Level
"There is but little cause for panic alarm. Although America must not be too complacent, that no reason to believe that any kind of a panic is imminent." This was the assertion of Prof. John Ike of the department of emergency medicine in this morning on the recent price drop of the British pound.
Calls for the following books are coming in at the book exchange. Newcomer—History of English Literature.
Professor Ise was seen a clipping from a Kansas City paper in which Prof. H. G. Brown head of the department of economics at the University of Missouri was quoted as having said that exchange rates have been dropping ever since the "eighties" and that there should be no fear that Professor Brown was possibly a bit too optimistic.
'If any students have any of the following books for sale they should hand them in before Friday, as Friday is the last day that the exchange will be open," said Helen Olson today.
“One thing that should be taken in consideration is that European countries will probably repudiate their debts and refuse to pay off them,” Mr. Zemel said in his place. “But even if this does take place, it will soon put the rate of exchange in their favor, and the balance of trade will swing the countries back to a natural level. There is always a bare chance of panic, but I am not.”
Popenoe and Johnson—Eugenics. Cieland-Geology, Physical and Historical.
"Several students have asked that tests be saved for them, and unless they are called for before Thursday they will be put on sale."
There will be a meeting of the executive committee of the student branch of the American Institute of Engineers on Friday at 3:30 room 117 Martyn Hall.
Vogt—Rural Sociology.
K. U. FLU SITUATION IS IMPROVING DAIL
Dr. E. Smith Still Inists That Students Take all Precautions
"The fli situation is improving, as far as the University students are concerned," says Dr. E. Smith, of the University Hospital, but although it is subsisting all precautions should be taken in order to prevent another outbreak."
There are several empty beds at the hospital and only one case had reported there since Tuesday. In many cases the student has no temperature to speak of but is kept there because Dr. Smith thinks he will be better taken care of than if he were at home.
Orders were received Monday by Ed Anderson, City Welfare and Sanitation officer, from Dr. S. J. Crumbate, State Health Officer, ordering him to make a canvas of all fraternity, sorority and rooming houses, to determine the number of influenza cases in the houses visited, Mr. Anderson found only seven cases of influenza in the houses.
Dr. A. W. Clark, City Health Office, reports an addition of thirty new cases Tuesday in Lawrence, two of which were pneumonia. He said that it is difficult to tell how the infestation caused of the steady inflow of reports.
One of the volunteer nurses aids, Alfrieda Brückmiller, c'20, was called Tuesday to the home of Dr. Alberta Schoenfeld, who confined at home because of illness.
WILL HAVE INTERVIEWS
Kenneth Saunders Will Meet Small Groups at Myers
In spite of the fact that the weekly Y. M. C. A. luncheon will not be held this week, Kenneth Sunders will have an opportunity to meet He will be available for short interviews and small group meetings at Myers Hall. Sherwood Eddy, however, has been advised of the steps and will not make a stop in Lawrence.
Tickets sold for this week's Noonday Luncheon will be good for the first luncheon after the淋芙娜 ban is removed, Secretary Con Hoff呐 is infidle. If this is held next week, R. H Kursas of Kurasza City will speak.
More Volunteer Nurses Needed—May Registe
"More volunteer nurses aides are needed," said Dr. M. B.macon Today "twenty-six young women have registered so far. Young women have had Home Nursing or First Aid courses or medical students are preferred." The young women should register in Doctor Bacon's office in Robinson Gymnasium as soon as possible.
Man Was Dead Once But Saw No Spirits
Oklahoma City, Okla. Feb. 10. (Uni-
tress)—Near Dillingham doesn't
believe in after-death communication
with the living. Dillingham was
"dead" for twenty minutes recently
and he says he ought to know.
Doctors said Dillingham's blood circulation was stopped by a clot of blood. His heart stopped beating and he did not breathe. Insertion of a saline solution into an artery just above the heart caused the clot to dissolve and Dillingham came back to life.
"I didn't return to earth after I left it," said Dillingham. "I had no knowledge of anything that took place, but I must have been pretty dead as I do know I don't recognize several persons I had known all my life, after I was myself again. If I had any talks with anybody while I was "dead" I don't remember anything about it."
Plain Tales From The Hill
A University student has figured that every hour credit that a student receives costs fifty dollars and values an A. B at $0.8000. If this is true, he will be charged $100 for being very conservative, just think what spendthrifts flunks are.
First Stude: "My dog was coughing hand when I left home this morning."
Second Stude: "Maybe he has the fln."
First Stude: "I'd be afraid it wa-
that but he slept in a hay stack last
night so I think it's hay-fever."
A fraternity on the Hill, which is making plans for its formal, sent to Kansas City for samples of corsage bouquets. The other night a sample arrived and one member of the fraternity who is pushing his suit with a senior, rushed down to her house with the bouquet.
poosed because I stayed home so close. His friend replied, "The doctor savs it's in the air."
A student who had just recover from the flu said to another student "I don't see where in the world you are. I can't believe because I stayed home so close."
"Yes," returned the first student but I wasn't even out in the air very much.
When the professor called the name of a student in one of his classes and another student, said, "But she has drowned this course."
"That's good," responded the professor.
A professor in speaking to his class about a certain man said, "He was a Sigma Nu but in spite of this fact he was a very good lawyer."
It is prophesied that porch telephone phones may be a new bad this spring. A K. U. uman was seen Saturday afternoon sitting on the porch of his home talking diligently over the phone.
Professor (in confused room): "W must have order."
Sleepy student: "Him and Eggs."
In answering a question in one of Fergie's classes a student said, "The book says——"
Fergie: "Yes, I read it."
The students were discussing it high cost of books. They came to it decision that a Carnegie library outlived the pay war debt.
Miss Davis of K. C. Post Talks to Theta Sigma Phi
Theta Sigma Phi, women's honorary Journalism Fraternity, met at the Alpha Delta Pi house Tuesday afternoon at 3:06 o'clock. Adalek Dale c20, was pledged. Chocolate and wafer served after the business meeting.
Mise Frances Davis, feature writer for the Kansas City Post and former member of this chapter of The Tout Magazine, made a short talk about her work.
Page's Successor Named
Washington, Feb. 11-Robertson, denwood Johnson, of New York is to be appointed ambassador to Italy by President Wilson, it was announced at the White House today. Johnson's nomination will go to the Senate in a vote on March 3. Thomas Nelson Page who resigned five months ago. Johnson is said to be in full accord with the President's policy toward Italy.
II. F, Lott, e'18, was a visitor to the University yesterday. He is working for Black & Veach, Construction Engineers of Kauaunai City.
BASKETEERS' TRIALS START ON THURSDAY
Grinnell, Drake, Washington University, and Missouri University on Schedule
Hardest Grind of Season
Change Date for Conflict Between K. U. and Aggies to February 27-28
The Jayhawker basketball five begins its heaviest grind of the season when Coach F. C. Allen takes them to Grinnell Thursday afternoon, to play a game Friday night on the court with Drake and night with Drake in DesMoines, returning to Lawrence Sunday to start out again Tuesday for a two game series with Washington University in St. Louis Wednesday and Thursdays on Alabama on their return to play a second series with the Missouri Bengals.
"These six games will make the hardest trial of the K. U, five this season," said Dr. Allen this morning. He will take his regular five from the Aggie games, Captain Lomborg and Laslett, guards, Uhlbran center, and the Gators, center positions. Bunn and Fearing will go along as substitutes. Coach Allen he picked this combination with a view to their utility on a small court, such as the games this week will be played on, and a style of play affected by "Big Ten" company, play-by-play almost as much as the ball.
The date for the K. U-Agiec conflicts in Lawrence has been changed from February 25-26 to February 27-28. The game will be rested from their four-game trip of the proceeding week. The following week another series of two games, with the Oklahoma Sooners, will be staged in the final windup of the Jayhawk season.
SODA PRICES TO JUMP?
Fountain Owners Claim They Don't Make Expenses at Present Rates
The Proposed Price .09 .01 .10
'Coke' .18 .13 .20
Milk .18 .12 .20
Fruit Sundae .18 .12 .20
Milk Chocolate .18 .12 .20
The above prices probably will be introduced into most Lawrence soda fountains within the next ten days unless sugar drops from its present price of 17-1.2 cents a pound in bulk. These fountain owners claim they have been running the fountains without profit for some time. After taking this course, you will convince that the raise in prices while not decided upon definitely, may soon go into effect unless the price of sugar drops.
G. N. Allendorff, proprietor of the College Inn, is the only one who will keep the old price scale, no matter what it costs. The college Inn is not going to raise any prices," he said today when told of the proposal. "The others can raise all they want to, but I will keep the popular prices that the students can afford."
"I have heard of the proposed raise in soda fountain prices" said E. C. Bricken proprietor of the Oread Cafe, "And I may raise my prices soon, regardless of what the others do. Malted milks may go up because ice cream in now $1.25 a milk is $1.48 a quart twenty five pounds of malted milk now sells for $8.75, and labor "Coca Cola may go up in price Placards announcing the new prices because the cost of the syrup has increased, and because one hundred pound drum of compressed carbon dioxide gas used in making carbon dioxide gas costs $1.80. At the present, there is absolutely no profit in a five cent drink for me."
The raise, if decided upon, will go into effect in every soda fountain in Lawrence except the College Inn. Placards announcing the ne wprices will be posted conspicuously in every place of business.
Students living in Kansas City and Topaka say that soda fountains价 in those two cities are the same as they now are in Lawrence. Two or three city Missouri are exceptions to this rule. There seems to be no precedent in other towns for this contemplated change.