THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOLUME XVII
COUNCIL WILL ALLOW CLAIMS AT MEETING
New Constitution and League Vote Other Things to be Discussed
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS, WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, JAN CARY 7, 1920
Vote on New Constitution
Jan. 13 is Tentative Date for Vote on League of Nations
Claims for damages incurred during football rallies; adoption of the new constitution, and setting aside a date for a straw vote on the League of Nations, will occupy the Mack's Head at its meeting tonight in Fraser.
Lawrence citizens have filed claims for damages to the amount of $165.00 incurred during rallies held during the football season. The council will decide whether or not to allow all of these claims.
The Council will set a date for the student body to vote upon the proposed constitution. In order that the students may familiarize themselves with it, copies will be printed for general distribution.
The constitution up for adoption is the work of a special committee and provides for complete self-government by the student body under the name of "Associated Men of the University of Kansas."
The straw vote on the League of Nations is nation wide and under the supervision of a committee composed of the Editor-in-Chief of the Columbia Spectator, the Chairman of the Daily Princetonian, the Chairman of the Yale Daily News, and the President of the Harvard Crimson.
The plan is solely to stimulate discussion in academic communities and to obtain as accurately as possible an expression of collegiate sentiment. No propaganda will be distributed and no emphasis on view emphasized by the committee.
NUMBER 67.
January 13 is the tentative date set when all colleges are asked to hold the straw-vote.
A number of minor details will also come up for consideration during the meeting tonight.
WILL BUILD TRACK TO TRAIN FOR M. U
Athletic Association Will Dupi cate Convention Hall Twelve- Lap Track, Says Allen
An outdoor running track, of the same dimensions and character as that of Convention Hall in Kansas City will be started by the athletic association this week, according to Director of Athletics Forrest C. Allen this morning. The track will be built between the geology and engineering buildings, and will be finished by the end of the month.
The oval, according to Coach Schindler will cost thou $1,000. The purpose is to reproduce as far as possible the footing and other conditions of the Kansas City track, so that the meet with Missouri will have the effect on the runners of being on familiar ground. Track man who practice on the "rubber" banked indoor track in the gym would have ventured into this location. Coach Schindler, if they were transferred suddenly to the Convention Hall track
The trace, will be one-twelfth mile around, just the size and shape of the oval in the big assembly hall in Kansas City, and similar in being built of boards, not nanked, but with wide side cuts to allow the doors to meet to truss for the Missouri indoor meet in March Hall in Kansas City about March 1.
Inflated Money Causes H.C.L.Says Gov.Harding
(United Press)
Washington, *Jan.* — Governor Harding, of the Federal Reserve Board today warned the nations noted bankers in conference here, that a "further increase in discount rates of federal funds may be required by the finance which must be reckoned with."
This was taken to mean that the government is nearly ready to contract credit and put a brake on赡ation to bring business back to a peace standard officials say it would mean that the nation's currency, greatly inflated during the war, would be contracted. This inflation has been called the main cause of the high cost of living.
Two Dozen Stamps Bandit's Only Loo
Oilie, Kansas, Jan. 7—Twenty-four two-cent stamped stamps were the lot of five armed bandits who blew up the Kansas City jail today, Kansas near here early today.
The robbers escaped in a motor car. Telephone wires had been cut and authorities were summoned.
John Schuster, president of the Bank, awakened by the explosion rushed out receiving a charge of buckshot with a shotgun in the hands of a lookout.
Securities which usually were kept in the vault had been deposited in the bank here for safe keeping following the order of the Stanley bank six months ago.
KANSAN MERCHANTS TO STUDY ON HILI
Business Men Will Spend a Week Studying Specialized Courses
The first meeting of this nature was held in February 1914, and one has been held each year following until 1918. In 1918 and 1919 the Merchant had a war time conditions. At former meetings of the Merchant's Short Course about five hundred merchants from all over the state have attended. Due to increased interest however, there are hundred to one thousand are expected.
The Fifth Annual Merchant's Short Course, conducted by the University of Kansas through the University Extension Division, will be held in April. The course is designed to afford those already in business an opportunity to confer on fundamental business problems in their respective lines. In addition to general lectures on salesmanship, store management and business development, the course will discuss held on accounting, food values, and advertising.
The course is financed by a stat appropriation. No requirements for admission are demanded and no fee are charged. While intended especially for retail merchants, the course is open to all people in business; the course is open to anyone interested. Each session includes two or three lectures by business men to be followed by discussion in which all in attendance are invited to participate. Of these Round Table discussions will be held at 3:00 o'clock each afternoon at which time different merchants will discuss different classes of goods, such as hardware one day, foods the next and jewelry the next.
Among those who will lecture during the course are G. Albert Garver; of Strasburg, Ohio; vice-president and manager of Garver Brothers Department Store, which store did a million dollar business annually in a year. He also directed Mann, president of the North Dakota State Retailer's Association and president of the Federated Commercial Life Development Association of Devil's Lake, North Dakota, who manages a department store which does a six hundred thousand dollar business in a two or three thousand population town; G. Pryor Iwan, formerly an instructor in Washington, but now manager of a large department store, in addition to giving about one-third of his time to Retail Merchants' Service Organization; John DeWild, in charge of the Service Department of the North West Commercial Bulletin, of Minnesota, Miss; Helen B. Wray, graduate of Prince School of Business Training in Boston, Mass.; and no other university force and other service departments at John Taylor Dry Goods Company of Kansas City. Additional addresses University faculty.
Forty-Two Represent K. U. at Des Moines
A delegation of forty-two men and women represented K. U. at the Eighth International Convention of the Student Volunteer Movement at DeskMules where over 1,000 students received missions and foreign students stained intensively the world problems from the missionary viewpoint. Industrial, educational, medical, agricultural, and evangelical opportunities, as well as students in a villa gave way gave us a broader vision of new world needs.
Alfred Gray, ce'16, visited the campus Tuesday.
LODGE REFUSED NEW
TREATY COMPROMISE
If Democrats Accept Republican Revisions Their Plan May go Through
Much Depends On Wilson
If His Message to Democrats is Unyielding it May Block
Move
Washington, Jan. 7—Democratic proposals for a peace treaty compromise are unacceptable in their present form to Senator Lodge and his followers because they fail to agree with the Lodge view on Article X senators of the Lodge group said 'oday.'
The Democratic reservations prepared by Senators McKellar, Kendrick and Swanson and handed to Lodge late yesterday will be revised by mild reservation Republicans and returned to the Democrats.
If the Democrates will accept the modifications there is a possibility that an agreement may be in sight. But it might not, that much depends on what President Wilson says in his Jackson Day message to Democrats. If he again demands unqualified ratification, it is more likely that he will compromise may as well be dropped.
I: Includes Modification of Preamble and Reservation on Article X.
WHAT THE PLAN CONTAINS
Washington, Jan. 7-The chief features of the Democratic treaty compromise plan follows:
Elimination of that part of the preamble requiring acceptance of the American reservations by three of the four other principal allied powers.
Provision for withdrawal by the United States from the league by joint instead of concurrent resolution President nove to veto withdrawal.
Modification of the article 10 reservation so that the United States would assume no obligation to preserve territorial integrity by use of military or naval forces, except with the consent of congress.
Change in the reservation exempting domestic affairs from the jurisdiction of the league so that there will be no public mention of particular questions.
Alteration of the Monroe Doctrine reservation to the extent of striking out the words making the United States the sole interpreter of the doctrine but specifically reserving it from the authority of the league.
Softening of the tone of the Shantung reservation, leaving its effect unchanged but avoiding all mention of Japan and China.
Modification of the Lenroot reservation intending to equalize the power of the United States and the British empire so that the United States would have the right to refuse o be bound by an adverse decision in which Britain cast more than oneote.
Raymond Ferguson, c'22, was helped up by a negro at Ninth and Ohio streets at 10:30 o'clock Monday night and robbed of $70.
The Washburn Ichabads will arrive in Lawrence Thursday to tangle with the Kansas Jayhawkers on the court Gymnasium, Thursday night.
Holdup Man Gets $70
From Raymond Ferguson
Washburn Will Tangle With Kansas Thursday
Ferguson was on his day *G* to town and as he approached the Colored City, he noticed the streetlights he noticed a man walking slowly as if he had lost something. When he caught up with the man a pistol was thrust against him and he heard a command to put up his hands. He hardly had time to comply by.
He hardly had time to comply by. He nearly had discovered the money in his vast pocket and was waiting for the police. The police have found no trace.
The Ichabods are reported strong in basketball this year as their entire football team of last fall has dosed basketball trunks for practice. "Dutch" Lonborg, captain and guard on the Kansas State will be put into the game on day night due to injuries but "Scoop" Olson who replaced him Tuesday night will probably take charge of his guard position.
The department of Hispanic languages has received a telegram from Blasco Inanes ranking that he is prevented by illness from keeping his engagement to lecture during the afternoon. It is hoped that it will be possible for him to come here later.
Ibanez Will Not Speak
SENATE ANNOUNCES
SCHEDULE OF EXAMS
Final Semester Quizzes Will Begin Afternoon of January 24
The following schedule of final examinations for this semester was adopted by the Senate Tuesday afternoon:
3:50 classes Saturday m. p. Jan. 24
8:50 classes Monday a. m.Jan. 24
10:30 classes Monday p. m. Jan. 26
10:30 classes Tuesday a. m. Jan. 28
11:30 classes Wednesday a. m. Jan. 28
1:50 classes Wednesday a. m. Jan. 28
9:30 classes Thursday a. m. Jan. 29
Odd classes Thursday a. m. Jan. 29
Two-hour classes, and 1-hour classes
meeting on Tuesday or Thursday
will be examined from 10:50 to 12:30,
if scheduled for the morning; from
3:50 to 5:30 if scheduled for the afternoon.
Three-hour classes, and 1-hour classes
meeting on Monday, Wednesday,
or Friday, will be examined from 8:30
to 10:30, if scheduled above for the
morning; from 1:30 to 3:30 if scheduled
for the afternoon.
Laboratory classes will be examine at the time corresponding in the sched to the first laboratory period, or at the time corresponding to the letter of the each hour exists, at the discretion of the head of the department concerned.
Oid classes not otherwise provided for will be examined as scheduled on Thursday afternoon from 1:30 to 3:00 for 1 and 2 hour courses from 1:30
Students wishing to take entrance examination should apply to Prof. E. F. Stimpson, Room 202 Blake Hall, on or before Friday, January 23, as shown in the arranged. The name, street address, and telephone number is necessary.
PRIZES FOR STORIES
Quill Club Offers $25 to Students for Original Plots
"I interest in real literary work dead at K. U?" *not*, answers Quill Club, which is announcing $25 in prizes for the short story contest to end January 25. The amounts offered are second prize, the second prize, $8; and third prize, $8.
The short story must have a definite, although not necessarily a complete plot. Any undergraduate student in the University, excepting members of Quill are eligible for the competition. The judges will be formally presented from the parterns of English and Journalism.
The short story winning first prize will be published in the February number of the Oread Magazine. Those stories may also be published in later issues.
Manuscripts are to be left in the English office, Room 201, Fraser Hall. They are to be written on one side only, on white paper 8-1-2 x 11 inches. Title only is to appear at head of story. On a separate sheet attached to the manuscript, give the street address, telephone number. These sheets will be removed before the manuscripts are handed to the judges so they will not know the names of the authors.
Three Hundred Dead in Mexico Earthquake
Mexico City, Jan 7—Unofficial estimates today placed the total dead in Saturday night's earth quake at three hundred in the state of Veracruz which apparently felt the greatest force of the quake.
(United Drawn)
Reflux trains were being runed into the stricken area which centers Anakap. Discovery of additional bodies in the area has there to one hundred it was estimated.
COOPERATION IN DRIVE FOR FUNDS IS PROMISED
Director of Athletics' Favors Proposed Commons and Stadium
Campaign Has Two Heads
Stadium Site to be Selected Before Drive is Launched
The Athletic Board campaign for a million dollars for a stadium, and the Loyalty Campaign for a million dollar stadium and student union Memorial, will not conflict in any way, according to Furrest C. Allen, Director of Athletics and Prof. P. E. Signer, the originator of the Loyalty Campaign.
Both stadiums and student union buildings were visited by Dr. Allen and Prof C. C. Williams on their trip to the east during the holidays, and Dr. Allen expressed himself as heartily in favor of both a common or student building and a stadium building. The greatest of both was greatest of K. U.'s needs were the two structures proposed by the Loyalty movement.
Prof. Melvin said that those in charge of the Loyalty Movement and the Athletic Board were co-operating in raising the money for a stadium, although the two organizations would be on the same goal by different means.
The department of athletics, according to Dr. Allen, will first select a site for the stadium, and then begin a drive for the necessary funds, without interfering with the Loyalty drive, which will proceed independently.
"JOLLIES AND FOLLIES"
HAS HILL CHORUSES
University Students to Join Town People in Staging Jollies and Follies of 1920
Choruses and soloists which will present "Jolies and Follies of 1920" to be given at the Bowersock, January 12 and 13, have been chosen largely from University students, and there will also be choruses formed by grade school children and high school girls.
The show is to be given under the auspices of the Chamber of Commerce, in order to raise funds for the rest room.
The Minstrel Act promises to be the most interesting feature. Carl Friend will be the principal character in this act, with Prof. Arthur MacMurray as interlocutor. The plot is that a party has been planned by the Chamber of Commerce for Mr. Murray to enter MacMurray has been appointed as Chairman of the Social Committee. In this capacity he discovers that there is to be a wedding in the college smart set, and invites the happy couple to have their wedding at the entertainment to be given. The bridesmaids are to be minstrels, half of them married to each other half as men. A "womaniess" wedding acts, in which Prof. MacMurray acts as interlocutor.
"The Red Rose of No-Man's Land." a patriotic tableau, given entirely by those who were overseas, will be the first number on the program. Miss Amy Mora will serve in the veteran nurse, and Col. H. D. Burdick will sing solos for this tableau.
A chorus of K. U. women with what Merry, Berry director, terms as "stampy costumes" will give "Larve with the choreo," and with the choreo, will singing "I'll be your once in awhile," and Karl Stauder will sing "Good-bye, Dear Old Bachelor Days." The whole chorus will give the fox trot, and sing the vamp.
With a see-naw composed of red roses and electric lights, Irène Serry and Karl Staunfer will sing "Life is a See-Saw." Miss Florence Burrows will sing "Life Is a See-Saw." Holen Topping, will give an aesthetic dance, "Dance Espagnol."
The students comprising the various choruses will be announced later.
Prof. Davis to Speak
Prof. W. D. Wavis of the department of history will speak "on Red Cross Work in the Battle Area" at the University Club Friday, January 9 at 8:30 o'clock.
This week's movie bills include "An Adventure in Hearts," "Please Get Married," and "Male and Female." Sounds like kaep year!
A Graduate Student But Didn't Know
With a degree granted to him for the last eighteen months and knowing nothing about it, a K. U. student has been carrying an average schedule all of this semester intending to receive his degree in January. Tuesday he went to the registrar's office to make sure of his credits and was informed that the degree had been granted to him in the spring of 1918.
He was in the service and it is probable that the degree was granted to him during his absence and that notice of it failed to reach him.
Tragic headline in the Kansas City Star: "He Fancied Other Fireplaces." Most fireplaces are fancies these days.
Plain Tales From The Hill
Headline in the Kansas City Stary "Will Hurry up to Twelfth Street." Somehow or other it never occurred to me that Twelfth Street was particularly slow.
Chicago University reports a strike by one of the professors. This profit refuses to teach classes that include more than 15% costing more than his year's salary.
A woman in the senior class remarked disgustedly, "Just when the time had come when I could keep my feet on her ground with ease it had to snow again.
A Mitchell County man was in sympathy with Porta's end-of-the-world prediction. He purchased white robes for every member of his family in which garb they were to meet the judgment day. The head of the family has no faith now in science and has taken his children out of school.
A senior was discovered the other day, who after signing registration cards for four years on the Hill in 2015, joined University in Jackson County.
“K. uwn women to have found their sphere at last,” said the Old Grad. “They’re going to issue a squirrel print this week.”
Sign on a down town grocery store:
"Fresh Limburger cheese. Come in."
The women are apparently making the most of the New Year's advantages. Many of them are already flashing new diamonds.
GLEE CLUB TO OTTAWA
Dramatic Club Also Allowed to Give Out of Town Performance
Permission was granted at a meeting of the Senate Tuesday night for the Glee Club to give a concert at Ottawa on Sunday evening, January 18. The petition was presented by Prof. F. E. Kendri, leader of the Glee Club and was passed with little difficulty.
Prof. Arthur MacMurray of the Public Speaking Department also asked permission to allow special casts of students to play in various cities and towns. This proposition was passed by the Senate with the provision that the club stay within a reasonable radius of the University any considerable time from school.
Another all-University concession was decreed for next Wednesday, January 14, at 11:30 in the morning in compliance with a request by Prof. E. F. Engle that the activities of the big Student Volunteer Convention held at Des Moines, Iowa, during the University week known to the University. No other applicant except the adoption of the examination schedule for this semester.
Berger, Ordered Out of Jersey City, Will Sue
MLP, linger congressman-elect. From Bellevue under twenty years education for laying the espionage law, today promised early action against the chief of police of Jersey City who refused to permit him to speak before the socialist educational, club there last night. Mr. Berger was refused permission to enter the building where the speech was scheduled to take place. He was asked if Jersey landing and instructed to "lead" his speech. "I shall see the chief of police of Jersey City to find out if the constitution of the United States still exists in Jersey City—or whatever there left of it as it has been pretty nearly abolished during the war," Berger said upon arrival in Manhattan.
MANY FORMER STARS RETURN FOR TRACK
Pattison, Herriot, and Bradley Brothers Expected to Add Strength to Squad
Workouts Begin This Week
Jayhawkers Have Good Chance to Beat Missouri in Indoor Meet
The work will not be difficult, or excessively fatiging during any period of the training, according to Coach Schadman, but it is necessary for all players to wear gloves through the spring. The second floor of the gym will be available most of the time, while in a couple of weeks the team can begin work on the outdoor boat track which will be an exercise of the track in Convention Hall.
K. U's indoor track season will start this week, when all track candidates will report to Coach Karl A. Schlademann in the gym for practice. From 3:30 on every afternoon except Tuesday the men will work out in the Convention Hall in Kansas City on March 1, and other indoor meet
"Mighty promising material," was the way Coach Scholademan commented on his prospective candidates for track letters, nearly all of whom have pronounced intentions of showing up is week or next for practice.
MARY DISTANCE MEN
The return of the pre-war athletes to the ranks of the truck man is one of the causes of the collapse to the couches, Pattinson, K. U.'s vaulter, and "Junk" Harriet, distance man, being the most notable examples.
The promising Bradley brothers from Oklahoma are sophomores this year, and eligible to compete. Orval is strong in both the quarter and half, and Everett in the dashes and field events.
Captain Loren Dewall, quarter, half, and one-miler, will have the enduring, Eckel, as well as Openocsy, MacMurphy, and Harriot in the events longer than a half mile. Rockey and Dillon each will run a half-mile run, and Mandeville, Rockey and Bradley will be supplemented in the quarter by Marshall Haddock, holder of the Missouri Valley record in the 220-dash, who according to Coach Schlademann, can win valley honors in the quarter and 220 both, for a total of 430 yards. Paul O'Leary will be another attendant for quarter honors.
CHAMPION POLE VAULT IN SCHOOL
In the fifty and hundred Haddock and Schware are the most obvious candidate for variety material. Their like-loom for variety material.
Pattison who holds the K. U. record of 11 feet 8 inches in the pole vault, is in school this year, and will be out for practice soon. Heizer and Wetly are other vault men left over from college, but Bradley is also reported strong in this event. Ralph Rodkey is the only broad jumper left from last spring, but Everett Bradley and Paul O'Leary both have ability along these lines. Welty, Keckey and Jukina are the possibilities for high jumpers, all of whom worked with the squad last spring. Bradley will be the pole vault and high jump last year, will be in both events this year, as far as is known.
Roy Pringle, Hadeock and Bradley will probably be the strongest men in the shot put, javelin and discus, of the old men, although Coach Schadlman says he expects many more new men to try out for both the indoor track this week and outside track later on.
Foreign Y.M.C.A. Workers Will Talk Here Friday
Dr. H. C. Rutgers, National Executive Secretary of the Netherlands Student Y. M. C. A. and H. L. Henri, in charge of Y. M. C. A. a work among foreign students of Great Britain, will speak in Fraser Chapel Friday afternoon. Both are direct from St. John's University Conference at, Des Moines.
Doctor Rutgers and Mr. Henrick will visit two universities and colleges in the United States. Doctor Rutgers is an assistant professor at an American student life in his talk here.
Student Volunteers Return
Katherine and Blanche Robertson,
both c20, arrived Monday night from
Des Moines, Iowa, where they have
been attending the five days' International Student Volunteer Convention. The convention started on December 31.