BASKETEERS GOING STRONG IN PRACTICE
Varsity Buried Freshmen by 40 to 0 Score in Scrim-
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Laslett Back in Game
Effort Being Made By Coaches To Develop MoreTeam Work
"By the time the Kansas basketball five hits Missouri on January 23 and the Tigers will find that the Jayhawkers will show them a hard game and no walkaway," said Dr. F. C. Allen today. "The team at C. Houston is going to beat him. Empirical Wishan will find tough sledding when they buck up against the Kansas five the first week after vacation."
The style of play being taught the squad this season, according to the coaches, will be one that will make it impossible for any one man to be a star. Teamwork will work in a negative throughout the season. Basket tries from further back than twenty feet will be discouraged and an attempt is being made by the mentors to develop the entire squad into a rapid five basket-producing team well as a scrappy defensive team.
The squad was cut this week to seventeen men and the first scrimmage with the yearlings was held Wednesday. Varsity piled up a total of forty points before the fresh scores of last season, who have turned out for practice so far will be further augmented soon by the addition of Scrubby Laesett, captain-elect for 1918 season, who has not reported as yet. Land Barter, who has been in the coal fields may also be added to the squad. Barter played freshman ball in it 10. Of the seven left, Bestoff forward and Captain Lonjon as a defense man, are showing up unusually well.
Six or eight of the regulars have been asked to return to school early in order to prepare for the Normal School, and many men will be in Lawrence January 1.
The freshman squad is very large and there are still several that are expected out that have not reported. Soon after vacation the process of weeding out the best players will begin. Doctors were vided into two bunches. Doctor Allen will take care of one of them and Ad Lindsay will work with the others
Business Methods Lax At M.U.Says Auditor
Jefferson City, Mo., Dec. 18. The State Auditor's office of Missouri yesterday made report to Governor Gardner recommending that the next legislature make several changes in policies relating to the University of Missouri. The accounts report that there has been a mix up of different appropriations and there are no receipts for pay-roll and bank checks for $39,729.46. The accounts report that the secretary ascribed by the business manager to the lack of extra help.
They said further that disbursement records for 1917 and 1918 had not been footed up, this entailing the employment of an accountant to keep it from falling into his report. They do not claim that the state has lost any money by this faulty method, but found that appropriations had bee wrongly applied and that $501.20 had been paid out of the University funds as premiums on the bonds of employees without any legal authority for such payment.
GERMANY STILL UNREGENER-
ATE
The demonstration in the Potadam garrison church during the service for the German soldiers who fell in the war of 1863 is many simply biding her time to seek revenge for the humiliation she had to undergo. With the officiating clergyman standing on the tomb or Frederick the Great and pledging the surrender, the congregation singin' "Deutschland Uber Alles," there cannot be much regret in their hearts for the iniquitous and inhuman war they forced upon the world. Their only comningly is that it failed in its object.
Germany is today without ships, without money, and with an army that is to a great extent demoralized. It will take her many years to orphan the children of those who her *t*menc to her neighbors that she was before her armies were crushed by the united weight of Christendom. But Germany is a pa- tribute of her war, and a century preparing for the recent war, and if it was not successful it
was not for lack of effort on her part.
She provided for every eventality she could foresee, and she failed only because there were some she overlooked. She sees her mistakes now and is already preparing to remedy them. Given another forty or fifty years fo. preparation, she has to prepare herself and resteness an enemy as she was during the late war. A future generation may have to do all over again the work we thought we had completed—Detroit Free Press.
Pennsylvania Team Wants a 1920 Nebraska Game
Washington, Dec. 18—Washington and Jefferson University may carry the eastern colors to Nebraska next fall. The conquerors of the Syracuse eleven asked the management to give him a giving game, but a game with West Virginia interfered and the Pennsylvanians asked for another date.
Several Differences—The ball had gone over the railings, as balls will in surburban gardens, and a small but powerful gun was pointed at the front door to ask for it.
Then appeared the irate father.
"How dare you show yourself at my house? How dare you ask for your ball? Do you know you nearly killed one of my children with it?"
"But you've got ten children," said the logical lad, and "I've only got one baseball." —Chicago News.
Next! — Miles Poindexter has launched his boom for president. Now that's over—Detroit News.
Latest Little Fad—Bathing has become quite popular with the social et. Albany Ala. News-Argu.
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they can do so we do.
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ARE GOOD DAM SITES ON RIVERS OF STATE
Lawrence "Sitting Pretty on the Dam" Furnishes Lesson for Other Cities
The coal shortage and Lawrence "sitting pretty on the dam" with perhaps the least inconvenience and change in its normal life of any large towns or cities in Kansas furnishes a lesson in the need of more water power to pump it out. J. O. Jones, assistant professor of hydraulic engineering in the University of Kansas, The Blue, the Solomon, the Big Stranger, the Martias des Cygnes and the Smoky Hill all have some excellent dam sites that would afford power for industry or for public use where steam plants, says Professor Jones.
"While Kansas is not a water power state," said Mr. Jones, "there never was a dam that could be used for water power plants. Among there are dam sites on the Blue near Ranaldhp, Irving, Marysville, and Oketo to power 10,000 horse power the year around."
High Price of Coal Induces Installing of More Water Power Plants
Many Rivers Offer Power
"The Little Blue has good power possibilities at Waterville and at Hanover; the one at Hanover under process of development, I understand. The other, under process of development, is that of rebuilding the old dam at Valley Falls on the Delaware.
I ODOLATION OF POWER SUPPRESSES
"On the one hand there are two good sites I know to near Bergenton, the other near Delphos. The Smoky Hill has three good power developments and several undeveloped sites. And there are two good possibilities on the Kaw near kopeka, one three miles above the eighteen miles above the capital.
FEW OPTIMUNITIES ON ARKANSAS
"The Arkansas River offers little chance for water power development.
The stream bed is so wild that it makes the cost of dam construction prohibitible. But there are also poor power streams because they have long low-water periods almost every summer. The Republic is another stream that offers almost nothing in power development because the river's waters alternating with very low water.
"The cost of dam construction is
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HELP'S DURING COAL STRIKE
Lawrence has a water power plant on the Kaw that develops an average of 2,000 horsepower. During the coal minerade, when other towns were forced to adopt the most stringent regulations, he had the water power plant to furnish all the light needed, to run its street cars and, had there been need, to operate the pumps of its water plant.
"Water power plants are practical today where they could not have competed with steam plants a few years ago," Mr. Jones said. "The high price of coal is the cause of this, and no other energy source has stalled of more water power plants, which cost almost nothing to run after the heavy installation costs."
"Maybe so," snarled the possimist, "but it didn't advertise Witchita much as a health resort, did it?"—Wichita Eagle.
"Well," said the optimist, "I'm sorry the President got sick here, but at that Wichita got more advertising throughout the country by it than she would have done he given his address as scheduled."
Assistant Geologist to New Position in Texas
Miss Alva C. Ellisor, assistant geologist in the department of Geological Survey in the University will leave Friday to accept a position as Geologist in the Geological Research Laboratory and Refining Company at Cisco, Texas.
"This position is a better one that I hold here and that is the reason I am going," said Miss Ellisor. "My work
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No doubt you will be back by January 4—so
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First Baptist Church Rev. Frank Jennings, Pastor