MAY 27, 9919. UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN By The Way Personals of the Campus R. A. Rutledge of Topeka, a graduate from the School of Engineering in the class of '91, visited his son Miel on the FI Klapha Alpha house Sunday. Lieut. Ranald DeWitt, who was on the Hill last year is visiting at the Alpha Tau Omega house. He was commissioned in aviation last fall and has been stationed at various fields. He received his discharge Saturday. Lieut. John Hartman, c14, of Junction City was a caller at Marvin Hall Friday. Winfield Liggett, c'20, spent Saturday and Sunday at his home in Kansas City. Ensign Charles L. Suffield, A. M. '17, was a Lawrence visitor Saturday and Sunday. Ensign Suffield is now in charge of soldiers' insurance for the Kansas City district. He expects to be released this summer and will return to the University to enter the School of Medicine. The Rev. Harry V. McColloch, A. B. 16, who recently graduated from the Princeton Theological Seminary, left Saturday for British Columbia to take his work as pastor of three Canadian churches. Reverend McColloch has been visiting his parents in Lawrence for the last week. Henry Gott, c'18, visited Saturday and Sunday with Edward Skatzkoff, c'21. Mr. Gott expects to enroll in the School of Law next fall. De, and Mrs. A. V. Lodge of Kansas City visited their daughter, Margaret Lodge, Saturday. They came to attend the MAY Fete performance. Mrs. W. T. Derington of Hunnewell is visiting her daughter Velma Derington. Mrs. W. H. Brown, of Kansas City visited her daughter, Dorothy Brown, from Friday to Sunday, attending the May Fete performance. Miss Bernice Newton of Baldwin spent Saturday and Sunday with Nell Hohn at the Achooth house. Laurence Miller, L. L. B.'17, of Horton visited at the Beta Theta Pi house Saturday and Sunday. He saw twenty-one months service overseas. He will practice law in Kansas City. James M. Scott of Rosedale visited at the Beta house Saturday and Sunday. Helen Spradling of Ottawa, visited Miriam Merritt, fa'19, at the Mu Pih Epsilon house Saturday and Sunday Mrs. Ruth Brandle-Boerstler spent Saturday and Sunday at her home in Chanute. Miss Sarah Martin of Emporia was the guest of Helen Pefer at the Sigma Kappa house Saturday and Sunday. Wallace Armstrong, c'20, spent Saturday and Sunday at her home in Kansas City. Pi Kappa Alpha entertained for the annual Fathers' Day at the chapter house Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Moore of Hutchinson, cause to visit their daughter, Eather Moore, c'19, at the Kappa house and to attend the May Fete. Mrs. Armel of Humbolt is visiting her son Nat and her daughter Dorothy. Keep From It Iris Russell, c'20, will spend Wednesday at her home in Kansas City Missouri. Lieut. Carl Anderson, A. B.'14, of Kansas City visited at the Beta house last week. Shower for Margaret Haworth Irene Cutter, c'20, and Ruth Strong, fa'22, will entertain with a miscellaneous shower at Irene Cutter's home Wednesday afternoon in honor of Margaret Haworth, c'20, whose engagement to Gere Stodder, e'19, of Burden was announced last Thursday. The wedding date is set for June 18, at Miss Haworth's home in Lawrence. She is a member of Chi Omega and Mr. Stodder is a member of Sigma Alpha Epsilon. Kappa Mothers' Day Dinner The guests 'at the Mother's Day dinner of Kappa Kappa Gamma Saturche were Mr. and Mrs. Moore of Hutchinson, Mrs. Rankin of Idana, Mrs. Lutz of Kansas City, Mrs. Pritchard of Topeka, Mrs. Pullman and Miss Catherine Pullman of St. Joseph, Missouri, Mrs. Clark of Kansas City, Missouri, and Mrs. C. F. Fogarty and Mrs. R. E. Melvin of Lawrence. Mrs. J. H. Burns of Wichita is the guest of her daughter, Jessie Burns, c'22, at the Pi Phi house. Alpha Omicron Pi held initiation Sunday for Mina Schenck of Burlingame. Jus' Mus' Write Vers Libre When Draggy Feeling Comes Lyre Twangers Find it Easier to Write Blankety-blank Verse in Spring Time Than to Keep From JI Over his typewriter keys the poet. Has an idea but when he starts to throw it. Ambition leaves him like n bird upon the wing. He struggles with his evoking mind. But soon affer fever gets him or No. Just one thought his poem leaves behind; It's easier to write free verse than that. —The Modern Sir Launfal. Free verse seems to be the spring fever meter. The only man who ever tried to rhyme a poem of the yawn type gace it up after a few lines. He was Melvin Ryder, and made the experiment in his book, "Rambles Round the Campus." Here it is; I wish I was a rock, a sittie on a hit both I was a rock, cottong on a hill, A-down"mim all day long but just a little more. wouldn't eat. I wouldn't sleep. couldn't open whistle. I'd just lay still the whole day long. . . Then he quit because it was too much trouble to think of a rhyme for "whistle!" Charles Erskine Scott Wood probably didn't have enough peep to write all his own name the day he composed the following bit of blankey-blank verse. He might have called him "the writer," but preferred to write it nonmatterly. To me, life is to sit on these stone steps. Under the peach-tree, eating green almonds. Watching the indolent shadow arabesques Shift on the terrace; While you couch on the coping of the On cushions of velvet from old Veen pien. Reading Endymion. Reading Endymion. Go from the city far below Up from the city this weekend Comes the noon-scream of whistles It probably wasn't that tired feeling which caused Walt Whitman to adopt the easiest road to poetry, for his writings take a much more determined attitude than those of the modern spring rhymist, but even he succumbed once. In his "Song of My Self," he says: I loaf and invite my soul, 1 loot and 1 loot and loaf at my ease observing 2 some summer grass. Edgar Lee Masters of "Spoon River" fame, is affected somewhat differently from the others by spring fever. He tells it this way: I used to lose myself as if in sleep. By lying with eyes hail-open in the Someone I tailed with animals—even and ankowns. Anything that had an eye to look into. Once I saw a stone in the guildsite. Lola Ridge writes feelingly of chiggers and allied pests when she describes her sensations before taking sarsaparilla: 1. smelled the raw sweet essences of almonds. And beard spiders in the leaves. And tickling of little teeth. things, And heard spiders in the leaves. And tickling of little feet. As thy creatures came out of then To see God pouring light into his star, it seemed life held Day dreams bring up visions of ancient times for Ezra Pound and he begins a long piece of epic free verse in this style of cubist verse: It seemed rare now. No future and no past for me but this. Carl Sandburg also goes to ancient history of his vers libre subject matter. He calls his work "Assyrian Tableta", and in his book of the Assyrians proverb much different from the moderns; Alba, your kings, and the realm you folk have constructed with such im bent on combined phonics. The water dripping from Rubberphone? No. in shade. It had been seen in the shade, recounted on combined Hollon. Dilbea, I was in Babylon on Saturday night. Wallace Gould is so nearly overcome by sleeping sickness that he can't summon enough strength to push down the "Cap" key on his typewriter at the first of his lines. He calls his book *The Poems of Poems* and has nothing to indicate whether the following is a chansho or a poem: —and all the new things drenches with dust of rain. I was at the old place and the other girls were there. Shall be yawned out on my lyre. girls were in But no Bilben. You kissed me once. night. I saw nothing of you anywhere. with days of rain steaming beneath a triumphant sun-steaming and glowing for miles and miles You kissed me once. But if you kiss me again Because you kissed me once, I will kill you. hills of glowing green, swamps of glowing greet and miles hills of glowing green. wind of the sea, the uncommanded wind. all swept by the wind so like the wind of the sea. Alice D. Lippman doesn't write fillers for "Snappy storise," but what is supposed to be high grade versa librale for "Poetry: A Magazine of Verse." That's where she gets rid of this: would take great perspiciety to understand it. In case o f fanother alleged poet, Robert M. McAlmon, spring fever leprosy, who had a series of effusions in which he tells what ho would do with an airplane. This is a fair sample, quite approprie- tive to the situation, who would take great persuciency to un- The heat is apparently too great for William Carlos Williams, who turns out enormous quantities of lice-creature similar to the following verse, entitled "The Gentle Man." It takes a little while to come from it than to write things like this; Piriformes My plane To the moon's Porifere Papillionaceous Lingera in its aura's Phosphorescence: That mutable air of pectolite, O plane polythelite! I see the stress of my own fingers. On my own neck as I place my collar. And think pittingly of the kind Women. I have known. Moral: Spring is a dangerous time for poets. Perpetual Spring Fever Added to Joys of South Students Now Suffering Lassi tude Should Extend Symp a thes to Hookworm sufferers Students who find in themselves a growing lassitude towards study or serious effort of any kind in these warm spring days, may feel somewhat the way natives of the South who are infected with the much-lauded-at hookworm parasite feel for the entire period of their lives. The hookworm disease is a negligible factor in Kansas, as climatic conditions prevent the proper cultivation of the parasite, which is so prevalent and well-nourished in the southern part of the United States, where scientists say, more than 90% of the rural population is infected. The hookworm is an intestinal parasite positively identified as the cause of the so-called tropical anemia, which prevents the development of the treemendous intestine. The larvae of the hookworm is derived from the shape of the head, which forms a hook with the rest of the body by which it is enabled to imbed itself in the side of the human intestine, and remain there, taking the digested food for itself, and causing the loss of nutrition on the part of its host. The hookworm may enter the body through the mouth or the pores of the skin, but only the latter method is of importance in study of the disease. The eggs of the parasite are hatched in organic substance in the open air, and they move into the rect contact. Usually this contact is caused by the people walking bare-foot on the ground. The embryo hookworm enters the blood through the side of the veins, and is circulate throughout the system, finally being sent through the digestive tract to the intestines, where the head of the animal hooks itself on the soft lining of the intestinal canal. The hookworm parasite, named by the scientists, Americanus Necator, (American Murderer) has been the subject of much investigation in the last decade, particularly by the Rockefeller Foundation, which has set aside a separate fund to carry on extensive researches in this subject. Lawrence Merchants See Business Leaks Movie A lecture last night by W. F. Brennan on "Business Methods," given at Fraternal Aid Union Hall, was attended by University students and an effort is now being made to induce him to give his lecture on Mount Oread. Mr. Brennan recently gave the same talk to students at the University of Missouri. He represents a cash register manufacturer. Mr. Brennan showed the money leaks in a profitable business by motion pictures and colored slides. According to Bradstreet and Dun $164,000,000 have been lost in the retail failures in the United States in 1918, and these failures have been in a large part because of small leaks. The main part of the program was a 3-part film showing the troubles of a merchant and how he could offset them. Mr. Brennan brought out a number of good points in suggesting efficient management of a retail business. He suggested a school for employees, no matter how small the store, and thus teaching the salespeople the value of accuracy, realness, courtesy and honesty in dealing with salesman and acquaintance with many of his customers as possible, learn to talk quality — not cheapness — to a buyer, handle complaints carefully and learn to realize the power of suggestion. Mr. Brennan is now at Newton and will go from there to Wichita. He is as yet undecided about making a decision, but he is not the address to the University students. BOWERSOCK TUESDAY WEDNESDAY A. H. Woods presents in Cleves Kinkead's enormous stage success Fannie Ward "COMMON CLAY" Plan Student Government for 1919 Summer Session A special feature of ultra quality seven parts. Beyond question Common Clay is the biggest attraction that has been offered in many months. The office of adviser of women for Miss Alberta Corbita will be held by Miss Alberta Corbita. --in "We are planning to work out the plans that we have had this winter more in detail in the summer session, and we think that the smaller body of students will make this possible," said Miss Corbin today. "Denn Kelly and I have talked to the school that they shall have student government this summer. Of course that will be for the students to say. "We are planning for a committee of student affairs, composed of both students and faculty, to handle the social affairs of the summer. This committee will meet soon and will formulate some definite plans. The session will offer different roles to the winter on account of the weather, but we want to make the summer session a success socially as well as in other ways." Miss Florence Whitcher of Concordia and Miss Edna Yetter of Junction City, PA, be guests of Edith Blake, 29, to Delta Plain House Friday and Saturday. Stadium Would Cost $15 to $30 Each Seat (Continued from page 1) COST OF ATHLETIC STADIA | Structure | Year | Total | Cost per seat | | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | | Yale Bowl | '16 | 60,600 | 448.00 | | Princeton | '16 | 10,000 | 440.00 | | Tacoma | '16 | 24,000 | 147.00 | | Washington | '16 | 43,000 | 10.20 | Coulson '12 5,600 32,000 5.70 Harvard '12 6,200 32,000 5.70 University of California '14 8,000 32,000 13.30 University of Alabama '14 8,000 32,000 13.30 *information received by telegraph; probability error in transmission. Boston '12 24,400 600,000 24,000 New York City College '15 | 7.00 | 250.00 | 35.70 Lehigh '14 | 12.00 | 125.00 | 10.40 Syracuse '07 | 20.00 | 500.00 | 25.00 Drake '05 | 10.00 | 15.00 | 1.50 State College '07 Mat. 2:30----4:00 Dorothy Gish in "I'll Get Him Yet" For a quick lunch on that hiking or camping trip use STERNO canned heat. Rankins Druk Store.—Adv. VARSITY—BOWERSOCK C. E. ORELUP, M. D. Eye, ear, nose, and throat. Glass work guaranteed. Phone 445. Dick Building—Adv. Today When planning your class parties don't forget Wiedemann candies and pure cream. We will be glad to figure with you. Wiedemann...Adv. Night 7:30----9:00 Fanny Ward Also Burton Holmes Travel Today Wednesday "Common Clay" At the VARSITY tomorrow GEO. WALSH in "HELP! HELP! POLICE!" Landladies Don't let your rooms be Empty This Summer Nearly 700 in Summer School, they will want Room and Board Call K. U. 66 for an ad in the first Summer Session Kansan Insure Your Rooms