UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOLUME XVI.
NUMBER 180
Kansas High Schools Sending 200 Entrants For Track-Field Meet
Every Part of State Represented in Contests on McCook Field Saturday
34 Institutions Are On Lis'
Manager Hamilton is Pleased With Interest Taken by Prep Boys
Almost 200 track athletes from thirty-four Kansas high schools have been entered in the state interscholastic high school meet that will be staged on McCook Field tomorrow afternoon by Manager W. O. Hamilton, head of the athletic department. Every part of the state is represented in the meet and some fast competition is expected.
Manager Hamilton is pleased with the great interest that is being taken in the various high school programs. He prefers that later attendances may be expected
very year, because the war has caused the entire nation to realize the essential value of athletics. All of the high school meets held here draw by far the largest number of entries of any held in Kansas or neighboring states.
It is the desire of Manager Hamilton that every student of the University arrange to make the stay of the visiting athletes a pleasant one, so that every one of them will go home praising the premier Sunflower school. The value of making 200 high school boosters for the University over the state cannot be over-estimated, Manager Hamilton believes.
Practically every high school of note in the state has entered a team in the meet, including Kansas City, Lawrence, Topeka, Wichita, Winfield, Ottawa, Iola, and several others. With such a large number of the best high schools in the state competing the success of the meet seems to be assured.
Women's Glee Club Concert May 8, in Fraser
The high schools entered in the meet are: Abilene, Argonia, Blue Mound, Burlingame, Burlington, Eskridge, Florence, Goodand, Harveyville, Iola, Kansas City, Kincaid, Lacygne, Larned, Lawrence, Leavenworth, Maple Hill, Marquette, Neodesha, Ottawa, Perry, Plessanton, Mountain, Valley Falls, Wamago, Wichita, Winfield, Syracuse, Seneca, Stillwell, Topeka, Waverley.
Will Give Realistic Production of Home Town Choir in Village Churches
One of the special stunts in the Women's Glee Club concert, to be given in Fraser Hall Chapel Thursday night May 8, will be a realistic reproduction of the Home Town Choir. This feature will appeal especially to those who have spent considerable time in village churches.
Soloists for the concert will be Lucile Flinney, contralto, and Media VanZandt, soprano. Duet, quartet, and popular numbers by the entire club are being arranged. The club membership is about fifty, including women enrolled in the School of Fine Arts and students from the college who were successful in the competitive tryouts held the first of the year.
The Women's Glee Club sang last Thursday night at the Masonic convention, and will give two short numbers at the state championship debate at Green Hall Friday night May 2. Tickets for the Glee Club concert will go on sale Friday on the Hill, and may be purchased from any member of the club.
May Install Council Wednesday
The newly elected Men's Student Council will probably be installed next Wednesday according to Herschel Washington, president of this year's Council. Ne definite date has been set for installation.
Announcements
The Y, M. C. A. meeting Tuesday at 4:30 o'clock in Myers Hall will be Conference meeting. Everyone interested is invited to attend.
Jessie Wyatt, c'20, Betty Samuel c'20, and Leonore Brownback, c'22 will spend Saturday in Kansas City.
Board of Administration Visits University Today
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS FRIDAY AFTERNOON, MAY 2, 1919.
The Board of Administration, composed of W. N. Mason, Harvey S. Penney and E. W. Hoch, are visiting at the University today. The School of Medicine at Rosedale was visited on Thursday.
The members of the board heard "Dad" Elliott speak at convoction this morning and praised the speaker highly. The board is conferring with Chancellor Strong this afternoon on general conditions at the University
Written for students who are too busy or too lazy to read a paper from outside the campus
Beyond The Hill
Italian troops and war materials are being landed at Sebenico and Zara, on the eastern coast of the Adriatic, according to advices from Spalato. The troops are advancing eastward and Italianes are bringing up re-enforcements to the debarkation line.
Belief was expressed by postoffice officials last night that most, if not all, of the bombs mailed from New York as part of an anarchist May Day plot against the lives of public men had been found. Unusual precautions were taken in Washington to protect cabinet members and court officials from bomb attacks.
The Hungarian government has been overthrown according to Vienna reports published in the Berlin papers.
Munich dispatches say that Bavarian Premier Hoffman has refused another request for an armies, and insists upon unconditional surrender of the communist forces within the city.
Serious May Day riots in the United States occurred for what is believed to be the first time yesterday. Bolshevism and radicals joined hands in noisy demonstration in many of the largest industrial centers of the country, and in Cleveland bloodshed marked the Red Flag parades.
2-Sentence Happ'nings
Ralph Auchard, c19, a former member of the Machine Gun Company of the 137th Infantry, is enrolled in school this quarter. He was in all the drives made by the 137th, and was wounded and gassed in the last part of the Argonne Forest drive. After returning to his company in December, the contract rheumatism and was sent to the hospital, from which he was soon returned to the United States.
The Museum has recently received a young horned owl, found near Lawrence. When the bird attains its full growth it will be mounted, and placed in the collection. A live king snake is also one of the new arrivals.
Prof. W. M. Hekking of the School of Fine Arts will lecture at the Kansas City Baptist Theological Seminary, Kansas City, Mo., Friday night at 8 o'clock on the subject of the "Influence of Religion on Art in the Ancient and Medieval History."
Clark B. Carpenter, 'c15, of Girard is now convalescing in a hospital at Fort Riley, according to information received by Prof. B. L. Wolfe, of the School of Engineering. Carpenter, a lieutenant in the 23rd Engineers, was wounded last September.
Rollin Feitshans, e04, was a caller at Marvin Hall Tuesday. Mr. Feitshans was en route to St. Louis to attend a national convention as delegate from the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce. He is now in the office furniture business with the Los Angeles Desk Exchange, and is also interested in gold mining in the Oakland district.
Prof. W, M. Hekking of the School of Fine Arts will give a lecture with slides on the subject of "The Relation of Fine Arts" to the class in Newspaper 1. Monday morning at 8:30 o'clock.
Col. P. F. Walker, dean of the School of Engineering, and Prof. A. C. Terrill, head of the department of mining engineering, left for the Joplin mining district Thursday. "The Development of Manufacturing Industries in Kansas" will be the subject of an address by Dean Walker in the Baxter Springs Chamber of Commerce auditorium.
"Petroleum" is the subject to be discussed by the Mechanical Engineering Society next Thursday night. J. J. Jakowsky, e20, J. R. Mahan, e19, and J. W. Bunn, e20, will talk.
Art Department Shows Collection of Canvases By California Artists
Decorative Landscapes are Feat ures of First Important Exhibit of Year
Portrays Modernistic Style
Special Free Exhibit Open to Public Announced for
Sunday
An exhibition of thirty canvases of decorative landscapes by three California artists, Vivian F. Springfield, Fannie M. Kerns, and Marjorie Hodges on exhibition in the art department on the third floor of the Administration Building. May 1, will be displayed for two weeks. There will be a special free exhibit open to the public Sunday afternoon from 3 to 6 o'clock.
The collection comes from Los Angeles. The style is original with the artists, the result produced being ultra-imaginative and near-Japanese effect. The color combinations are considered extraordinary by art critics and although the motifs are inspired by Japanese traditional forms, they applied disguises the composition so that the result appears purely imaginative.
A catalogue with numbers, titles and artists is being prepared by Prof. W. V. Cahill, who has charge of the museum, will be ready for visitors Sunday.
The collection includes three presentations of Laguna Beach by the three artists, which are oddly different all through the motif for all three is exactly the same. These are: No. 8, Laguna Beach by V. F. Springfield; No. 21, Laguna Beach by Marjorie Hodges, and No. 10, Laguna Beach by F. M. Kerns.
Among the number is a tree panel, No. 4, by V. F. Springfield, which has attracted considerable comment. It presents a cypress tree on a high cliff by the sea. Other studies include "The Navajo," No. 6, by F. K. Merns. It portrays a group of hills produced in colors which the artist is believed to have taken from a study of the Indian Navajo blankets. The modernist style is emphasized in a composition. But the blues are by V. F. Springfield. In this picture the houses are grouped back of a giant flower which occupies the foreground. A rural scene, No. 24, by Marjorie Hodges, produced in color combinations lighter than those used in the other canvases is entitled, "Spring Blossoms." There are twenty-three other studies.
"This exhibition besides being valuable and instructive to art students should be interesting to University students in general as well as to the people of Lawrence," Professor Cahill said.
University Will Not Join in Victory Loan Holiday
Next Monday has been named as Kansas Honor Day for the Victory Loan, said a letter today from L. C. Davidson, state chairman of the loan committee.
Sheep Skins as Usual,
Says George O. Foster
Diplomas for the graduating class will be of sheep skin as usual this year, according to George O. Foster, registrar. The diploma fee of $5 is the same as in the past. On commencement day, rolls of blank paper will be given to the graduates and they may exchange them for the real sheep skins, providing they have made all their grades, and have paid all their fees.
Chancellor Strong said that because the University already has almost doubled its quota and because 11:30 classes were dismissed last Monday for this same purpose, no holiday would be declared next Monday.
"Fifty thousand subscribers for $50 Bonds or multiples thereof are wanted on that day," said Mr. Davidson. The day is set apart in honor of the soldiers who died on the field of battle. The state committee desires that the mayor declare this day a holiday for the full day, or at least a half day.
Alpha Tau Omega will give a dance
along the steps of Saturday night.
Neodesha Sends Girls'
Team to League Debate
Compulsory Arbitration of Capital and Labor's Difficulties Will Be Discussed
The final debate of the Kansas High School Debating League, will be held tonight in Fraser Chapel at 8 p. m., and not in Green Hall, as formerly announced. The subject of the debate is, "Resolved, That capital and labor should be compelled to settle their disputes in legally established courts of arbitration." Neodesha will uphold the affirmative side and Pratt the negative. A silver loving cup will be awarded by the University to the winning team.
The judges will be Prof. W, M. Dufus, Prof. M, C. Elmer and Prof. H. W. Nutt. The debaters on the Neodeschi team are Evelyn Purkapile, Zada Shipley and Geraldine Fettit. On the Pratt side are Joel P, Eubank, Juelle Heaton and Orlin Bonecutter. All girls' team from Mount Hope won the championship in 1917. The Woman's Gice Club will sing before the debate.
Fifteen Hundred Dollars Worth of Chinese Lanterns Will be Used in Decorating Gym
Soph Hop Decorations Obtained From Doric By Bob Lynn, Manager
Kuhns' Orchestra Will Play
Jean Graham Will Spend Next Week in Disguising Gymnasium
Fifteen hundred dollars worth of Chinese decorations have been obtained for the Oriental party given by the Sophomores in the gymnasium May 9. The decorations, which are a part of the equipment of the new Doric Theater in Kansas City, were arranged for by Bobby Lynn, Hop manager, through the manager of the Doric.
Several hundred Chinese lanters, of the real "honest-to-gooodness" Chinky-hinky kind, but modernized to accommodate the dimmest kind of electric incandescentes, are included in the decorations. Two big Chinese pagodas will be erected in the middle of the Gym floor where the worshippers of Terpsichore (Lynn doesn't know who the Chinese god of dancing was, unless it was Confucius), can bend their knees in respectful supplication and bow their heads over the niche of their beloved ones, all to the unearthly ethereal strains dispensed by Ed E. Kuhn's seven magic genius of harmony.
Decorations will arrive Saturday and work on the Gym will start Monday afternoon. Gene Graham, chairman of the committee on decorations, estimates that it will take the entire week for his company of satellites to do the job right.
A chorus of forty K. U, women have been practicing for the last two weeks under the direction of "Jew" Holmes and "Dot" Engel. A three-course dinner is in process of preparation, and will be served in cabaret style at midnight
The annual banquet of the K. U.
Electrical Engineering Society will be in Myers Hall May 8, and will be prepared and served by women in the department of home economics.
The party is not over when the dinner is served, "Bobby" says, for then 'un just begins. The epigrammists observe that the way to a man's heart s through his stomach, and "Bobby" hinks that this ought to apply to somen also.
K. U. Women will Serve at Engineers' Banquet
Live wire toasts are on the program, which will be non-technical. Each student in the department has the privilege of bringing a woman guest. There will be more than one hundred olates.
Tickets are now on sale. Single admission is $1, and ticket for student and guest is $1.75. The committee in charge of arrangements: Wayne E. Limbocke; e'19; Newton H. Benscheidt; e'19; Carl H. Eckel; e'20; James D. Stranathan; e'21; Harry A. Appleby; e'22.
Send The Daily Kansan Home.
"Dad" Elliott Says College Life Determines One's Future Success
Leader of Men Must Follow Truth Regardless of Cost for a Trimmer and Compromiser in School Will be the Same in Life
Morning Convocation Was Fourth Address
A LAST LINE?
Plain Tales From the Hill
"Ten cents each while they last" says a sign in a downtown window. We wouldn't consider this important were it not in the window of a shoe-shop.
Friendship is Nothing More Than Having a Fair Attitude of Mind—Truth Never Conflicts as There is no Scientific and Religious Truth
Prof. W. A. Dill seems to be advocating childhood marriages. He said in Newspaper class today, "Now a poor orphan child being beaten by his irate father-in-law would make a good human interest story."
A CLOSE SHAVE
The freshman who paid two cents war tax for voting will never be satisfied that it was a clean election.
HOW TRADITIONS ARE MADE A fraternity on the Hill which prides itself in its numerous traditions was horrified to discover recently that an important point of eti quette had been wrongly taught in the organisation for many years. But it didn't phase the brothers a-tall. They have decided not to change it, but will allow this eccentricity to remain in the fraternity as an additional tradition.
"Bing" Ross intended to call the Phi Delta house the other day but became absent-minded and asked for "290." Then later when he dropped in at the A. D. P. house he had to listen most intermetely to the story, and he called him before hung up the receiver without saying anything.
"Must be a dull blade," he muttered, glancing at his safety.
The freshman was shaving. Defth he drew the razor across his cheek. With ease and grace he scraped the hills and valleys of his countenance. Then he felt his face and was surprised to note the number of whiskers still remaining.
"What we are in college is what we are in after life," said "Dad" Elliott in his fourth address to a University audience. "Very few people ever change from their college habits. If you are a trimmer and compromiser in college, you will be the same when you go out into the world. The man who will make a leader of men is the man that follows the truth regardless of the cost. We have too many compromisers of truth in this world, but Leadership is a lonesome job. Jesus was a Leader of men, but he was lonely and in anguish in the garden of Gethsemane, but He was much above the people who surrounded Him, however. He drew them up to Him rather than stooping to them. The lower the standard of truth the more things one has in common with his fellows.
Then his eyes fell on the sharp, shining blade, lying on the edge of the basin. Right there both he and the blade lost their temper.
In the spring the young man's fancy lightly turns to ___
Oh gavwah! what's the use of finishing it. It's too self evident—just take a look at Freddie Leach, the artist, the cheerleader, the jazz hound, et cetera. He's trying to rush another fair one.
The name of Omar Khayyam was mentioned.
"Omar Khayamy" queried the frosh. "Say, does that guy write for the magazines or does he write books?"
The dramatists were planning for their next play. The subject of wigs was under discussion when a girl remarked, "Won't that be nice?" You get to pick out your own hair."
Professor MacMurray shook his shining dome and answered, "It isn't so nice as you think it will be. Some one else has picked out all mine."
Herbert Little, c'21, of Lawrence, will spend the week-end in Kansas City.
FAMOUS LAST LINES Plus War Tax.
"Truth never conflicts with itself. There is no such a thing as scientific truth and religious truth. You must either believe one or the other or strike a fair-minded attitude between them. To be a good friend you must forgive and be able to see mistakes of your own, as if to act as if I were therefore it is nothing more or less than a fair-minded attitude of the mind.
"There must be harmonious association with the person you want as a friend. The greatest and best friendship that a man comes into contact with, is the contact with a good, sweet, honest woman. No greater force ever has been American Army to keep men straight than the women they left behind.
"A friendship that is real is a friendship that is not ashamed. You must serve the person whom you want as a friend. The test of real friendship is the service you are willing to render to your friend.
"Every weak, straddling, anamic pastor you see or hear is a challenge for you University men and women to get into the ministry to unify the forces of righteousness. The friendship that is real is the friendship that is kept up. There is many a father whose son亡 in army camps or France who lost his son ten years ago, because he was too busy with his business or his pleasure to make a pal of his son."
"Dad" ended his talk with a personal appeal to the college students to enter the ministry.
Logs That Go Upstream Are Powerful, Said Dad
"God Almighty surely hates a quitter," said "Dad" Elliott in his speech last night, " and the biggest quitters are in the moral and spiritual world; not in the physical. It is costly to follow the truth, and few are willing to do it.
"Ninety-nine per cent of all men know what they should do, but are not willing to do it," he said. "Take the step that is already clear, hold the rost in suspense, and you'll get surprised at the light you'll get. From the more standpoint of making good it does not pay to be a quitter.
"As for cigarettes, has the war changed the physiological and psychological effects of cigarettes? Cigarette smoking has increased 40 per cent since the war."
Dad said that there are four kinds of men who swear; the ignorant man, the liar, the weakling, and the man who honestly calls dawn on himself the curses of the Almighty. He also touched on the need for honesty, Sabbath observance, and prayer for the well being of the student.
Finally Dad said, "Anybody can go with the crowd, any old rotten log can go down stream, but there is power in the one that goes up the stream; it's no job for a sissy."
A supply of Carnegie handbooks, giving strength of materials, has arrived at the School of Engineering. The handbook is a pocket companion of junior engineers.
Homer Cote, e'17, is now resident engineer for the Central Coal & Coke Company. Huntington, Ark.