UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOLUME XVI.
NUMBER 122
No Flowers! No Taxis!
No Formality! Whatever
Is Junior Prom Cry
Governor Henry J. Allen, Mrs Allen and Henrietta Allen Will be Here
Larkin Will Decorate Hall
A Trio of Dinners Will be Served Starting at 10 o'Clock
"No flowers! no taxi! Nothing formal whatever!" said Charles Shofstall, manager of the Junior Prom today, when asked what would be the rules governing the party. The music will start at 7:30 o'clock and stop at 1 o'clock. The Prom will open with the grand marche at 7:30 o'clock, led by Governor Henry J. Allen. Mrs. Allen and Henrietta Allen will also attend the
"Nearly 2000 feet of electric wire has been obtained for the night sky effect in the Junior From decoration," said Edgar L. Hollis today, "The gymnasium will have cozy cormers with pillars in three and swung walls to make it look like a ball. The floor will be put in the best possible shape for the big party."
Mr. Lankin of Kansas City, Mo., is to have charge of the decorations and has worked out an ingenious scheme for disguising the gymnasium as a dance hall, according to "Chuck" Schoffall, manager.
Dinner will be served in three reels beginning at 10 o'clock. The menu will be fruit cocktail, mint jello, chicken salad a la Prom, hot rolls, country butter, olives, pickles, coffee, ice cream, cake.
Tickets may be bought from the following: Arthur Lonorg, Edgar L. Hollis, Gail Wilson, Loren Simon, Joe Schwartz, Harold Hoover, Dorman O'Leary, George Nettles, Robert Albach, Pete Jones, Ernest Kugler, Luther Hangen, Alvin Torrey, Chuck Schofstall, Jack Sterling, Marvin Harms and Roland Hill.
Alumni Ask Opinion on Permanent Memorial
Questionnaire is Included in April Issue of the Graduate Magazine
"Do you favor some sort of permanent war memorial at the University?"
A questionaire on the proposed war memorial at the University of Kansas is being sent out to alumni by Prof. George C. Shaad, vice-chairman of the memorial committee, through the April issue of the Graduate Magazine. A reply is requested to the following questions:
"Assuming that funds must be raised largely through public subscription throughout the state, would you be in favor of attempting to raise a sum of between two and three hundred thousand dollars for this purpose?"
"What are you suggesting as to the form which a memorial should take?
Announcements
Prof. A. M. Wilcox will be in the Classical Museum Wednesday from 10:30 o'clock to 11:20 o'clock to lecture on the objects exhibited there. Also welcome who have no work at that hour.
C. E. Johnston
The morning section of the ornithology class will meet at 7 o'clock Wednesday morning in Snow Hall for a field trip.
The Social Committee of the freshman class will meet tonight at eight o'clock.
Paul K. Smith, chairman.
There will be no swimming for women the remainder of the week due to the lack of alum. Without this chemical the filter is unable to clearify the water and make it sanitary. The pool will doughtless be ready for use Monday, April 28th.
Hazel H. Pratt,
Bim Bambda Theta will meet tonight
at 7:30 o'clock in room 110 Fraser .
Mayor Kreeck Says Shimmey Must Stop
Hereafter dancers within the limits of this city must dance. They shall not shimmy.
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS TUESDAY AFTERNOON, TPRIL 22, 1919.
Mayor George Kreeck has issued an official proclamation prohibiting the shimmy in Lawrence. Dancers are liable to inspect by city officers, and violations of the order will be reported. The penalty was not specified, but action will be taken in case the order is disregarded.
In spite of the fact that shimmying in Lawrence is the mildest possible variety, according to authorities who have seen the real thing in the East, the mayor believes his order is necessary.
"Some of the imitations of the lance in dance halls not used by University people are pretty bad," he said. "That will have to be stopped."
The question of Italian claims was not disposed of at the meeting of the Council of Four Monday. Neither Foreign Minister Sapirno appeared.
Written for students who are too busy or too
ly read to take a paper from outside the campus
The Japanese Naval program for the fiscal year is for two battleships, two cruisers, eight destroyers and seven submarines.
Beyond The Hill
Detroit Claims Distinction of being the first large city to go over the top in the Victory Liberty Loan Campaign. The subscriptions reached 57 million dollars, against a quota of $55,598,413.
Deputy United States marshals seized 24,400 dressed chickens, valued at more than $13,000 from the Missouri Valley Cold Storage Company in Kansas City, Mo. Monday. The United States District Attorney's office charged that the chickens were shipped to Kansas City by a Leayenworth concern which placed them in cold storage last November. Under the complaint filed it is charged that the fowls were filed for food.
This Year
Thirteen Graduates Have Obtained Positions
Salaries Have Increased from 15 to 25 Per Cent This Year
Thirteen graduates of 1919 have obtained positions as teachers through the Teachers' Registration Bureau under the direction of John. Johnson and Education.
Requests for teachers of the various branches come to the office from all over the state. Students wanting positions file their applications at the office. Salaries have increased from 15 to 25 per cent during the year, said Professor Johnson.
Prof. E. L. Treace of the department of bacteriology will lecture on general bacteriology to Dr. C. F. Nelson's pharmacy classes Wednesday and Friday. Doctor Nelson has gone to Baltimore to attend a meeting of the Physiologists and an Anatomists Society.
A Memorial Number of the Sour Owl appeared on the campus early this morning. The Owls voted unanimously for a stadium as a fitting memorial for our soldiers and edited this paper to set forth their arguments. Ten reasons are given for it, public opinion is quoted in favor of the stadium, and an illustration of the Yale Bowl is given.
The following graduates of this years class have obtained positions:
Corine Lesh, Columbus; Eva Robinson, Josephine Montague, Rachel Bell, and Agnes Gossard, El Dorado; Wealthy Babeck and Ruth Stevenson, Noodsha; Margaret Widdow, Murray Gilkerson, Benton; Ruth Woods and Ruth Gibson, Horton; and Lora Taylor, Concordia.
Three thousand copies, which were distributed on the campus and at the Chamber of Commerce, were published. The staff consisted of Basil Church, Marvin Harms, Glenn Banker, John Montlett, and Fred Leach.
Memorial Owl Issued to Boost for Stadium
James Tisley of Kansas City, who attended the University last quarter was a guest of Elise Coons, c'21, and Carl Coons, c'21, Sunday.
Architects' Year Book With Cuts of Winning Designs Out Saturday
Large Number of Fine Half
tones Runs Cost of
Edition to $1200
The Year Book of the Architectural Society at the University of Kansas, with the exception of the Jayhawker the most costly annual published on the Hill, will be off the press Saturday, it was announced today. Because of the large number of fine half-tone illustrations, the cost of issuing the book is approximately $1,200.
The contents will consist chiefly of the winning designs of architectural students in the Beau-Arts Institute of Design, New York. The seniors and juniors will be represented by Projet, the sophomores by Analytique, and the freshmen by freehand work. A special feature will be a cut of the prophecy with a touch of approach, with green houses and botanical gardens, designed by Hare and Hare, landscape architects, Kansas City, Mo.
The book, which has sixty-four large pages, is being printed by the Union Bank Note Company of Kansas City, which had the contract for the 1910 Jayhawker. Engravings were made on the cover of Engraving Company of Kansas City, Cameo-ivory paper is used, with buckle cover.
Fifty or sixty national advertisers have financed the book. There is practically no local advertising. Eleven Lawrence business men, however, contributed $10 each toward the expense of publication.
The 1,000 copies of the Year Book will be distributed to prominent architects and contractors, to accredited high schools of Oklahoma, Nebraska, Missouri, and Kansas, and to all architectural schools in the United States.
"The success of the publication is due primarily to the untiring efforts of LaForce Bailey, instructor in the department of architectural engineering," said Prof. Goldwin Goldsmith today.
The staff in charge of the Year Book is as follows: Ernest Pickering, e'20, ediobr; J. Leland Benson, e'20, assistant editor; Harold O. Beisner, e'20, business manager, and William M. Iceenhower, e'20, assistant business manager.
2-Sentence Happ'nings
Charles Boughton, e19, is in the Jones hospital recovering very nicely from the burns he received about the feet, hands and face when he rescued his father from the fire in their home at 2127 Barker, Sunday.
George Flilley, a student in the University "10 to '15, was in Lawrence Monday on his way to his home at Irving. He had just received his discharge from the tank corps.
George P. Bunn, a junior mechanical engineering student at the University in 1915, visited his brother John W. Bunn, e20, a the Beta house Saturday, Mr. Bunn has been teaching in the high school at Porter. He expects to move to Lawrence in June and resume his work in the School of Engineering next fall.
The newly initiated members of the Snow Zoology Club are entertaining the other members with a picnic this evening on the golf links.
Dr. C. S. Nelson, professor of pharmacy, is in Baltimore, where he will read two papers before the Association of Biological Chemists meeting at John Hopkins University.
Summons are being sent out from the registrar's office to the seniors, asking them to report to that office to make application for their degree. At the office they fill out a card giving the degree for which they are candidates, class, home address, thesis subject and name in full as it will appear on the diploma. The registrar checks up all grades to ascertain the complete eligibility of the senior for degree.
The Entomology Club initiated four men at a picnic last week. They were Nat Armel, Ira Landon, Harry Clark, and Perry Glick.
Manager W. O. Hamilton announced today that Kansas would likely enter a track team in Chicago meet.
Silent Police Are Good Detectives and Protect Lawrence, Says Mayor
Thirty unknown and unsuspected detectives have been supplementing the Lawrence police force in preserving law and order since January 1. Among them are several faculty members. Half of the force is made up of women.
Faculty Members on Force to Watch Over University and Mount Oread
They form Mayor George Kreeck's "silent police," and the results of their service are beginning to show, the mayor believes. Lawrence is the first city to organize its civic-minded citizens into a body to help protect the community, but inquiries about the results of the experiment have come under fire. A report of its net results may be issued soon to the interested communities. The mayor originated the idea of the new organization.
"The system has had extraordinary success," Mayor Kreecek said today. "Each member of the silent police is sworn to secrecy and no member knows who any other member is. Members are always watching for situations and conditions which could not be reached or remedied in the ordinary run of police service. They write in complaints, and usually no arrest is made. Instead, the guilty party is called to my office, and in personal conference, the matter is adjusted. Many of the persons reported are juvenile offenders."
"One case that came up was that of three small boys who had been smoking cigarettes. A silent policeman, who happened to be the mother of one of the boys, reported the case, and I called the boys in and talked to them. None of them could imagine where the policeman who saw him had placed his hands, as the boys said they always watched for the wearer of the star. Since the conference, there has been no more smoking.
"Sometimes we get news of more serious matters. A raid on a liquor distributor's place was made possible by information gathered by the silent police. The University is well protected by the force, for some of its members are on the faculty. Not many offenses have been reported from the Hill, however. The chief value of the work has been in handling the juvenile cases. Lawrence is badly handicapped in this respect because the state law says the probate judge shall hold juvenile court, but only when it does not interfere with his other duties. His attention to children's cases is necessarily a secondary matter, and the silent police have filled that great need in this city.
University Over Quota On First Day Of Loan
Chairman Expects Kansas to Double Iits $20,000 Subscription for Victory Bonds
Miss Sylvia Treat, c21, and her mother have gone to Camp Doniphan to the bedside of her brother, Lieut. Burnett Treat, who is dangerously ill with pneumonia. Lieutenant Treat was a student in the School of Engineering in 1916-17.
K. U. went $2,950 over its Victory Loan quota of $2,000 the first day and with three University buildings yet to hear from, U. G. Mitchell announced today. Mr. Mitchell's report as head of the University drive was made at a uncken at the Chamber of Commerce, given to the Victory Loan workers by T. J. Sweeney, was received with enthusiasm. J. R. Holmes, chairman of the Fifth Liberty Loan Campaign in Douglas County, said he believed the University would "repeat" and double its quotas, as it has done in previous Liberty Loan and Red Cross campaigns.
The Victory Loan is next.
"Sure, we're going to double our quota, which is $20,000," Mr. Mitchell said. "Many persons on the Hill have not had a chance to subscribe and four whole buildings had not turned in their reports at noon today. With those four buildings reporting an increase over their quotas and with the late subscriptions coming in we ought to double it. We must double it to keep up our reputation."
MaybeJawns Gratitude WasTooDeepior Words
Fellers, here's one on our own John M. Shea, K. U. gardner. John M. was trying to drive a new government car from the Phi Kappa house into Tennessee Street, Monday, when he lost control of the car and after pushing through the shrubbery which separated it from the road, he front the Phi Kappa front yard landed in a mud hole behind the Kappa Sig house.
The Phil Kappas did not have enough men to get John out and called on the neighborly Kappa Sigs. Well, the Kappa Sigs have enough men to get anyone out of any mud hole. After pulling the KU. gardner out John looked around in his solitary way and said with a pained expression, "Well, she spum $5.00 worth of rubber off the tires" and drove off. A Kappa Sig piped out "you're welcome," as he rode away, but John M. was too irritated to see the joke and drove carefully down the drive with both brakes set.
Plain Tales From the Hill
The Sour Owl.
XASPERATING THINGS TO THE PROFITS
A student who stalls from day to
ay and expects to get by.
The Same Owl
The Daily Kansan. (When it reports things about the profs.)
Any student. (This bars all Phi Beta Kappas.)
A man who cuts his five hour three times a week.
To be asked to chaperon a dance.
First stude; Whatya cuttin' across the campus fee?
Second stude: Sonly way we ever will get rid of these peaky dandelions, anyway, these walks were not made to use but only to help the landscape gardner beautify the campus.—I. Seyman Hicks.
DAILY DRAMAR
Time: 10:30.
Act I. Miss Ina Flapper sees a young man dressed a la Phi Psi.
" isn't be cute."
Act II. Entomology class on field trip near dog kennels. Miss Ima Flapper sees mangy Airdale dog. "Isn't he cute."
Stage Setting: Entomology room with entomology class in session.
Dave Steinle, commonly called "Shorty," is all that his nickname implies. And what is more he revents any implication that he is small, and hence weak. He now wears a sour look whenever any one asks him to raise a window.
Moral. Heeza anonomous. It's there, freshie, Do you get it.
The reason: Stenile saw a woman in a classroom vainly trying to open a window. He offered to open it, and tried to do it. But the window remained unopened until a burly friend took his place at the window.
STRONG FOR IT
Chancellor Strong to Hurl Firas
Baseball of Season—Headline.
As a means of keeping the women away from the movies some ingenious prof has turned two large, lively rats loose in the Varsity Theater.
Sounds like slang, doesn't is?
V's are coming into style since the war. The V. for victory loan. V for fifth loan and the prominent V on the new styles in spring dresses for women.
FAMOUS LAST LINES I'll be over at 8:30.
Sanitation is Subject of Talk by Dr. Goetz
The sanitation problem in rooming houses will be the subject of an informal talk by Dr. Alice L. Goetz, head of the department of physical education for women, at the regular meeting of the House Presidents' Council in Room 110 Fraser, Wednesday at 4:30 o'clock.
The new chairman of the House Presidents' Council is Lorma Marie Raub, vice-president of the W.S.G.A. from the School of Fine Arts, Iris Russell, vice-president from the college, is secretary of the Council.
Omicron Nu, honorary sorority of the department of home economics, held pledge service Monday night for these women: Ella Jane Hagen, Angela Fogarty, Louise Broeker, Rilla Hammat and Elfreida Brucknider.
Oricron Nu Pledges Five
Dr. James Naismith Met Many University Students In France
Head of Physical Education Saw K. U. Athletes Play With American E. F. Teams
Saw Championship Games
"Home Orders" Stopped Victorious March of Basketball Team of 35th Division
Dr. James Naisimith, head of the department of physical education, in his nineteen months' overseas service with the Y. M. C. A. a saw and talked to some 150 or more University of Kansas men in varied places and circumstances.
"The first K. U. man I saw was Charles Sharp, 'c97, in the Y work, now an instructor in a Chicago theological college. I saw Bert Welch, '99, in the Y work, and soon after, Captain Walter Keenecke, '01, attached to the 23rd Engineers. Capt. J. C. Moore is the district surgeon for the Paris District."
"In December I saw Captain KO'Keefe, a regular army man with the First Division of the First Army. He was in the first raid in which the Germans laid down a box barrage, and was the first Kansas Captain mentioned by George Patallo on the Saturday Evening Post.
"Among Lawrence men seen from time to time were: Lieut. Roy Gress, in an aviation camp where Lieut. Wint Smith had been an instructor in artillery. Lieutenant Gress was teaching men that would operate the 1-pounders. Lieutenant Whitehead, Lieutenant Kirkland and Lieut. Francis Wilson were here. I saw Sergt. R. L. Vickery, Lieut. Alden Logan, Lieut. A. A. Hill, Otto Ellis, Sergt. R. O. Fair, Lieut. D. O'Connor, Lieut. J. E. Dearest, Pete Reedy, Sergt. Charles Ockhle, Leroy E. Watkins, Byron S. Cohn, Walter Hess, B. H. Hayes, Corp. Basil L. Mitchell, Tracy Leis, Herman Engle, Dwight Buchanan, Paul A. Dichl and Sergt. Fred McNeil.
"Among other K. U. men met were Capt. W. H. Bailey in the medical service, Lieut. A. J. Nig, Howard Laslett, Claude Russell, Capt. J. E. Jones, Capt. F. C. Dockery, Lieut. Rook Woodward and Royland Boynton."
Doctor Naisimatt attended the football game in which the 55th Division won the championship of the American E. F. K. U. men on the team were "Potys" Clark, Howard Laslett, Jick Fast, C. C. Fletcher, A. J. Nigg, L. A. Smith.
The 35th were runners-up for the championship in the Am. E. F. basketball series when home orders arrived, and they turned their chances over to the 28th Division. In speaking of basketball Doctor Naimish told of Mitten Baker developing a team in the Orly flying school that toured the British Front demonstrating the game to the Britains, who are very enthusiastic over basketball. Before the war they considered it a girls' game, but after observing it and learning the finer points an English major said to Doctor Naimish. "I wish we had known this game before, as we have no such game that develops skill, ability and intuition as it does. It is superior to bayonet drill and fighting." Exhibition games were played on the battlefield of Lille for the British Army. They sent to the Y. M. C. A. for six instructors to go into the British Army and teach the men the game, Doctor Naimish has the ball used in games as a souvenir, with the dates of games upon it. He brought home a German skull picked up near Verdun, for study purposes. It demonstrates the saying that the Germans are square heads. "I always heard they were, but never realized it was a fact until I saw these skulls," said Doctor Naimish.
Prof. Arthur Nevin of the School of Fine Arts lead a chorus and orchestra composed largely of University students at the early morning Easter service at the Lutheran Church Sunday. This is the third year Professor Nevin has been in charge of the chorus, and the fourteenth year of the Early Easter Service.