APRIL 3,1919.
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
By The Way
Golda Fuger, A. B. '18, will give a house party Saturday and Sunday at her home in Wathena for the following members of Allenania: Viola Engle, Dorothy Flint, Mary Smith, Pauline Rhodes, Clara Nigg, Frank Stacey, Don Hughes, W. W. Hawkins and Ernest Kugler.
The Bill Board Ball, the annual Theta Sigma Phi party will be given in F. A. U. Hall, April 12. Music will be furnished by Haley and Bevensee and traps.
Mrs. George Mayes of Topeka is visiting Augusta Taylor c21, at the Alpha Chi Omega house.
Don Lang and Dayton Young will go to Manhattan Friday to attend the Shamrock Formal.
Nina Charles, special, spent Tuesday in Kansas City and attended the Picture Concert.
Sigma Nu will entertain with an alumni and rushing dance, Saturday, April 26 in F. A. U. Hall. April 27 they will give a banquet for all returned alumni.
Kathleene Doering, c'22, Madeline Aaron and Julia Fitzgerald, c'21, will go to Kansas City Saturday to attend Madam Butterfly.
Kappa Phi Club held initiation and banquet Wednesday evening in the Methodist Church. The room and banquet table was decorated in the club colors of green and blue and white. Katrina Baldwin was toastmaster and those who spoke were, Mrs. D. M. Powell of Kansas City, Mrs. McKinley Warren of Lawrence, Helen Martin, retiring president, and Sidonia莎, acting president.
Prof. M. W. Sterling visited his daughter in Kansas City, Tuesday and attended the Picture Concert.
Helen Stevenson, c'22, and Lillian Shavens, c'22, will go to Salina Friday to attend the wedding of Miss Stevenson's sister.
Lieut. Edwin Burkholder, 117, will spend four months in France, studying law at the Sorbonne, according to word received Tuesday by Prof. A. J. Boynton.
Prof. J. C. Jones, who has been ill with tonsillitis and bronchitis for the last week, resumed his work in the School of Engineering today.
March, 1919, Turned Out Much Like the Average
Temperature Ranges 4 to 70 Storms in Center of State Raised Rivers Here
This last month was almost a typical March at Lawrence, being windy, cloudy, clear, and altogether variable, although the average temperature was slightly above normal, and the warmest and coolest parts of the day were slightly below the usual temperature, according to the records just completed by the Meteoroligica Station of the University.
The lowest temperature of the month, four degrees occurred the first of the month, while the highest, seventy degrees, was recorded March 30.
A heavy snow broke out in the northwest and central parts of Kansas on the fifteenth resulting in strong winds and heavy rainfall, but only a small part of the storm affected Lawrence. The Kansas river and many small streams, however, in this vicinity were abnormally high, as a result of the rains farther west.
Lawrence experienced another storm March 25, during which 15 inch of rain fell. The total rainfall of the month was 1.28 inches, which is only half of the normal rainfall for March
The snow for March amounted to but .25 inch, and none of it remained long on the ground.
Razing Old Fan House To Build Retaining Wall
The walls of the old fan house for Blake Hall which has been in use since 1895 are being torn down. The new basement fan chamber installed in December has taken its place. The stone from the old building will be used in the retaining wall just below Green Hall.
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Senator Borah Paid For Turkeys His Frat Brothers Stole At K. U
What would the Senate and the N. S.G.A. have to say, if a fraternity chapter, including a future United States Senator and a prospective minister of the gospel, should send out a turkey stealing expedition tonight? No K.U. student is going to steal turkeys tonight perhaps, but students do such things. The Baltimore Sun tells the story as a joke on Senator Borah when he was a student at K.U.
Of all that company only the future Senator objected. Such conduct, he declared with indignation that pressured his future emotions with considering the League of Nations, was unworthy of students and gentlemen.
One of the students knew several girls, students in the University, who could cook turkey in the most approved fashion. The crockpot chef explained that the proper thing to do was to "lift" a few turkkeys and have a feast.
They told him he might return to his lonely room and his studies if he wanted, but they were going after turkey. The future Senator went back to his kerosene-lamp while his unregenerate companies made their way under cover of darkness to the farmer's place.
Even the member studying for the ministry went along. He had no intention of stealing turkey—oh, no he wanted to see a neat job done. This man was a football player as well as theological student and proved one of the most valuable members of the party. For as they crept toward the turkey-roost a faithful watchdog made a vicious charge upon them. The embryonic parson fell upon that dog with all the skill of a football artist capturing a muffed pigskin, when the party were woken up and the dog with another breath nor bark in him, to say nothing of bite. The turkeys were safely stored away, and in course of time the concienceless crowd feasted on the fruits of their raid. The future Senator scorned to taste the forbidden food. He rated a clear conscience higher than a full stomach.
Some days later the same crowd again found time hanging heavy on their hands. The turkeys were gone—so was Borah. While these idlers let time slip past, this earnest student continued to pore over the pages of that book on Constitutional law as it lay under the glaze of his well-filled lamp. In the meantime, his companions thought of the turkeys and signed. The memory hatted their appetites for dinner after they called in for the town—a notation explained the whole situation to him. Within a short time they had enlisted his help in a new nefarious scheme, and had dressed him up like a farmer of the most violent type of Populism, then rampant in Kansas. Sockleek Jerry Simpson would have recognized him as an own brother. It was the type specially hateful to Borah.
This man went to the professor's house where Borah roamed. At the door he demanded in tones that penetrated even to the room with the lamp and the book on Constitutional law wanting to know if a man named "Borer" lived there. The professors wife, who answered the door, replied that Mr. Borah roomed there, and pointed the way. Borah had pushed back the green shake from tired eyes and waited to greet the stranger.
"My name is Borah," answered the man of future greatness, with a touch of dignity that was to become habitual with him.
"Iis your name Borer," demanded the farmer again.
"Do you belong to the Bite-the-Pie Club?" further queried the farmer. "I don't know what you mean," replied Borah.
"Well, do you belong to this here thing?" and he held out a paper with the name of the Greek letter fraternity written on it.
"Yes, I belong to that," replied the student.
"I know you do," said the farmer. "Don't get any idea I'm asking for information. You belong, and so does"—and here the farmer enumerated the full membership of the chapter of that fraternity. "Furthermore, I want you to understand that I know that it was this crowd that robbed me of half a dozen fine turkeys."
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"I had no part in any such proceeding." exclaimed Borah.
"I know that, too," said the farmer. "That's the reason I have come to see you. You seem to be the only one that has any sense. But you knew they were going to do it, and I calculate that makes you about as bad as the rest of them being; and I am sure they would tell you that I'm going to have the whole lot of you arrested in the morning, and you're the first one I'm going for."
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Visions of the disgrace of the thing ran before this lover of the law. He knew the merciless chatter and the relentless gossip of the small college town. He saw the honor of his beloved fraternity dragged in the dust. With great tact he suggested to the farmer that if any such wrong had been perpetrated it must have been in the nature of a joke and that full restitution would be made. The farmer wanted restitution right away and the upshot of the matter was that Borah compromised with him for ten dollars. He congratulated himself that the incident was closed as far as the farmer was concerned. In this surmise he was quite correct, for the crowd of unregenerates enjoyed another feas that same night in which the temporary farmer had his full share. But when Borah appealed for the return of his ten dollars he found indee that the incident was closed.
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Home Service Section Of Lawrence Red Cross Placed On Honor Rol
Dean Blackmar Resigns as Chair man After Successful Year's Work
Owing to his increasing duties in connection with the University, Dean F. W. Blackmar has found it necessary to resign his position as chairman of the Lawrence Home Service Section of the American Red Cross. Through his efforts the Home Service Section of Lawrence was placed on the honor roll among the cities in the southwest division because of its efficiency.
According to the annual report of the section the total assistance in a financial way given by the Home Service, either in the form of loans or grants, was $1,081.03, of which $425.20 has been returned. The current expenses, including telephone calls, telegrams, etc., were $83.53. A large amount of work was done at a small expense. This is owing to the people who have given voluntary service. Many towns the size of Lawrence have paid an executive from $60 to $100 a month, without having done more efficient work. The only payment for services during the entire year was $75 paid to Miss Elizabeth Plank for four months' work. University students who voluntarily
gave their services with no pay were Edith Banks, Emily Ferris, Dolores Keeling, Alice Vogt, Julia Kennedy, and Irena Leon.
The Home Service Section was organized twelve months ago and has been conducted by Dean Blacknar with the assistance of University students trained in Social Service work. During the year 473 families have been aided. Twenty-two families required financial assistance. The chief service of the chapter has been to visit the homes for various purposes, including the giving of advice in regard to health, the education of their children, the supervision of unruly children, and the readjustment of the family budget and dietary. Information is also offered in regard to allotments, allowances, compensation and insurance.
In order to help the people, the Servi ce Section has written letters to relatives and other interested parties. They have encouraged correspondence between the family and men in the service. They have had interviews with relatives and with the employers, pastors, instructors, physicians and lawyers of the faculty. Other helpful influences such as hospitals, dispensaries, visiting nurses, juvenile courts and attendance officers were frequently offered, and these were usually accepted.
Two hundred sixty-eight families were given these general services and 118 were given information only. Of the total number, fifty-three are still receiving services.
The annual meeting of the Home Service Section of the American Red Cross for Lawrence and Douglas
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County was held on March 31. At this meeting a complete record of the year's work was presented. The members of the committee of the Home Service Section for Douglas County are: F. W. Blackmar, chairman; E. R. Keith, physician; Mrs' J. S. Amick, insurance; C. C. Stewart, attorney; Mrs. J. A. Hamlin, nurse; S. A. Jackon, business. The chairmen of the committees in other towns in the county are: Chas. H., secretary; Mrs. W. L. Ulrich, Lone Star; Mrs. C. A. Hill, Eudora; Mattic Caldwell, Lecompton; George Hildenbran, Stuall; Mrs. Clara Beach, Clinton; Mrs. Jacob Hamig, Grant.
The report as given above cannot give adequate appreciation of the amount of work done, according to Dean Blackmar. In a single case o allowance or allotment, the carrying on of the necessary correspondence with the War Department or Navy Department and with the Bureau of War Risk Insurance for months before final adjustment requires a great deal of time and patience. Great care however, has been taken to leave out the idea of charity, and to put in it place the idea of service as their motive.
Mine Planter Service
Wants Masters and Mates
The United States Army Mine Planter Service will hold open competitive examinations on May 5, 1919, for the warrant officer grades of master, first mate, and second mate board army mine planters. About 30 positions are to be filled.
The War Department has asked the United States Civil Service Commission to use its machinery for disseminating information relative to the positions and for distributing application blanks. The secretary of the local board of civil service examiners at the post office or custom house in any city of the United States will supply to any person interested a printed announcement containing full information as to requirements, salaries, allowances in addition to salaries, etc., and with an application blank.
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Students are the same as fighters—Need sugar or candy to give them energy. Chocolates are at the head of the list. Try our own make —Wiedemanns.—Adv.
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