UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOLUME XVI.
NUMBER 108
Editorial Page Makes Newspapers Readable Says Chas. F. Scott
Iola Editor in Talks to Journalism Students Discusses News Writing
"Own Your Own Paper"
Good Reporters Should Have Large Vocabularies According to Lecturer
"I would rather be a newspaper man than anything else in the world," he said the sentiment expressed by Charlie F. Scott, of Iola, editor and owner of the Iola Register. "The doctor deals only with the sick, the preacher deals only with his church members, and he is lucky if he has half the members there to hear his discourse, the lawyer gets in a groove and the better lawyer he is the deeper the groove becomes, but the newspaper man must keep on the table land where he is
Mr. Scott talked to a class in Newspaper at the 8:30 hour and told his idea of a good reporter. A reporter must be loyal to his paper, he said, he should use good English, and according to Mr. Scott there is no reason why newspaper English should not be the best English in the world. A reporter should have several sets of words and should use short term sentences that mean something. He should make clear statements because the average reader has no time to re-read the story to understand it.
DIDN'T KILL HIS PAPER
At the 9:30 hour Mr. Scott spok to a joint session of two classes it editorial writing and news writing During this lecture he emphasized the value of an editorial page, and the fact that it is the best policy to own one's own newspaper.
"I think it is the best policy for every paper to have an editorial page. When I started my editorial page some of my friends said it would kill my paper, but it didn't, and I don't think a good strong editorial page will kill any paper. In fact, it is the life of most papers. I think the tendency today is for an independent paper. It is all right for a metropolitan paper. I think this paper should ally itself with some political party. If you don't ally with a political party in the town paper you must have editors of superlative ability, or you will get in trouble with either one faction or another.
MUST INTERPRET NEWS
"The chief function of an editorial page, however, is to interpret the news. For instance, in one of the news dispatches of a few days ago an army of 50,000 was mentioned for foreign service. Now, you would be surprised to know how many people called me up to ask if the selective service law would be applied in this case. Of course, nothing of the sort was intended, but a voluntary enlistment of men for service was what the dispatch intended to convey. An editor, in plain language, would have enlightened people to a very great extent on this news item.
"I think that all of you should own your own newspaper. You may think that it is impossible, but when I left this institution I had $10 in my pocket, and it took me a year and a half to save $200 with which I purchased part interest in a small newspaper. And that isn't all of the story, for it took me thirteen more years before I owned it all."
R. R. E. E. Visits K. U.
William F. Price, e13, of Los Angeles was a visitor at the School of Engineering Saturday. Mr. Price is an electrical engineer and is in charge of the signal department of the Santa Fe coast line.
To Faculty and Students of the University.
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, APRIL 2, 1919.
Mr. Yutake Minakuchi of Japan will speak in Fraser Chapel, Friday morning at 11:30, on American-Japanese Relations. Mr. Minakuchi is vounded for as competent to speak with judgment and authority on this matter. The whole question is so intriguing that I take this eans of urging the largest possible attendance at the time of this address.
FRANK STRONG, Chancellor
Geology Club Will Meet Wednesday Afternoon
The Mining and Geology Club will hold its first meeting of the quarter in the lecture room on the third floor of Haworth Hall, Wednesday at 4:30 p.m.
There will be four 10-minute talks followed by discussion. E. R. Elledge, president of the club, will preside.
"Miner's wage controversy at Butte, Mont., will be discussed by Paul O. Holland, who has worked underground in the copper district and will describe the wage difficulties there. Dr. R. C. Moore will outline, "The Program of the Kansas Geological Survey," "New Mining Handbooks" will be given by Harold Messmore and "The Need for Secondary Mining Schools in Kansas," by Prof. A. C. Terrill.
Five Minutes in the Wide,Wide World
*Written for students who are too busy or too
lazy to read a paper from outside the campus.
Robert J. Corwine, former minister and insurance man was elected mayor of Topeka yesterday. Mr. Cowin returned from Red Cross service at Camp Sherman.
Allied Indemnity Bill will probably be $25,000,000,000, according to announcement made yesterday.
France is given control of the Sarre region and probably of the left bank of the Rhine until the productive capacity of the mines of northern France is restored, industrial production revived, and the prostration due to the war ended, according to the new plan for settlement of the Franco-German frontier question.
...Bolshevik plot to seize arsenal in Pittsburgh was discovered and thwarted Monday following the arrest of William Wyciss, alleged agent of Trotsky. Ten other arrests were made.
No Disarmament;Fear Freshmen Bolshevist
In spite of the Senate tribunal's rulings providing for 'disarmament, hints of preparedness pervade the atmosphere of Mount Oread today. The latest returns from the Greek front indicate that munition workers are turning out implements of war with long handles, the plan being to start a drive tomorrow against first year men who do not comply with the terms of the armistice.
Suspicious traces of Bolshevism are reported in a few instances from the yearling camp, but the Allied Powers believe the threatened revolt can readily be put down. A few daring yearlings, it is said, will attempt to spy out the enemy country in disguise, wearing the uniform of the upper-classmen. The articles of war adopted on Mount Oread, provide a heavy penalty for this offense, and the field staff says the provision will be rigidly enforced.
The chief means of defense to be employed by the freshmen, it is reported will be a special sort of headgear. This device is said to be more effective than the steel helmet employed in former wars. Only terms of unconditional surrender will be discussed, says the upperclassman, who admit that they are powerful to harm them in warmer干燥头gear. The freshman board of strategy is urging all members of the class to invest at once.
A mixer will be held at the Christian Church Friday night, at 8 o'clock by the young people of the C. E. Society. All young people welcome.
Announcements
All former service men, army, navy, or marine corps, are requested to send in their names and addresses to Lt. Col. H. D. Burdick, head of the University military department.
Snow Zoology Club will have initiation Thursday afternoon at 4:30 o'clock in Snow Hall.
The Sociology Club will meet Thursday evening at 7 o'clock in the rest room in Fraser Hall. Prof. M. C. Elmer will talk.
The First Meeting of the new Y. W. C. A. First Cabinet will be tonight in Myers Hall at 7:15, instead of the regular time tomorrow night.
The Student Volunteers will meet in Myers Hall tonight at 7 o'clock.
Theta Sigma Phi will meet Thursday at 4:30 o'clock in Fraser rest room. Members should bring typewriter paper.
Annual May Fete Under Auspices Of Y.W.C.A. Will Be Given May 22
Miss Hazel Allen and Helen Wag staff Chairmen of Faculty and Student Committees
The annual May fete, which was dispensed with last year on account of the war, will be given May 22, under the auspices of the Y. W. C. A. Those participating will be chosen from the University at large.
Miss Hazel Allen of the department of home economies, who is a member of the board of directors of the Y. W. C. A., is chairman of the central committee from the faculty. Associated with her is Dr. Alice Goetz, who will head the program, and Mia Elizabeth Meguiar, who will have charge of the costumes.
Prof. Arthur Nevin will have supervision of the music for both the dances and the orchestra, and Miss Margaret Lynn, who is also a member of the Y. W. C. A. board, will do the publicity work for the fete.
The student committee is composed of Helen Wagstaff, chairman; Olive Berry, Doris Drought, Helen Peffer, and Florence Butler. They will choose the women who will be used in the fete. They will work in co-operation with Doctor Goetz and Professor Nevin.
The stage for the May Fete will be the golf links across the campus from the Administration Building.
Noted Japanese Orator
To Speak at Convocation
Dr. Yutaka Mirakuchi Will Lecture on American-Japanese Relations
The noted Japanese orator, Dr. Yutaka Minakuchi, will lecture on American-Japanese relations. Friday at 11:30 o'clock in convoction at Fraser Hall. Minakuchi received his education in the Universities of Kentucky, North Carolina and Virginia, and at Yale. About four years ago he was chosen as one of the chief orators of the "Men and Religion Forward Movement."
In view of the present question between lower California and Japan, also the relation of Mexico with Japan, the lecture will prove of especial interest coming from a native of Japan. The lecture deals with the present relations between Japan and America in the light of their past diplomatic history.
Marine engineering, with specia emphasis on concrete ships and the submarine, will be the topic for discussion at a meeting of the Mechanical Engineering Society, Thursday night at 7:30 o'clock, at the home of Prof. F. H. Sibley, 1607 Tennessee Street.
Mechanical Engineers Will Talk About Ships
The world war has brought out many things in marine engineering and the subject is now of unusual general interest. Anyone interested is invited to attend this discussion. Every meeting is open to visitors.
The following women have not called at the University hospital for their nursing certificates received for the class in Home Nursing: Mary Banke, Leona Carmichael of Carthage, Elly Gold, Mayra ret Melvius, Esther Plumb, Vera M. Preder, Marvel Rullman, Ruth Tottm. Agnes Sulton, Orpha Totm.
Freshmen must wear their caps was the sentiment expressed Wednesday night at a meeting of the Black Helmets at the Phi Kappa Psi house. The Black Helmets felt that in as much as they helped to uphold the school traditions that it was up to the Freshmen class to follow in their footsteps.
Diplomas Awalt Winners
Black Helmets Uphold Cap Rule
Lieut. William R. Brown, e'18, of the 29th Engineers, has received his discharge from Washington and returned to his home in Lawrence, 845 Illinois Street. Lieutenant Brown has been in the flash and sound section, engaged in calculating the range of big guns by sound, which was made possible by the electrical device perfected by the late Capt. Ernest E. Weibel, e'11.
Senate Members Favor the Idea and Consider Many
Students Submit Plan ToDisciplinary Committee For Honor System At K.U.
Forms
A plan for the honor system at the University was submitted to the Disciplinary Committee Tuesday by a joint committee of men and women selected by the students at mass meetings.
The plan as suggested incorporates he following ideas:
Each student is on his honor to report any dishonest work. The responsibility will rest with the student body.
There shall be no supervision of examinations by instructors.
The penalty for dishonest work will be the publication of names.
All reports of dishonest work will be referred to a committee of students elected from the student body at large, in the spring.
The Discipinary Committee expressed themselves as being in favor of some kind of an Honor System and are considering the plan submitted along with plans that have been adopted by other Universities.
The final plan decided upon by the Joint Committee of students and the Disciplinary Committee will be voted upon by the entire student body in the spring, for a final decision as to whether or not the Honor System shall be established at K.U.
Another meeting of the Joint Committee and the Disciplinary Committee will be held next week to decide upon the definite plan to submit to the students.
Students on the Joint Committee:
Esther Moore, Mary Samson,
Mary Olson, Luther Hangen, George
Strong, and Dwight Smith.
Captain F. E. Jones Back to University Soon
Former Commander of Company M Awaiting Discharge at Plattsburg, N.Y. Hospital
Capt. F. E. Jones, assistant professor of engineering, and formerly commander of Company M, the University's National Guard unit, has returned to the United States and expects to be in Lawrence within a week or ten days. Captain Jones is now in a hospital at Plattsburg N. Y., awaitting discharge. Although he had been ill, he was in good health when he arrived at Newport News, said a telephone received here by Mrs. Jones.
Captain Jones, in command of Company M of the 137th Infantry, made up largely of K. U. men, left Mount Orend for Camp Donphan in the autumn of 1917, after the company had been in **camp here all summer**.
The unit went to France early in 1918, but because of reorganization under the French system used on the western front, the personnel of the company was broken up and Captain Jones relieved of his command. He was then in charge of a replacement company called Camp where the men stopped on the way from the hospital to rejoin their organizations.
Captain Jones has been on leave of absence from K. U. and will resume his position in the faculty on return to Lawrence.
Lient. Charles L. Shughart, e18 was a visitor at the School of Engineering Monday. Lieutenant Shughart, whose former home is Winfield, obtained his commission in the Engineers Corps from an O.T.C. at Camp Lee, Va., and recently received his discharge. He is now installing an auto accessory business at Valley Falls.
Lient, Shughart a Visitor
The Board of Alumni Visitors will spend Wednesday, Thursday and Friday at the University preparing their report for the Alumnae Association upon different aspects of University life. The visitors this year are Mrs. Helen Peyr Edwards, '96, of Eureka, Mrs. J. W. Gleed, '79, of Topea, Miss Graff Winkle, '12, of Wichita, and Mr. John F. Bender, '06, of Pittsburg.
Alumni Visitors Here
There will be an all-University convocation Friday morning, April 4, at 11:30 o'clock in Fraser Chapel.
FRANK STRONG, Chancellor
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Miss Wilkie, A.B.'09,
To Reconstruction Work
Miss Grace Wilkie, A.B.'09, has received an appointment to go overseas in reconstruction work. This appointment comes through the national Chi Omega Sorority, of which Miss Wilkie is a member and which has a war service fund to send one or more members oversave a year in general of reconstruction work. Their members will be under the direction of the Y. W. C. A. Miss Wilkie is at present at the head of the domestic science department of Fairmount College, Wichita.
Plain Tales From the Hill
"They Shall Not Pass," is not only great epigram of the War, but may also be given as an epigram to all rofs, on the Hill.
At one of the fraternity houses, which was entertaining a high school team, the cook was very late with dinner. The team had gathered downstairs. The dinner bell rang, and before anyone could get to them they were at the table. Consequently the frat, boys had to trail on in, and sit at the other end of the table, instead of taking their guests down to dinner.
Student: I was making B's all the emester.
Prof. I, Markm Down: Well, the B stung you, C.
Two high school girls were talking and one of them asked, "What house are you staying at?"
"I don't know exactly, but I think it is the Beta House."
What A T-T-T-T-T-
Makes goo-goo i-1-i-1-i-
ohnny she c-c-c-c-c-,
She smiles with e-e-e-e-e;
No other gi-i-j-i-j-i.
she smiles with e-e-e-e-e; Makes goo-goo i-i-i-i-i;
(This might be dedicated to Helen.
Me: You are the apple of my eye.
She: What do you think I am.
Fruit?
AN ALLY FOR MOTHER
Little Elsie (after being punished)
"I think papa is dreadful. Was he
the only man you could get, mamma?
"Edinburgh Scotsman."
"Mr. Grabbin, I've saved up $3,000 and I want to buy a new bed."
A FAIR PROPOSITION
mr. Graccio, I saved up $3,000 and I want to marry your daughter.
"Do you realize that $3,000 won't last long nowadays?"
"Oh, yes, sir. But it ought to take care of us for at least six月 months and at the end of that time if I haven't convinced you that I'm an ideal son, in-law you needn't do a thing for us." —Birmingham Age-Herald.
MANY TURNS IN ARMY
Willie- How do you like army life?
Willa- a number of new turns for a fellow-
person?
Gillis—You're right. At night you turn in, and just as you are about to turn over, somebody turns up and says "Turn out."-Pittsburgh Dispatch
IT ISN'T ALL SHERMAN SAID IT WAS
The man was bad.
The war was one
it could be worse,
For I fell in love
With a Red Cross Nurse.
NO PHYSICAL FORCE
Uppercaseclassman: Here You? Freshmen, where can you go?
en. Where's your cap:
Frosh: None of your business
Fresh: None of your business.
Ung: Naughty, naughty. You must wear a shirt to be able to wear it, but if you don't I won't like you and maybe I won't speak to you.
PROVERBS OF FRESHMEN
By their buttons, Ye Shall Know
Them.
There was but one April Fool's sake "pulled" Tuesday on the Hill, John Ise did it. Mr. Ise stayed in bed until 9:30, and his 8:30 class in economics stayed in the class-room and grum-bled.
He's old and grim.
He wears a frown,
He gives us flunks,
Prof Murali M.
Prof. Mark M. Down
There is a new Bolshevik movement on the Hill, but it only has been here before this, but we didn't know it was a Bolshevik movement. We are speaking of dandellons.
Otto Hopfer says he is going to wear his freshman cap some more this spring because he figures he didn't wear it enough last year. He came tearing up on the campus yesterday with one of the caps, but who knows what but he was fooling us.
Senate Rejects Appeal For $3 Admissjon Price To Popularity Ball
Believe Price Would be Unfair to Managers of Other Large Parties
War Memorial Discussed
University Director of Publicity Will Cover Senate News For Papers
The recommendation of the Student Affairs Committee that admission to the Popularity Ball be fixed at $3.00 a couple was rejected by the University Senate at its regular meeting on Tuesday. The price for the dance will be $1.50. General feeling in the Senate was that allowing the Jayhawker management to charge more for its party than the managers of other dances already held, such as the Law Serim and the Journalism Jazz, would be unfair.
Proceeds from Varsity dances shall be spent by the organizations giving the dances subject to the approval of their faculty advisory committee, according to the favorable action of the Senate on that Student Affairs Commission recommendation presented by the committee was laid on the table.
The Senate authorized Chancellor rank Strong to appoint a committee o consider and act upon the matter of War Memorial for the University.
Discussion of the advisability of publishing the names of offenders called before the Disciplinary Committee led to the Senate's going on record as not favoring the publication of names.
The recommendation that the reading of names of graduates at the Commencement exercises be omitted, the form to be used in substitution to be left to the Chancellor, was referred to the Student Affairs Committee.
At the last meeting of the Senate it was decided that the Director of Publicity of the University, S. O. Rice, be admitted to all sessions of the Senate to send out news reports of the proceedings,
Fourteen Women Named on Second Y. W. Cabinet
The second cabinet of the Y.W.C.A., which is composed of the associate chairman of the various committees, has been chosen and is as follows:
Lillian Cottrell ... Chairman
Ruth Boerstell ... Secretary
Mary Barker ... Membership
Jennie Glendenning ... Finance
Bernice Bridges ... Social
Mary Tudor ... Publicity
Helen Jackson ... Big Sister
Reba Shepherd ... Haskell
Ruth Garver ... Social Services
Mildred Russell ... Hostess
Mildred Law ... Religious Education
Bessie Gillis ... Personal Work
Dorothy Engle ... Conference
Leona Baumpartner
Religious meetings
Movies to be Given in Fraser Lectures and moving pictures will be given in Fraser Hall some day next for those interested in the R.O.T.C.e. to be an announcement made today by Lenn O. Harold D. Burdick. These will be given in the mornings from 9:30 until 10:00 'o'clock and from 10:00 until 11:30 'o'clock, and in the afternoon from 1:30 to 2:30 and from 2:30 until 3:30. More definite announcements will be made later.
Freshman Squad to Meet Wednesday
A meeting of the freshman baseball
squad will be held Wednesday afternoon
at 4 o'clock on Hamilton Field,
just south of McCook Field. Uniforms
are to be worn if available and tryouts
and a preliminary talk will be given
by Conch "Dutch" Wedell.
Here they are. These are the freshmen who disdain to decorate their learned little bean with the distinctive headgear of their class. They consider themselves above being Freshmen. The names have turned in to the Daily Kansan by the Red Vigils.
David Sheffrey,
Jose V. Cajucom.
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