UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOLUME XVI
NUMBER 94.
Work Up an Appetite For Facts, Gov. Allen Tells News Students
Short Talk Given in Kansan Office before Convocation Thursday
"I had rather be a newspaper reporter than anything I have ever been. It is the one big business in life in which you must love your work if you are going to succeed in it."
Gov. Henry Allen expressed the foregoing sentiment when he talked to the students in the department of journalism in The Daily Kansan office Thursday afternoon.
"Many persons have laughed at the idea of having a school of journalism, but I am glad that I have not been one of the scoffers. I feel that it establishes a good beginning for newspaper work."
Speaking of the qualifications for a good reporter he pointed out to the students that they should develop an appetite for facts. He said:
"The first thing you must get is confidence on your beats. You can get this by writing your news honestly. Do not attempt to do fine detailed writing; leave that to older writers."
"Too many authors present facts in a twisted fashion. Learn to respect facts. Use your imagination in gathering them, but do not let it spoil the truth of your assertions.
"There isn't anything so glorious in the world as scooping the other chap."
In speaking of the editorial page he emphasized its importance and said that its significance had been shown in the interpretation of the subject, the League of Nations.
Kansas Meets Missouri
In Debate March 28
The annual debate with Missouri will be held at Columbia, March 28. Kansas has the affirmative of the question: Resolved, that Universal Military Training should be adopted in the United States.
Edwin Price, Ferdinand Stuewe,
and Louis Severson will represent
Kansas. They are now hard at work
preparing their speeches, and meeting
with Coach Henry Shinn two and
three times a week for practice.
"We are a little dandicapped on our side of the question by the recent developments of the Peace Conference but we have a well balanced team and I see no reason to be discouraged as to the outcome." Coach Shina said this morning.
Senior Play Tryouts
In Green Hall Monday
The first tryouts for the Senior Class play will be held Monday night at 7:50 in the Little Theatre in Green all. All seniors are eligible to try for the cast. Fraternity men and women are naked to come as soon as they can get away from their fraternity
Another tryout will be held Tuesday afternoon, if there are too many applications to be examined Monday night. "Oh, Shoot!" is the name of the play, which was written by Ed Patton, e'19. It will be produced late in April at the Bowersock Theatre.
Chancellor Strong is Ill
Chancellor Ströng is Dr Chancellor Frank Strong has been ill since last Monday and was in his office yesterday for the first time, for an hour. He was up again this morning for a short time, but was not able to do much work. Dr W. L. Burdick, vice-chancellor, opened the convocation Thursday as the chancellor was not able to attend.
Alumni Visitors to Meet
Alumni Visitors to Meet
A meeting of the Alumni Board of Visitors will be called the last of the month. Rachel Pugh, '02, is in France doing an A. work and C. Crawley in France with the M. C. Helen Perry Edwards, '96, of Eurasia. J. W. Gleed, '79, of Topcape, Grace Wilkie, '12, of Wichita and John F. Bender of Pittibarr will attend the meeting.
Prof. MacMurray to Iowans Prof. Arthur MacMurray left Wednesday for Logan, Iowa, where he spoke before the Logan County Institute.
Prof. D. L. Patterson left this noon for Valley Falls where he will speak on "The World War and the League of Nations." Saturday night he will speak at White Cloud.
Journalism Jazz Has
Room for Fifty More
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS FRIDAY AFTERNOON, MARCH 7 1019
The seats were removed from the gymnasium floor after the basketball game Thursday night and fifty more couples will be able to attend the Journalism Jazz tonight, said Fred Righty, manager of the Jazz. Tickets will be on sale at the door, and no one will be turned back. Haley's 4-piece "jagsträ" will start playing at 9 o'clock. The programs and decorations have arrived and are in harmony with the style of the party, it is alleged.
Five Minutes in the Wide. Wide World
Written for students who are too busy to eat hard to read a paper from outside the campus.
Brig. Gen Samuel T. Anselm who while assistant judge advocate general, assailed the army court martial system as an institution of injustice was relieved of executive functions Thursday and demoted to his regular rank of lieutenant colonel. Secretary Baker denied that the action was the result of General Anselm's activities inurging referral of the court martial action taken has no relation to the controversy which has existed with regard to the administration of military justice and clemency," he said.
The Kansas Senate has killed a bill to pay the traveling expenses of seven members of each branch of the legislature with other state officials to form a reception committee to returning Kansas soldiers with expenses paid by the state to New York and return. The House Ways and Means Committee has reported a bill appropriating $20,000 to provide a welcome for the Kansas soldiers but it specifically prohibits any expense accounts of any officials to serve on the reception committee.
The Farm Tenancy resolution ame all the other proposed Kansas amendments to the state constitution have been set for a special order today in the Senate. It is asserted by Senate leaders that the farm tenant amendment will have the necessary two-thirds vote to get the good roads and the taxation amendments will have easy going in the Senate.
The French Government's often sive against the high cost of living, led by Vilgrain, unders secretary of the ministry of provisions, started Thursday when nine harracks were thrown open to the public for the sale of food direct from the government to be consumer.
Kansas Is To take official notice of the airplane, which will not need to pay a tax for operating in Kansas
Financial Negotiations Now in progress between American Banking interests and the Caranza government may lead the United States to supervise Mexican customs, and thus secure a proposed loan to the Mexican government. Financial needs of the Mexican Federal government are much greater than it regularly interest on the foreign debt, payment of revolutionary damage claims and military appropriation to put down盐岛.
A Heavy Snow fell throughout Western and southwestern Kansas Thursday night and Friday. More than four inches fell at Winfield. In some sections the snow was accompanied by sleet.
There Have Been serious engagements between Czech soldiers and citizens in numerous towns in German Bohemia, according to reports received at Vienna. The trouble started when the Germans attempted to hold elections for the Austrian national assembly in Vienna, which Czechoslovak government prohibited because Bohemia is Czech territory. Three persons are reported to have been killed at Karlsbad and ten at Sternberg.
The Kansas Water Commission studying flood conditions in the big water sheds of the state, has asked the legislature for an appropriation of $25,000 to carry on its work in cooperation with the government in studying the flood situation and to prevent disastrous floods. The Senate Ways and Measures Committee cut this appropriation to $3,000 but later voted $10,000.
Removal Of The Food Administration's minimum price on hoga resulted Thursday in the hog market at Kansas City selling top at $18.60, an advance of five cents over Wednesday's market and the highest price since November 6.
Third Term Schedule To Be Out Next Week
Dean Templin Says Only Limited Number Will Be Available
The schedule of classes for the third term will be out some time next week, according to Dean Olin Templin. The proof for the schedule is here today and is being corrected by Registrar G. O, Foster and Dean' amplim. It will be sent back to the State Printer today.
"Only a limited number of schedules will be printed." said Dean Templin this morning. "The expense of printing them is very great. Students can obtain them at the Dean's office when they arrive from the printer's near the last of next week."
The schedule will be in pamphlet form, containing eight pages, and will be similar to the one put out last quarter.
Dean Templin believes it would be advisable for each fraternity and rooming house to post a schedule in some prominent place where a number of students can use it. In doing this, the rush for schedules will not be so great and more people will get the benefit of them.
Rhodes Scholarships for War Period Resumed
Four Men from University Have Held Scholarships in Past
Details of the plan for the resumption of the election of the Rhodes scholars in the United States were announced March 3 by Professor Frank Aydeolte of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, American Society of Trustees. The scholarship has been discontinued for the past two years.
Four men from the University have won Rhodes Scholarships and attended Oxford University. Prof. E. W. Murray, formerly Associate Professor of Latin, who is now in Washington, was the first Rhodes scholar from Kansas with Washington University, with Washington University, St. Louis, won the scholarship in 1908, Rex Miller and Clarence Castle were the other two University men.
Examinations to qualify for the scholarship hitherto required of all candidates will no longer be held and scholars will be elected on the basis of their college or university record supplemented with other tests that the committee of selection may in their discretion impose.
The postponed scholarships due to the various states for 1918 and 1919 will be filled next autumn. These sixteen states will elect for 1918 and 1919—Alabama, Arkansas, California, Georgia, Mississippi, Minnesota, Mississippi, Nebraska, Missouri, Colorado, Oregon, Texas, Washington and Wisconsin.
Schiller Kruse, c.17, is now in Law-
rence, called here by the serious illnes-
ness of his father, Prof. H. O, Kruse,
of the department of German.
Father's Illness Calls Schiller Kruse Home
For some time after graduation Mr. Kruese was employed in the engineering department of the Western Electric Company, New York, where he worked on plans for installing telephone systems at various cantonments. He was also engaged in research work in wireless telephones for use on submarine chasers. Mr. Krueze is now with the Bureau of Standards in Washington and is working on a device to enable airplanes to locate their regular landing places under all conditions.
Marie Layroy Will Speak
Marie Lavroy, a graduate of the University of Geneva, Switzerland, will lecture to the students of the University, March 20, in Fraser Hall. Miss Lavroy is traveling in the United States lecturing upon conditions in Russia to create a model for the American people through her interpretation of life and literature in Russian.
C. E. Party Will Be March 14
C. E. Party Will be March 7.
The Christian Endeavor party for the winning album is also pressing contests centered on Presbyterian Church will be March 14, not March 7 as previously announced. The party will be in the church parlors.
Laws and Engineers Hold
Tryouts for Dual Debates
Subject to be same as That Chosen for Missouri-Kansas Debate
Tryouts for the dual debate between the School of Law and the School of Engineering which is scheduled for April 10 at 7:30 o'clock in the chapel of Fraser Hall, will be held in the two respective schools the first of next week. The committees representing the two schools have met, and by the end of August, the sideive side of the question, and theeginers chose the affirmative.
The subject of the debate is to be the same as that to be debated by Missouri and Kansas in the big dual debate—"Resolved—that compulsory university military training be adopted in the United States.
Any student of the two schools is eligible for tryout. Henry Shinn, debating coach, hopes to make this dual debate the first step to a triangular debate to be held later in the year, between the college, the laws and the engineers. The team that wins the debate April 10, will, in that case debate the college.
Health First in School Work, Says Dr. Goetz
Women Especially Should Know Principles of Hygiene, She Believes
"The education for health advocated by Dr. S. J. Crumbine, applies especially to women because every woman has the supervision, not only of her own health, but of her family's, and usually of her children's health," Dr. Alice Goetz of the department of education said today.
"Every college woman who prepares to teach should understand thoroughly the hygiene of childhood and adolescence. Every woman in planning her college work should choose as many courses as possible in which health principles are taught. Those students attending the University now to give students all the fundamental facts relating to the preservation of health."
"A woman can fill at least half of a nurse's training course while working for her A.B. degree, according to Doctor Goetz. She said this work, supplemented by a four months' training course in hospital service would prepare her splendidly to meet an emergency in the home.
"I like Benjamin Franklin's words when the University of Pennsylvania was founded," said Doctor Goetz.
"He insisted that to keep the students in health and strength and to make their bodies active, they should exercise in running, leaping, and swimming. Forty years later Franklin wrote: 'Give about two hours a day to exercise, for health must not be sacrificed for learning.'"
Doctor Goetz believes it is only a question of time until the government will make the taking of exercise compulsory.
Date of Junior Prom Changed to April 25
The date of the Junior Prom has been postponed from April 18 to April 25 according to "Chuck" Shofstall who is managing the Prom this year. The date was changed because the game was cancelled. The party will be held in the gymnasium and tickets will be on sale in several days.
Lieut. Coeil Forter, e08, was a visitor at the School of Engineering Tuesday. Lieutenant Forter has been stationed at Camp Greenleen, Ga., in the sanitary division. He was formerly city engineer of Toppeka, and is now employed by the Barber Asphalt Construction Company.
The contracts for the orchestra, decorations and refreshments have not been made but will be when the party goes on. The music has passed upon by the auditing committee.
Holden at Neodesha
Lieut. Cecil Forter Calls
Harley Holden, c18, will take a position on the Neodesha Daily Sun. Mr. Holden was recently discharged from Great Lakes Training Station. While here at the University, Mr. Holden was on the Kansan Board and was news editor of the Kansan in January, 1918.
Register Discharges to Prevent Any Loss
To prevent the loss of record of discharge papers held by soldiers and sailors, that come under the recent act of Congress granting them a bonus of $60, these papers may be registered with the Register of Debts, Miss Ezekiah Chupu, in the Douglas county court. A fee of one dollar is charged.
The discharge papers accompanied by an application for the bonus and other data are to be forwarded direct to the Zone Finance Officer, Lemon building, Washington. Often papers are lost in transit, or otherwise become mislabeled by the red tape necessary for them to pass through, which would result in a loss of these papers in an embarrassing situation. To guard against this many men are availing themselves of the privilege of recording them.
Plain Tales From the Hill
The entomology library is good for things other than study, according to Hoffman and Flora Sallee.
"I wonder who is making the howl in The Kansan about the Knights of the Golden 'K'? It must be some weak sister we left out. A man would not make a howl if he failed to get the coveted golden "K," said one of the winners of the "K."
A K. U. man in the service writes from the Texas camp: "The first thing to do now that we have whipped Germany is to whip Mexico and make them take Texas back, as the sand and wind down here is too much for us Americans."
When Hank Shimn entered the Kansan office where Governor Henry J. Allen was talking Thursday, a student remarked, "Look at Henry and
"Which one is Henry and which is Me?" Hank asked. "Both of our heads are so shiny."
The Architectural Engineers have a sign in their department which reads, "God Bless Our Home." The engineers say they have to spend enough time there to make the place feel like home.
The women want to know why it is that the men in laboratory classes always take off their coats when they are wearing silk shirts. The same men will remain in the hottest rooms with coats on when they are wearing wollen shirts.
The wife of a K.U. professor was at the Kappa house and upon scrutinizing the Kappa key said, "I want to congratulate you on being elected to Phi Beta Kappa. I think the keys are so beautiful.
"Ah, I got that task in without talking to it," said Professor C. E. Elmer while hanging up the rural survey of the churches of Iowa Wednesday morning for demonstrational purposes.
The significance of the fact may be had from the fact that it was a blunt tack and the wood was hard oak.
Forty-one Medicies To Go
To Rosedale Next Quarter
Forty-one students are expected to finish their medical work here at the end of this quarter, March 19. They go to Rosedale next quarter to the University School of Medicine where they will complete their course. The following is a list of the students: H. A. Real, B. P. Bixby, H. S. Bennie, E. H. Blaselid, J. A. Bountr, R. F. Campbell, A. R. Chambers, Wilfed Cox, L. A. Curry, G. E. Cowles, T. R. Conklin, R. K. Collins, C. F. Dixon, Lervy Elrick, R. W. Emerson, Herman Friesen, H. A. Gestring, Jack Hutton, S. J. Hurwitz, R. K. Hoover, R. E. Howes, Rolle詹斯, J. H. Koch, Hester J. Kaufman, W. E. Martin, E. F. John, M. Mott, Louis Morgan, Carl Neuman, G. E. Owens, E. T. Patton, P. R. Pannie, A. N. Sandidge, C. O. Scholer, J. M. Scott, R. G. Soper, Edward Thiessen, H. J. Terrill, T. J. Waltz, W. W. Weltmer and F. I. Wilson.
H. M. Curtman, e15, formerly an instructor in electrical engineering at the University, was a visitor at Martyn Hall. Wednesday. Since leaving the University, Mr. Curtman has been employed by the General Electric Company. Subsequently, Y, has taught physics in the Pratt Institute of physical in the Pratt Institute of physics in the York, and was for some time in a munition factory at Jackson, Tennessee.
H. M. Curfman Here
Credit in University Will Probably be Given to Returned Soldiers
Seventeen Men Recently Returned from Service Will Submit Plans
That returning officers and enlisted men deserve some University credit for their work in the service is unquestioned, but just what system to use and the number of hours to give is the complex problem according to Dean Olin Templin.
"There have been several petitions for credit sent in by students just returning from the service, said Dean Templin, "in fact the technical schools as well as the College have been contemplating what to do with these petitions for some time. I called a meeting of seventeen of the returned men Tuesday afternoon, and after discussing the matter with them asked that they submit, each one a plan of their own. We will probably take these into consideration when drawing up a final plan."
"Men who have been in the service a year or two years," said Lieut. J. Godfrey Stutz, "are at a disadvantage in re-enatering school, unless some fair recognition is made for whatever development of learning he may have acquired while in service. Particularly is this true for the man who left school two years ago to enlist or to go to an officers' training camp. He has lost two years of school work and the youngster who stayed in school all during the war is going to beat the returned soldier to graduation and out to that job both of them want, unless college credits are adjusted to give the returned soldier just credit for whatever he may have learned in qualities of leadership or in other things while he was in the service."
There was only one main question discussed at the meeting according to Dean Templin, namely, how much credit shall be given. It seemed to be the universal opinion that the returning officer should be especially considered, because of the responsibility and mental as well as physical effort put forth. The question was also raised about the relative credit given for time in the army, navy or marine corporation, that is how much more credit a man who has lost three semesters work should be entitled to, than a man who has lost but one semester. It was also pointed out that it would not be fair to give credit to officers merely because they had received a commission. For there are returned men who have been commissioned less than six months and others that have been officers for more than a year.
Senate Committee Wants Suggestions from Faculty
The Secretary of the University Senate has written to each member of the University faculty asking that suggestions be given to the committee appointed by the Senate to revise and amend the constitution of the University.
The purpose of the Senate in doing this is to get the suggestions of the teaching staff in order that their in-ness be more fully considered 'n the future.
The members of the committee who will work over the constitution are: Professors Ashton, Blackmar, Boynton, Burdick, Butler, Cogill, Coohill, Burdick, Kelly, Koster Olin, Patterson, Sayre, Sisson, Skilton, and Templin.
Aesthetic Dancing at 4:30
The class in aesthetic dancing will be under the supervision of Dr. Alice Goetz next quarter. Doctor Goetz began instructing this class at the first of the year but because of illness turned it over to Mrs. Dorothy Cole, at Christmas time, who has taught the class this quarter. Doctor Goetz will instruct the class at 4:30 p'clock every day the third quarter so that all women interested will have a chance to take it.
McNown on Santa Fe Trail
Prof. W. C. McNown of the School of Engineering was in Kansas City Tuesday to confer with Black Ventch, consulting engineers, on plans for paving the section of the Santa Fe Trail which is included in Pawnee Country. This improvement, which is one of the federal aid projects, contemplates a 16-foot, monolithic brick pavement.
Prof. and Mrs. A. C. Terrill announce the birth of a daughter, Caroline Louise, February 26.