UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOLUME XVI.
Prize of $1000 Offered By National Conference For Essay in Economics
Paper to Deal With Problems of Labor, Unions, and Wages
Wages
All Eligible for Contest<sup>a</sup>
Manuscripts Must be Sent t Conference Board Before July 1
A prize of $1,000 for the best essay on industrial economics, dealing with many phases of the labor problem, trade unions, wage scales and the public aspects of these problems, is offered by the National Conference in Industrial Economics. The contest, which closes July 1, 1919, is open to all persons competent to write upon the subjects.
The judges of the essays include Dr. Jacob Gould Schurman, president of Cornell University; Henry R. Towne (University), and Frederick P. Fish of Baskerville.
The rules of the contest and subjects to be considered are:
NUMBER 80.
A practicable plan for representation of workers in determining conditions of work and for prevention of industrial disputes.
The major causes of unemployment and how to minimize them.
How can efficiency of workers be so increased as to make high wage rates economically practicable?
Should rates of wages be definitely based on the cost of living?
Should the state interfere in the determination of wage rates?
How can present systems of wage payments be so perfected and supplemented as to be most conducive to individuality and to the content of workers?
Should trade unions and employer's associations be made legally responsible?
The closed union shop *verma* the open shop; their social and economic relationship.
Contestants are not limited to papers of any length, but they should not be unduly expanded. Especial weight is given to English and to skill in exposition.
The copyright of the prize manuscript, with all publication rights, will be vested in the National Industria Conference Board.
Each competitor should sign his
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Committee Will Submit Varsity Dance Plans For Senate Approval
Suggest Joint Management by Men's Student Council and W. S. G. A.
At a meeting of the Student Interest Committee Saturday morning the following resolutions were adopted to be submitted to the Senate at the next meeting. These resolutions if approved by the Senate will give the Student Interest Committee power to act in regard to the management of the Varsity dances. The resolutions:
2. The joint committee shall name its own chairman, who shall have a vote. In case of a tie vote, the question at issue shall be referred by the chairman of the Student Interests Committee who shall, in such case, cast the deciding vote.
the Varsity dances. The result is
1. The management of the Varsity
dances shall be in the hands of a joint
committee consisting of three members
of the Men's Student Council and
three members of the Executive Council
of the Women's Student Government
Association.
3. The profits resulting from the Varity dances shall be allowed to accumulate until the end of each month when they shall be equally divided between the Men's Student Council and Women's Student Association. Any possible deficit shall, likewise, be borne equally by the two organizations.
4. The work incident to the management of the dances shall be apportioned equally between the two councils. One representative, of each council shall be present at the door at every dance.
5. Tickets of admission to the dances shall be given to each member of either council attending the dance, such tickets being paid for out of the general proceeds of the dance.
Students Ask Place On Senate Committee
At a meeting of the Men's Student Council Saturday morning, a resolution was passed to petition the Senate to allow students to sit with the Student Interest Committee, and to have a voice in voting.
This is a direct outgrowth of the articitation that has recently been stirred up among the students of the university who believe that the Senate is trying to usurp the rights of the student body. The petition will be presented to the Senate at their next meeting.
The Bigger 'Ole
Written for students who are too busy or too lazy to read a paper from outside the campus.
Governor Allen left this afternoon for Washington, having been summoned to appear before congressional committees investigating charges that the Thirty-Fifth division was not given adequate equipment and mechanical protection in the Argonne Forest Battle.
Victor Murdock member of the federal trade commission, told the house interstate commerce committee today that he feared the five big packers had acquired so much power that the United States government might not be strong enough to combat it.
President Wilson left the Murray mansion, Paris, at 9:05 o'clock Saturday evening for the Invalides Station on his return to the United States. The President will proceed to Breast where he will board the Steamer George Washington.
The primary election law which rescued the people of Kansas from political domination by corporate interest must run the gauntlet of the political wire pullers once more. An attack on the law is now being organized in the legislature. The plan is to practically wipe out the law. Candidates for United States senator, governor, and other state officers and congressmen are to be chosen at he old fashioned convention.
Reduction and limitation of armament and the limitation of the production of munitions of war; prohibition of a declaration of war until every means of settlement has been exhausted through arbitration, discussion and an appeal to the world opinion, and the agreement that no military shall try to forcibly disturb a nation's security or its political independence—these are the outstanding features of the league of nations.
Seathing denunciation was poured out in both the House and Senate day against the system and the men that had permitted the imposition of "harsh and cruel" sentences uon soldiers for minor infractions of the military regulations as was exposed before the Senate military committee.
Catherine Breshkovskaya "grane mother of the Russian Revolution" stood before the senate progananda injury committee today and pleaded that America send machinery and other materials to Russia at once to aid in an industrial reconstruction.
The House Committee of the Ohio body of state representatives has passed a bill appropriating an additional $100,000 to the $150,000 previously passed for the Ohio State University. This is for the construction of a new building for the women, and will serve the double purpose of a woman's gymnasium and a social center.
The Harvard Dramatic Club has announced that it will present no saving production this year. A difficult situation, and the fact that old members of the club are returning to college slowly and that there are not at present enough experienced men to furnish the nucleus for a successful production, are given as the reasons—Boston Transcript.
A meeting of all members of Pachacancan will be Wednesday afternoon at 3:30 o'clock in the Jayhawker office.
Announcements
A meeting of all members of Black Mask will be Thursday afternoon at 3:30 o'clock in the Jayhawk office
Senior, Junior, and all other class and organization pictures must be turned in this week at the Jayhawer office.
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS MONDAY AFTERNOON, FEBRUARY 17, 1910.
Are Asked to Present Budgets For Expenses of Formal
Pan Hellenic Members Discuss Dance Prices With Faculty Committee
Parties
What should be the maximum price for a house dance, hall dance, and formal party given by fraternities and sororites will be discussed Wednesday at 4:30 o'clock at a meeting of the University of Kansas. One member of each fraternity and sorority in the University of Kansas is invited to present.
One dollar and fifty cents a couple is the price now allowed by the Senate for a fraternity party. This price was agreed on as a war measure last year and the meeting Wednesday is called to decide whether or not the price is sufficient under the present conditions.
五代表atives from both the Men's and Women's Pan-hellenic met with the Student Interest Committee Saturday morning to discuss the matter but no satisfactory conclusion was reached as the Pan-hellenic delegates felt that the question was one that should be decided by Pan-hellenic be fore the Senate took action on it. Pan-hellenic delegates at the most
Each student represented at the meeting is asked to bring a budget of what his fraternity considers the necessary expenses for a formal party, and to give his fraternity's opinion on how much money that should be given during the year.
Pan hellenic delegates at the meeting Saturday were: Leonard Williams, Marcellus Law, Louise Broeker, Nellie Smith and Mary Samson.
Law Scrim Ticket Sale
Closes Thursday Night
Graft Will Be Eliminated and Managers Will Receive Nothing for Work
Ticket sale for the Law Scrim will close Thursday, night, February 20. The entire receipts of money from the sale of tickets will go toward music, decorations and the preparation of the floor. The floor will be in the best condition that it has been this year and extra time and money will be spent on it according to George Melvin, one of the managers.
Haley, with his six-piece orchestra will furnish the music. Dancing will commence promptly at 8:30 o'clock and will last until 1:00 o'clock.
The following men have tickets for sale: George Melvin, George Strong, Vigil H尔男, Bud Knapp, Mark Law, Leonard Willems, Warren Blazier, Warren Blazier, Walter Blaker, Victor Rodgers, Seldon Butcher, Carl Noll, William Wertz, Louis Rodgers, and Webb Wilson.
Records Show Decrease
In Enrollment of Men
Various Schools Show a De
crease Since Last
Quarter
An examination of the records in the various schools of the University indicates that the number of men attending the University is only 53 per cent of the number attending last quarter. Of these, only 64 per cent were members of the S. A. T. C. Of the members of the S. A. T. C. only 34 per cent are now in school.
Beiva Shores, fa'20, went to Topeka Friday evening to hear Schumann-Heink.
The School of Engineering was hit hardest, only one-third as many students being in attendance now as last quarter. The college has only 35 per cent of its men students, according to the records, but more than half of those now in attendance were not members of the S. A. T. C. The attendance in the School of Medicine is the same as last quarter, with practically the same students attending. The School of Law has 75 per cent more students than last quarter, only twelve of its S. A. T. C. students not returning, besides many others who have returned immediately after their discharge from the army.
Send the Daily Kansan home.
Graduate Club entertained with a Valentine party Friday evening at the home of Marjorie Rickard.
Senior Class Petitions K.U. Senate to Adopt 3-Day Commencement
Authorities Set Monday, June 16
For Commencement
Day
A petition that a 3-day commencement be arranged with baccalareate on Sunday, classday and alumni day Monday and the commencement address Tuesday is being signed by the members of the senior class.
The Senate had set Monday, June 16. At a meeting of the senior class Friday, Prof. A. T. Walker explained why the Senate had chosen Monday as Commencement Day and Professor L. N. Flint told of the old time commencement week. The seniors want a compromise of the two plans and when the petition is signed, it will be presented to the University Senate.
That all-University convocations be held at some hour in the morning is another petition the senior class authorized at its meeting Friday and which will be presented to the Senate. The senior class is the first student organization to take action on the lack of conventions which, during pre-war times, were the basis for closer unity between the departments and did much to develop college spirit.
In the first quarter and thus far in the second quarter, all convocations have been at 4:30 o'clock when there are the fewest number of students on the hill, instead of an hour in the morning when practically the whole student body is on the Hill.
There has been much agitation among the students for more convocations this quarter but very little has been said about the time of holding convocations.
Jayhawk Track Team
In K. S. A. C. Meet Tonight
Odds Favor Aggies for First Time in Several Years
Years
The Jayhawker track team, along with Coach Hamilton, left Lawrence this morning for Manhattan, where they will meet the Kansas Aggies on the indoor track in Nichols gymnasium tonight. The men were only in fair condition and although the odds favor the Aggies for the first time, the players have been Blue runners were determined to give a good account of themselves.
Word comes from Manhattan that Works, the star Aggie high jumper and hurdler, is sick and in no condition for the meet. If he does not compete, this may mean that Kansas will have a good chance in both the hurdles and the high jump.
Lawrence Water Plant Will be Completed April 1
The Lawrence city water plant will be in operation April 1, according to a statement made by Dr. Hia H.Hyde, professor of physiology, to lay. Until that time it is advisable to boil all city water for drinking purposes. According to the city authorities, the New York Continental Jewell Company, which was the sole source of material for the filters which are to be put in the Lawrence plant, have been given approval to store that year and have not been able to manufacture the necessary supplies. Owing to the lack of transportation facilities, it has not been possible to deliver the material.
One of the members enrolled in Newspaper in the Extension Division of the University of Kansas is an inmate of the State Penitentiary at Lansing.
Coal Miner Takes Journalism
His occupation now is that of a coal miner, and he is taking the course in the Department of Journalism out of a desire for greater knowledge. The man is well educated having finished High School and taken three years of college work.
The following out-of-town people were guests at the Alpha Chi Omega dance in F. A. U. Hall Saturday afternoon: Elizabeth Kauffman, Carolyn Doran, Maxine Heimbaugh and Genevieve Shinn, all of Kansas City; Katherine Howard and Ruth Richard of Emporia; Jessie Ellott, Patricia Evans, Ruth Thorhamn, Muriel Lyman, Ruth Switzer and Helen McKee all of Topeka.
K. U. First in Beaux-Arts;
Engineers are Honored
The report of the competitive drawings sent to the Beau-Arts Institute of Engineering in New York has been received by the department of architectural engineering. The Beau-Arts awards first mentions in the Analytique class to students of the University of Kansas; Leo Fleming, Hobart E. Machaman, Edward Birssek, E. K. Prokhrer. two students received mentions in the same class: Julia Carman and E. M. Moore.
In the Project class, Ernest Pickering, J. L. Benson, William Ehlower and L. F. Soxman were awarded mentions.
Plain Tales From the Hill
IF THE SHOE FITS YOU, WEAR IT
We notice in Tid-Bits that the Bank of England once issued an order for bording clerks to wear mustaches during business hours and that they were not allowed to be refused at one time to employ shopmen who wore a mustache or who parted their hair in the middle.
Well, the young women of the University of Kansas have succeeded pretty well in destroying the popularity of the mustache but it would take more than the Bank of England and take them to make certain men now in college move that part over an eighth of an inch.
We do hope that now that snow is melting the Allemanis won't think Spring is here again and decide to paint their canoe. They have gotten it all ready to give it a fresh coat three times this year and every time it has turned cold. It looks like if they wanted to use it, the safe way is to let it go unpainted.
Several suggestions were made by the professor as to the exact reason any young lady would have for desiring the material in the book so badly that she would tear out the page.
Finally one young lady suggestes: "Well, professor, the only thing that I can think of is that Nell probably came out to test her capping iron on."
Two University women had a certain book in their room for over a week. Later when one of the books was taken to class at the request of the professor, it was noticed that a number of nages had been torn out of it.
One of the Alpha Chi Omegas who happened to be walking past old North college, noticed their porch furniture sitting against one of the sides of the old building. Someone had taken the chairs off of their porch two or three weeks before and they hadn't even missed them.
It is the boast of one young woman of Kansas University that there is no Lawrence street car that she cannot give a two blocks head start and then catch, even when she wears her new spring suit which measures exactly twenty-seven inches across.
Wait until sweeping comes and it gets warm enough to sit outside, then one missing chair from any sorority porch would be enough to start a riot.
Four Famous Hills:
Bunker.
J. J.
Roland.
The
El Ateneo, Spanish Club,
Gives Debate in Spanish
Resuelvase que es mas facil ser una buena esposa que una buena maestra de español—Resolved. That it is Easier to be a Successful Wife than a Successful Spanish Teacher,—was the question of debate at El Ateneo Thursday afternoon. Agnes Brady, Marilyn Blum and Margo presented the affirmative and Myrtle Gildingenhagen, Ethelyn Green, and Alfreda Birsacs the narrative.
Professors Osma and Alhadejo gave the re-battal. The Judges were Professors Owen and Molino and Mr Huffman. The prize was supplied by Professor Owen. At the next meeting the club will present two short plays in which the male parts will be taken by the ladies of the club.
The Fort Hays Normal basketball team, after winning five of the six conference games they have played in the Western part of the state, will take an Eastern trip this week and visit Iowa City. Ottawa, Baker at Baldwin and Haskell at Lawrence. The Haskell game will be played Saturday night.
State Senators Visit University of Kansas In Behalf of Budget
Senators Pomeroy, Snyder and Thompson Confer With Chancellor Strong
$1,311,918 Asked for 1919-20
New Heating Plant Costing $200,000 May be Included in University Budget
Senators C. E. Snyder of Leavenworth County, F. C. Pomeroy of Jackson County, and W. S. Thompson of Reno County were here today inspecting the University with regard to the University budget for the next two years.
The largest single item in the budget is for a new power and heating plant for the University to cost $200,000. According to Senator Thompson it is not probable that any appropriation will be made for a new building, but the third floor of the Administration Building will be finished.
senators Pomeroy, Snyder and Thompson are members of the Ways and Means Committee. They were in consultation with Chancellor Strong for the greater part of the morning, later making an inspection if the journalism building and of the heating plant. The committee will rule in the university and check up on the budget before it is brought up for passage in before it is brought up for passage in the present session of the legislature.
The total of all budgets for state institutions is $14,000,000. The University is asking for appropriations for 1919-20 and $1369,688 for 1920-21.
Doctor Charles to Speak
On "Call of Today" at Y.W.
The "Call of Today" is the subject to be discussed by Dr. Grace Charles at a meeting of the Y. W. School at the Tuesday at 4:30 clck in Merrill's Hall.
Doctor Charles will tell something of the work of this reconstruction period and will point out opportunities for service open to the young women of today.
All young women of the University are cordially invited.
Mardi Gras Held in Gym Will Rival New Orleans Event, Says Manager
Carnival Given by Cercle Français to Help Support War Orphans
A Mardi Gras, rivaling that of New Orleans as far as is possible for one held in the gym, will be given Saturday, March 1, according to an anne-made piece this morning by Mariorie Rickard, president of the Cercle Francais, under whose auspices the event will be held.
War exhibits of various kinds will be among the free attractions and many of the organizations on the hill will manage booths. The Spanish farmhouse features telling parlor, Contetti and red lemonade—plenty of them—will be there.
Two prominent students will represent Pierrette and Pierrot and will be subjects for a "big lottery." They will dance for about five minutes, and the first three persons to guess their identity will be awarded prizes.
The evening will close with dancing
at start 10 o'clock. The doors will
open.
The purpose of the Mardi Gras is to raise money for the support of the two French war orphans adopted by the Circle Ferreca last year.
"Dates are unnecessary." Miss Rickard emphasized this morning. "Don't worry about having one. It is a regular carnival and dates are not needed."
The annual Phi Gamma Delta "Pig Dinner" was served at the chapter house Friday evening at 6 o'clock. Dancing began at the Fraternal Aid Hall at 10 o'clock. Hakey's orchestra furnished music during the dinner and for the dancing.
Tom Mulloy, c'17, of Kansas City,
spent the week-end at the Kappa
Sigma house.