UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOLUME XVI.
NUMBER 77
Division Of Vocations To Send Questionaires To Faculty Members
Vocational Information of College Courses Desired by Director A. T. Walker
Would Assist the Students
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, FEBRUARY 12, 1919.
Prof. A. T. Walker, who was recently appointed Director of the Division of Vocations, is sending a letter to all the faculty members asking for suggestions in planning various courses suitable to the different vocations. It also is the intention of the division to give tests, such as Prof. W. S. Hunter has given in the army, to ascertain the special abilities of the students.
Sub-Committee Will Test Specia Abilities of the Students
The professional schools already take care of advising their students, but for most of the vocations in which the students are interested, the general feeling is that a wisely selected and well-balanced college course is the best preparation. The committee believes that certain courses should be connected with certain aptitudes and vocations, and help in selecting courses should remedy the aimless pursuit of credits.
The Division does not wish to be considered an employment bureau. For the present it will do nothing toward trying to obtain positions for students and its work will be confined to get-ting information. The questionnaires to faculty members ask:
"We shall wish to send students to members of the faculty for information and advice about certain vocations for what vocations may we send them
"For what vocations, exclusive of teaching, does your department contribute essential training?
"If possible, please direct us to the best printed statements about those vocations with which you are familiar—such statements as will best help students who are considering those vocations."
The committee to gather and classify this data consists of M. C. Elmer, Alberta L. Corbin, W. M. Duffus, L. N Flint and C. C. Williams.
The committee for testing the special abilities of students consists of W. S. Hunter, F. J. Kelly and Olin Templin.
Kansas City Editor Spoke To Journalism Students
Marvin Creager of K. C. Star Talked on Duties in Newspaper World
Marvin Creunger, A. B., '04, former telegraph editor of the Kansas City Star, now exchange editor of that magazine, and also in the department of journalism today.
"The reporter is the backbone of every newspaper," he told one class, "therefore be a good reporter. To be a good reporter, write facts, tersely, logically, clearly and concisely, without frills. Always consider the source of your information and do not be mislead."
In another class he talked of the community service of newspapers, and quoted the Detroit News as an example. The News always has experts on its staff to handle all utilities franchises. Some of the campaigns carried on by the Kansas City Star also were mentioned.
Suppression of news was another phase discussed by Mr. Creager.
"First you must get your news," said Mr. Creaguer, "and then it is not the province of the reporter to decide whether or not the news shall be suppressed, but the duty of the managers of the paper. The only justification for suppressing wherein he adds, "is the occasion wherein public interest is served by the emission of otherwise interesting news."
Mr. Creager also pointed out that the reporter, once his story has been put into type and printed, has no opportunity to erase an error.
Mr. Crerag is a member of the Phi Kappa Psi.
Another thing that keeps a returning lieutenant poor is the purchase of enough bars to go around among the girls who want the ones he wore in France—New York Tribune.
Send the Daily Kansan home
"Stem" Foster Elected Captain of 1919 Eleven
Lewis "Stem" Foster, quarterback on the Jayhawker eleven for the last three seasons and All-Valley quarter back in 1917, was elected captain of the 1919 team at the annual banquet of the squad Tuesday night. Foster has been one of the most dependable players on the Kansas team and it was his brilliant work in the last quarter of the Aggie game last fall that caused the defeat of the Manhattan team.
He will be eligible next year because of the Missouri Valley ruling making last year a blank year because of the S. A. T. C.
A Bill Allowing the cities of Kansas, which are suffering under the high prices allowed the Kansas Natural Gas Company, to go into the gas business on their own account, was introduced by Senator Nightswinger, and will be introduced into the house. The Nightswenger Bill authorizes the cities of the state, singly or in conjunction with each other to build, buy, lease, rent or otherwise acquire natural and artificial gas plants and lines either within or without the state.
The Bigger 'Ole
*Written for students who are too busy or too
hard to read a paper from outside; the campus.*
*
Gov. Henry Allen served notice today that he was unutterably opposed to the use of any, but the English language in the common schools of Kansas. The Governor has received numerous letters and some petitions asking if it would not be soon possible to resume the teaching of various languages, chiefly German, in the parochial and private schools in Kansas. The governor's answer was "no" in large letters.
Administration Leaders in the House tonight won their fight for a declaration by Congress of a policy of naval expansion unless limitation of world armament is agreed upon at the Peace Conference. After an all day debate the House vote 192 to 142 to approve the new navy program to increase shipmen and on them trainers and immediately afterwards adopted the entire Naval Appropriation Bill by a vote of 281 to 50.
The Total Daily average of Mid-
Continent production for the past week is 293,700 barrels of oil of this the average for Okhatae s 213,600 barrels and for Kansas $^{9}-10-00$.
Announcements
Owls will meet Wednesday evening at 9:00 o'clock at the Kappa Sig house.
Sphinx society will meet at Squire's Studio Thursday afternoon February 13, at 3:30 o'clock to have their picture taken for the Jayhawk. It is requested that all the members be present, and on time.
Sociology Club will meet at 7 o'clock Thursday evening in Fraser Rest Room. Members are asked to prepare for a discussion on Prohibition and Saloon Substitutes."
Woman's Forum will meet in Room 110, Fraser Hall, Thursday at 4 o'clock. Professor O'Leary will talk on, "Prospects of the Peace League."
of af-
matics Club Monday
4:30 o'clock The club,
meetings every two w
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Commerce Club will have its picture taken at Squires, at 12:30 Friday.
Jayhawker Board meeting at 4:30 Thursday.
"The Russian Peasant and Multi-
plication," and "The Probability
Curve," the subjects of talks
given by Viola Eagle and Fila."
El Altena will meet in Room 313,
Fraser Hall, Thursday at 3:09 o'clock
The Sociology Club will meet Thursday, February 13, at 7:00 o'clock, in Fraser rest room. Roy Burt and Fanny McCalm will lead a discussion on "Prohibition and Saloon Substitutes."
Engineering Fraternity Initiates
Sigma Tau, honorary engineering
fraternity, has initiated these new
members. C. A. Keener, Coch
C. A. Willems, Blazier,
Leon Sherwood, Cary P.
Butcher and Guss L. Googins.
In the last days of a war that had taken the country for four years, Lincoln expressed the deepest feeling of the nation, in his second inaugural address. His hope was that the peace which would soon come might be lasting, and that the nations might not again be plunged into war.
The words spoken by the president in 1865 are easy to understand today. That the hope expressed in them, when the League of Nations was not even hardly conceived by statesmen, may be realized now at last, in the cry of the nation today.
"Foondly do we hope, feverfully do we pray, that the mighty scourge of war may pass away." If God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the bison in its two hundred and fifty years of unequal toll shall be swanked until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by an盟盟 drawn by the盟盟, as we said three thousand years ago, so that it must be said the judgments of the Lord are true and righteous all other.
Doctor Goetz Lectures On Health Standards
"With malice toward me, with charity for alf, with firmness to the right, let us strive on so finish the work we pre in, to bind up the nation's wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow and his orphan, to do all which may achieve and cheer a just and lasting peace among ourselves with all nations."
Is Member of Social Hygiene Division of Commission on Training Camp Activities
"My lectures to more than 3,000 women and girls in Detroit last week have given me vital subjects upon which I shall give lectures in March to the women taking hyrgine in the city of Kansas," said Dr. Goetz today.
Doctor Goetz has just returned from making a tour in Colorado where she has been giving lectures to the women upon the subject of aiding the government in keeping up the moral and health standards of soldiers after they return to community life.
Home of Har Freshmen and Sopho
Doctor Goetz is a member of the women's section of Social Hygiene Division of the Commission of Training Activities of the War Department. She explained some of the work today, saying, "the draft has disclosed so much disease and defect among the men of the army that an educational program has been added to the other activities in order to produce which the men may be shown the causes and methods of preventing disease. A further
Women Teams Will Have Final Struggle Feb. 1
step has been taken by the government that being, the organization of a women's section for which a group of women physicians were selected from all over the United States, to give information to what the government was doing for the men by keeping up the health and moral standards.
"The work of the women's section will last until the first of March when it is to become incorporated into the educational work of the various state boards of health. In fact Kansas has already taken up this work."
J. O. Jones Contributor
To January News-Record
The finals of the women's interclass basketball game will be played Thursday night, February 13, in the gymnasium at 7:00 o'clock. The seniors will play the freshmen and the juniors and sophomores will compete with each other for the first time this year. The standing of the teams at present is: juniors-first—seniors and sophomores-tie for second place—and the freshmen-fourth—senior. This cannot be determined until after the decisive games are played Thursday night. Fast games are being anticipated for that time. The admission to the games is a W. A. A. ticket or twenty-five cents, plus a three cents war tax on each admission.
A short meeting of all students in engineering will be held in
Doctor Goetz intended to speak in Kansas but the work was taken over by the State Board of Health.
specially urged to be as will be considered school activities of men.
is "Further Tests On Time of Mixing Cement"
Prof. J. O. Jones, instructor in hydraulics in the School of Engineering is a contributor to the January 23 issue of the Engineering News-Record, writing on "Further Tests on Time of Mixing Cement."
"I am of the opinion that the ability to produce good concrete in a brief period of time depends a good deal on the construction of the mixer." the article states. "Mixers may be classified according to the construction of the drum into two well defined sections, and then carry the concrete up near the top and then drop it; and those without buckets."
Professor Jones was employed as an engineer of tests on one of the large government projects last summer when he carried out some experiments which would tend to justify the statement that the minute mix is successful. Contractors have been in favor of mixing concrete for only a minute or less while many engineers have held that concrete to have sufficient strength must be mixed for a longer period.
"The stimulus for my investigation," writes Professor Jones, "was the 'bach-a-minute' slogan of the manufacturers, and a specification of one of our large railways which recharges from the hydropower in the mixer the drum shall be given four complete revolutions before discharging.'"
The article describes tests which were carried on with six mixes of various sizes and types. The results show that concrete mixed for a brief period of time has sufficient strength for all practical purposes, and that the saving of time is an important element to be considered.
Laws Observe Holiday By Cutting all Classes
"Today, Lincoln's birthday, is a legal holiday," said Uncle Jimmy Green. "and I presume that the University would have observed it as such on an ordinary year, but so many things have been changed this year that we have lost a great deal of time. Had the students of the School of Law assume the job they would do? 'No,' but they just took it for granted: Law classes are meeting today but most of the students are not here."
There are only four law students, three men and one woman, who felt bound by the University regulations this morning. The other woman and men of the school are observing the actions of the other students in the other schools of the University are meeting today as on any other day.
Quill Club will meet at Westminster Hall, Thursday, February 13, at 8 o'clock.
K. U. Track Team to Meet M. u. at K. C. March 2
The annual Kansas-Missouri indoor track meet will be held in Convention Hall, Kansas City, March 21, according to manager W. O. Hamilton of K. U. athletics. Manager Hamilton wrote to L. W. Shouse, manager of the hall, some time ago, accepting March 21 as the date, and contracts have now been sent to Missouri and Kansas.
The Jayhawkers will have a full month to prepare for the Tigers and Marshall Haddock, who will not come until November, will probably be ready for Missouri.
jumma Kennedy went to the Theta house for dinner Tuesday night. As she sat down to dinner she breathed a sigh of relief. The girls were all so happy and the atmosphere was so much better there than at the Kappa house where everyone goes down to it. But when you ask for fear some wicked burglar will come up their five escape and ram-sack the house again.
Plain Tales From the Hill
What was her surprise when she went upstairs to find that the ninety-five cents in her purse had been removed. Footprints were discovered outside just below the trellis. The other girls investigated and found that all together they were shy ten dollars.
Now Julia says she might just as well have stayed at home and the Thetaas say they wish she had if she had to bring the burglar with her.
Freshman girl, crawling into bed at night: Oh, dear, this has been the happiest day of my life.
Sympathetic Senior Sister: That is nice. What happened? Did you make an A in your psychology exam. Did you call the phone? Had six telephone, calls at dinner.
HEAVEN PITY THE COLLEGE WIDOW
HEAVEN PITY THE COLLEGE WIDOW March 19, the closing of the first quarter will mark the day when several well-known women on the hill will attend college widows. A bunch of the menus go to Rodeoade third quarter.
Some of these women who have never been known to go out of their way in the past to give even a friendly nod to a man, are now smiling and bowing to all the male members of their class.
There is a reason. The medics at Rosehale don't get to come home every week-end and some of the big ones stay place until the last of the month.
Notice: If any of these bereaved women will send in their names to the Plain Tales Editor, they will be printed free of charge, so that the K. U. men will know where to call for dates.
AREN'T GIRLS QUEER ANIMALS?
AREN't GIRLS QUEER ANIMALS!
We know several K. U. women
who work twenty-four hours a week in
the cafeteria at Myers Hall for
five hours credit, who would be
insulted if you offered them ten dollars a week to do the same thing in
their own mother's home.
THE BEST WAY TO DO IT
When you meet a man at a Varsity dance whom you told you were going home that week-emi.
Don't tell him that you just got a wire from your mother saying that he was dead.
Don't try to make him believe that the man you are with is a very dear cousin who dropped in very unexplicably and kept you from leaving town.
Don't look innocent and say "Oh no, I said I was going last night. You must have misunderstood me before he hurt me more than to be misunderstood."
Don't force your escort to trade a dance with him in order that you may explain in long drawn out sentences.
Just tell him casually when he passes you in the hall that if he will kindly refrain from calling you up in the future, that it will save you from a lot of unnecessary prevaricating.
At the Alemannia house, the telephone has supervised the alarm clock as the most important musical instrument. Dorothy Engle says that the alarm goes off every morning without having to turn on her, but Mary Smith gets her to class every morning by telling her that she is wanted at the telephone.
The Colgate College baskett team defeated their old rivals, the Syrracuse quintet, last week by a score of 17-15.
Jayhawker Five Plans To Get Ahead of Jinx-- At 'Poly' Game Tonight
Fast Kansas City Team Will Give K. U. a Hard Fight
Will Play in Robinson Gym.
University Has Scored Total of 177 to Opponents' 201 This Season
After losing two games to the Kansas Aggies at Manhattan Friday and Saturday, Coach Hamilton's Jay-lawyer basketball team will attempt a back in Robinson gymnasium tonight when they play the Kansas City, Mo., Polytechnic Institute five. Kansas has not won a game since Baker was defended by three points two weeks ago and the team lost by two points wirng column tonight. The men are expecting a hard game, as "Poly" always has had a fast team and this year is no exception.
Tonight will be the first opportunity students have had for many years to see a "Poly" team in action. Although Rockhurst College won from "Poly" Saturday, the Kansas City team is fast and has victories over strong Missouri state conference teams to its credit.
A—Polytechnic has strong team
The "Poly" five is composed
largely of former Kansas City high
school stars and includes three regu-
ulars who were once members of all-
victorious Central High teams.
Three ones are Duncal, captain and
one of last year's Central pair
who is playing forward for "Poly"
and is recognized as one of the best
dribblers and floor men in Missouri;
Ramsey a former Central guard who
is playing forward now; and Soden,
who played a guard for Central.
A—Kansas in fine trim
The other members of the Polytechnic quintet are Captain Walker, a veteran from last year's team who is playing center, and Slaymaker and Smith, guards. A.K.C.
The Jayhawkers are in good shape and will attempt to come out of their slump tonight. Bunn and probably Miller will be started at the forward positions, Matthews will be used at center and Mason and Bennett or Lonborg will be on the defensive end. Miller was used at forward in both Aggie games and proved his worth by his goal shoot-
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"Beau" Olcott's Quintette
To Play in Kansas City
"Fat" Nelson, Captain of 1917 Jayhawkers, to Play on Opposition Team
One of the most interesting and noteworthy basketball contests in the middle-west will be played in Kansas City tonight between the Great Lakes gobs and the Smeltzer aggregation. The gobs are being coached by Herman P. Olcott, who has a leave of absence from the athletic department of the University of North Carolina, son of the 1917 Jayhawker five, is playing on the Smeltzer team. The game will be played in Convention Hall at 8 o'clock tonight.
Coach Olcott was in Lawrence a while this afternoon visiting with friends. He predicted the game would be close, but that his basketkeepers would emerge victorious. The Great Lakes five have already cut seventeen deep water by 21 inches and record this season, and is in excellent fighting trim for the clash tonight.
Coach Oleotti also developed the best service football eleven in the country the past season, for which he was given a notable tribute by Walter Camp, one of the most noted football critics in the world. The team played in every part of the country and did not lose a single game.
Lieut. John D. Garver Dead
Lieut John D. Garver, former assistant professor of mechanical engineering, here, died February 11, in a New York hospital from influenza-pneumonia. Lieutenant Garver was a graduate of the University, and while here, had achieved quite a reputation as an authority on certain engineering questions. He entered the navy last summer, and was recently promoted to the rank of lieutenant, senior grade.