UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOLUME XVI.
Chancellor and Dean Go to Chicago Today On S.A.T.C. Business
Financial Questions and Dispo sition of Barracks Probably Will Be Discussed
Chancellor Frank Strong and George C. Shaad, dean of the School of Engineering, will leave Lawrence this afternoon for Chicago to attend a meeting of the American Association of Universities with the business agent of the committee of special training of the Students Army Training Corps, in regard to the financial settlement of the government with the various units of the S. A. T. C. throughout the country.
It is expected that the government business agent will out-line a method of final settlement with the University. It would be important to imagine the barricks will be arranged.
Another thing that has been before the University authorities and that may be cleared up at the meeting is the subtitle for students who were inducted into the S. A. College by the bursaries instituted and who were compelled to board and room in private or fraternity houses for several weeks.
Dean Shad, who will accompany the Chancellor to the meeting was at the head of the educational department of Section B of the S. A. T. C. and will arrange with the agent for a settlement for that section.
Chancellor Strong expected to attend a meeting of the State Educational Council at Topka today and tomorrow, with Dean Kelly of the School of Education, but the summons to the Chicago S. A. T. C. assembly caused a change in his plans and he will be unable to go to Topka.
Basket Ball Popular With University Women
Coach Hazel Pratt Announces the Election of Squads This Week
"An unusual amount of interest is being taken by the women of the University in basketball this year," said Coach Hazel Pratt, director of sports in the physical education department. "There were 150 women out for practice this week and last week, which is certainly a splendid showing."
"Dr. Alice Goetz is testing the hearts of all women taking basketball and only two have been disqualified because of weak hearts. These were hearts left weak from influenza and will probably be only temporary disqualifications.
"Tuesday night thirty-five women in the junior and sophomore classes were out for practice between the hours of 6 and 7:15 o'clock. This is a splendid record, considering that this is the meal hour. The sophomores, who are showing up well from last year are Helen Olen, Media Smith, Helen Bonenett, Margaret Wasson, Claudia McCarthy, much good, new material in the sophomore class and there will be quite a change in the line-up this year.
"The juniors also have a great deal of new material—especially for guards and without a doubt there will be a change in their line-up from last year. The women who were on the team last year and showed good work. Thus day at practice, they Nosh, Earl Anne Centers; Earl Anne Lainia, Iris Russell; Ruth Trent, Martha Wulf, forwards; and Ruth Bottomly, guard."
Miss Pratt announces that the basketball squads will hold elections for their captains this week. The freshmen will elect at 3:20 o'clock Friday; sophomores at 4:15 o'clock Friday; juniors at 4:15 o'clock Thursday and seniors at 3:20 o'clock Thursday.
The attention of all students of the University is called to the following Senace Rule;
...
During a regular session of the University no student or group of students may give or attend a dancing party in Lawrence, which is thrown open on Sundays and discriminately at a fixed time.
ALBERTA L. CORBIN,
Chairman of the Joint Committee on Student Interests
. . . . .
NUMBER 58
Y. M. Mixer Well Attendee
A large attendance was reported at the Y. M. C. A mixer last night. The men who attended saw four good boxing bouts by Harris and Kendall, Stacey and Collins, Calkins and Baird, and Shurtleff and Widener. The respective winners were Kendall, Collins, Bairst, and Widmer. Bill Hoffman refereed the bouts. Much enthusiasm was shown in cheering and singing.
Date Set For Law Scrim
Date Set for Law Scrim
February 14 is the date set by the law students for the annual Law Scrim to be held in Robinson Gymnasium. A bar of admission has not been announced. This will depend on a Senate ruling. It has not yet been decided whether or not the scrim will be formal.
"That will depend on how much we can charge," said George Strong, manager of the Scrim.
Quo Vadis, Bill?
It is 4,000 miles from Amerongen,
Holland, where the ex-kaiser is boarding,
to St. Helena, where they took
care of another too-ambitious person.
It is 400 miles from Amerongen
to Paris, where they invented the
mullitine.
It is 4,289 miles from Amerongen to Kansas, where they used to hang gentlemen summarily for no greater offense than stealing a horse.
It is 3,060 miles from Amerongen to Sing Sing, where they maintain an electric chair.
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS, THURSDAY AFTERNOON, JANUARY 16. 1919.
It is a disputed distance straight down through the soosil at Amerongen, where the Central Powers, the real, the previous and still existing Central Powers, maintain a red hot grill.
Dramatic Club to Play For University Clubmen
The play, "Suppressed Desires", will be given at the University Club the night of January 17, at 8 o'clock, by the department of public speaking under the direction of Prof. Arthur MacMurray. The pictures donated to the club by Professors Cahill, Frazier and Osma, will be sold at auction. Members of the university committee to include in the club's social activities an evening of dancing and cards each month during the cold weather. Arrangements have accordingly been made to set aside the first Saturday evening of February and March, and the last Saturday evening of April (February 1, March 1, April 26), for this purpose.
Martin Receives Collection Of War Relics from Son
H. T. Martin, assistant curator of the museum, has just received a collection of war reliefs from his son Corp. Jerry Martin, 130 Field Artillery.
This collection contains German helmets, officers buttons, an spike from a German officer's helmet, belt buckles from different organisations with the typical "Gott Mit Uma" on them, and several pieces of shrapnel. The helmets are put in metal but have dentis made by flying shrapnel. These relics are on display at the entrance to the museum.
K.U. Graduate Hired as Manager by Methodists
McKinley Warren, A. B. '15, has accepted a position as secretary of the First Methodist Church of Lawrence. Mr. Warren has had many years of experience in similar work. He served three years at the Haskell Institute Y. M. C. A. and one year in the army under General O. T. C. He won his commission as second lieutenant. He recently received his discharge
"Mr. Warren will really act as business manager of the church," said the pastor, the Reverend Doctor Klyne, and his duties will relate to the direction of various religious activities. As he was a student himself, he will work especially with the K. U. student body."
Mr. Warron's office, which is to be located in the new social rooms of the church, will be open seven days a week.
Read the Daily Kansan.
Discharged Enlisted Men
Can't Dress as Officers
Are Subject to Court Martial Trial for Wearing Leather Leggings
Leather leggings and officers' insignia cannot be worn by discharged enlisted men, according to a telegram received this morning from the War Department by Capt. W. A. Hatch. Enlisted men appearing in uniform which they are not entitled to wear are subject to arrest on the charge of impersonation, according to the information given by Wahab United States subject to trial by court martial. Many men on the Hill who are not following these uniform regulations must do so at once, according to the military authorities.
Honorably discharged soldiers may wear a scarlet chevron on their left sleeves, point up, midway between the elbow and the shoulder, one on the cost and one on the overcoat, according to information from the War Department.
Sour Owl Will Hoot
For First Time This Year
Staff and Officers Have Been Elected for Next Month's
Owl
The Sour Owl will make its appearance next month for the first time this year. At a meeting of the Owls last night the staff was elected and plans were made to begin work on the Sour Owl at once.
The following staff was elected:
editor, Luther Hanger; assistant editor,
Marvin Harma; art editor, Freed Leach;
business manager, Glenn Banker;
advertising manager, Baill Church.
The following officers were also elected for the present year; president, James Knowles; vice-president, Harold Hoover; secretary-transurer, Mark Adams.
Following the play, "Murder Will Out," presented at the Little Theater, Wednesday afternoon, the Dramatic Club elected Olive Galloway and Helen Naismith to membership. The four other members of the cast have been placed on the waiting list and will receive further consideration.
Dramatic Club Elects Two
Fifty-one Cents is Amount Asked from Each Student
Each Organization Will Be Solicited Before Saturday By Student Committee
At that time if the instructor did not come before five minutes past the hour students were allowed to "cut" the class. One day the students looked into the room, compared watches, and lingered in the hall until the time was up. Then they all romped down stairs except Roosevelt who happened to find some trigonometric formulas, 'rot' interested, and followed the board around the room with wonderful concentration he so often showed. He had almost reached the door again when he all but bumped
From the very first day in class until the day he left school he was a persistent questioner. He disgusted his instructors immediately because he gave them no time to talk. Classmates recall the time when in geology, Roosevelt asked one question after another to force to say, "As I was saying, gentlemen, when Mr. Roosevelt asked his fourth question—"
Fifty-one cents is expected of each student in the Armenian, Syrian, and Near East Fund campaign which will end Saturday.
Theodore Roessel's college career was full of exiting experiences not unlike the college career of many men of today with the possible exception of the fact that he was studious to a degree not attained by many of the great Grecian heights, according to an article in October 12, 1912.
Martha Banker, student chairman of the campaign, said this morning, "I am preparing a list of the sororities and fraternities, and intend to have each called. Each student will be expected to give fifty-one cents, or enough to feed one person three days."
In the fall of 1876 Roosevelt left a young man of 17 with side-wishers and red-hued cheeks caused by a bright red necktie, journeyed from his home in New York to Harvard, then a small school with no great stadium spaces as it contains today. But it was considered a great school even then.
Funds are to be turned in directly to I. J. Meade, Treasurer of the Douglas County committee.
Y.W.C.A. Women Conduct Bible Classes at Haskell
Roosevelt even then was indifferent to criticism as is shown when at one of his first public speeches he was introduced as Roose-eva velt intend to do. He told the inscriber who introduced him how to pronounce his name.
A message of appreciation has been sent by H. B. Pearls, superintendent of Haskell Institute, to Miss Katherine Duffield, secretary of the University Y. W., C. A., for the work done by University women in teaching Bible classes at Haskell this year.
Twelve classes have been conducted this year, as compared with five last year. The classes meet Sunday afternoons, and are made up of Indian girls in the upper grades and junior high school. The teachers are Adele Murphy, Neva Ritter, Lily Strand, Nell Hohn, Florence Blunda, Reida Sheppard, Wanda Ross, Dorothy Dawson, Lillian Cottrell, Mary Anderson, Ruth Guild, and Dorothy Sandberg.
"So much has been published about the regular work of the University having been badly disorganized this year on account of war emergencies," said Mr. Pennis, "that at least K. U. organization has doubled its efforts and is reaching out in helpful work to a larger degree than ever been ready to co-operate in the religious training of the Indian girls at Haskell, but this year have furnished a larger number of teachers of Bible classes than usual."
Supt. H. B. Peairis Sends Message of Appreciation to Miss Duffield
Roosevelt Energetic at College From Very First was Persistent Questioner Was Member of Dozen Different Organizations
He was a politician from the first and in 1880 he wrote an essay on "The Machine in Politics" and after reading it to one of the college clubs he originated a motion to have a "straw vote" in the college to show the choice of the college for President of the United States.
into the engrossed instructor writing, behind the door. **Door rovan** ran to the outside steps and shouted: "Come back fellows, he's behind the door."
Roosevelt was a member of the editorial board of the Advocate但 he wrote but few editorials on account of his numerous other activities.
He was entirely too light for football and never was able to make the college team, but his classmates remember that he was out with the rest of the fellows almost every evening and that he was so gritty that he gained the respect of every man on the Harvard gridiron.
John Woodbury was one of his classmates and he said: "Never have I seen a man with such a varity of interest as Roosevelt." He would meet fellows and stop them to argue over anything that happened to be uppermost in his mind. He joined the Riffe Club, the Art Club, and in his sophomore year organized a Finance Club. During his freshman year he was ejected from a theater in Boston for creating a disturbance. He was trying to make a secret society and had been ordered to go to the United States, where unwieldy clubs and aplaud violently in all the quiet scenes. He was a member of a dozen different organizations chief among them was The Hasty Pudding Club, The Porcelain, Alpha Delta Phi, and Phi Beta Kappa.
He selected practical courses from the few elective courses that Harvard ossessed and pursued them with a seal seldom equalled.
Y. W. Finance Committee Meets
A prayer meeting of the Y. W. C.
A. Finance Committee was held Wednesday morning in Myers Hall. Ruth Guild was chairman. The captains and their teams were given the names and pledge cards of the women they are to see during the next few days. The campaign for funds will last until January 20.
Dean Kelly speaks in Topека Dean F. J. Falken left for Topeka this afternoon to attend a meeting of the council of administration of the schools of Kansas. He will talk to the superintendents of city schools on "A Scheme of Americanization," and to the representatives of different colleges on "Lessons for American Colleges Taught by the S. A. T. C." Chancellor Frank Strong was expected to give a talk at the meeting, but was called to Chicago on S. A. T. C. business.
Plain Tales From the Hill
"Now nain' is just disgusting the way this younger generation of girls dress?" said three colored women on the campus this morning, as one of the university women passed, dolled out in furs, and no hat or coat.
"That's just like 'em," they continued, "wearing furs on their backs and nothing any place else."
The wiles of the politicians are many. One of the girls at the Alemannia house was called up last night by a certain man in the university. The girl did not remember that he was the leading politician on one of the class tickets. After talking for about twenty minutes, the girl had hopes that he was going to ask her for a date for the Law Serim or at least to the Varsity. But at the conclusion of his talk, he merely said, "Now remember to come to the polls tomorrow and support my ticket."
It has been reported from very good authority that more than half of the members of the University Club are planning on spending the week-end in Kansas City. The informer was in doubt as to the cause of the trip, but it is either because of the outlook for prohibition or else they like the delightfully wicked sound of the name of the play "Hitchy-Koo."
"When are we going to make our sorority calls? asked the Greek frosh.
"When election's over, so you followes can do a sort of mail order business on the women at the polls and win," answered the senior.
Miss Lynn's class of juniors in Narration and Description wrote descriptions of "night sounds" as their assignment the other day. Here is the way one junior described the snores that kept her awake.
"I could not sleep all night because from my sister on the other side of the bed would come every once in a while, a steaming sound like hot gurgling mush."
One of the Pi Phi upperclassmen went into a college restaurant last night and asked to see the sorority bill. 'I don't want all of it,' she said, just that for the nuts.'
Dr. R. C. Hughes to Speak
Dr. R. C. Hughes of Chicago, associate secretary of the General Board of Presbyterian Church in America will speak at 4:30 o'clock Monday afternoon, January 20. His Wife "The Relief of the New Era" Doctor Hughes was in Lawrence a year ago when the late I. Wilbur Chapman addressed the students.
No Report From Phone Meeting
Chancellor Frank Strong, State Manager James Kimball, and John Shea, Superintendent of Buildings and Grounds, attended a meeting in Topeka Friday, the purpose of which was to consider a change in the rates for the University telephone service. No results of the meeting have been given out.
Rice Places on All Star Team
Rice Places on All Star Team
For the first time in the history of the school, the University of Kansas was awarded a place on the all-star college track team of 1918 when Carl Rice star Jayhawker high jumper and again given a place in the high jump. Only two western athletes were awarded places on the team, the other being Howard Drew, famous Drake University spinner, who won the choice in the hundred. Rice won the high jump at the Penn. Relay games at Philadelphia last year.
Read the Daily Kansan
Class Elections Held Today Wake Interest Of Student Population
ballots to Be Counted After o'Clock—Results Announced Tomorrow
Much interest was shown in the annual student elections today and early indications were that the final count n the senior, sophomore, and freshman contests would be close. Keen competition appeared in these classes out the juniors have only one ticket n the field.
Notwithstanding the rivalry in the remaining three classes and the old-time electionering on the Hill, the campaign has been unusually clean and free from mud-slinging. Except for the posters which adorned the sidewalks and trees all over the Hill this morning, there was little evidence of a hot political scrap. Supporters of each ticket were working hard around the polls, however, inviting students to come in and vote for their candidates and passing out political cards.
Members of the Student Council were posted at each of the polls to supervise the election. There is no noon count in the Kansan today because the Student Council members thought it inadvisable. In former years incurate counting and graft has been strongly hinted at and this year there can be no such accusations, and the count will not be taken until the polls are closed at 4 a'clock this afternoon. Council members have expressed a desire that they be not bothered with queries about election returns this evening, as the final count will be published tomorrow;
Supreme Court Decides Malice Is Test of Libel
Untrue Charges Will Not Convict Unless Personal Note Is Present In Attack
Criticism of the official conduct of a public officer by a newspaper will not render the newspaper subject to libel proceedings, according to a recent decision of the Kansas Supreme Court. Even if the charges are not true, so long as no malice appears in the article printed the newspaper may not be held. The case in question was one in which D. J. Carver, county attorney of Miami County, sued W. D. Greason, editor and publisher of the Miami Republican. Mr. Greason had criticised the county attorney's action on some paroles, by saying: "Less politics, less juggling, less collusion between the county attorney and certain lawyers in Paola is necessary."
Both the lower court and the supreme court held that if the newspaper did not show any personal malice toward the official or attack hibl. private character, the newspaper could not be held for damages. Heretofore in cases of this kind the fact that no personal malice was shown might secure a verdict of only a nominal amount of damages, but libel was usually proven, at times in very unimportant cases, while the new rule will allow much good criticism, formerly dangerous.
Student Councils to Fix Student Point System
A meeting of the two governing bodies, the Men's Student Council and the council of the Women's Student Government Association will be held next week to appoint three members from each body to act as a committee in conferring with the eligibility in regard to the point水塘.
It is the intention of Prof. H. C. Thurman, who is chairman of the eligibility committee to meet as soon as possible so that the students may understand their work in the committee.
The present credit system has had different standards for men and women and has not been enforced successfully. But the establishment of the uniform point system there will be no trouble in finding the standing of any student, Professor Thuranu believes.
Prof. A. J. Boynton, head of the department of economics and commerce, gave an address Wednesday evening at Salina at the annual meeting of the Chamber of Commerce. His subject was "Business and Reconstruction."