UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
/OLUME XVI
Homer Talbot Resigns To Accept Better Job At Princeton University
Head of Municipal Reference Library to Leave About February 1
Rats; Rice Diet Hurts K. U.
University Now Seeking Man to Fill Mr. Talbot's
Homer Talbot, in charge of the municipal reference library at the University and secretary of the League of Kansas Municipalities, has given his resignation to Chancellor Strong and will leave about February 1 for Princeton University. Mr. Talbot has accepted the position of secretary of the New Jersey State
- HOMER TALBOT
League of Municipalities and will have his office and headquarters in the famous Princeton University Library.
FATHERED CITY MANAGER PLAN
Mr. Talbot came to his position here five years ago. Previously he had been an editorial writer and reporter on the K. C. Star, and had been in charge of the municipal reference library of Kansas City. Mr. Talbot received his A. B. degree at Wisconsin University in 1910 and his master's degree at the University of Kansas in 1918. He has been active in movements for more efficient and better government throughout Kansas since he became connected with the University.
Mr. Talbot was largely instrumental in the drafting and adopting of the bill for the optional city manager plan of municipal government which is now in use at Wichita and at Eldorado. He also has pushed the issuing of municipal bonds in small denominations that thrift might be encouraged among home folks of small means and that home money might be kept at home. Various forms of activities seeking a wider home rule in Kansas, and activities against the efforts of public utilities to lessen municipal ownership powers have been among what Mr. Talbot calls his more or less obtreperous and successful works.
“Of course, I regret leaving because of the breaking of some very dear associations here,” Mr. Talbot said, “but the chances for wider usefulness and appreciation are so much bigger in the new place. I couldn't refuse it.”
K. U. FUTURE BRIGHT
"The University of Kansas has a great future before it, if it is can get rid of its present system of forcing its faculty to live on rats and rice salaries, perhaps the lowest paid in almost any American university. I speak from experience and very intimate observation. There should be a University of the very highest standing here, but it will never be attained until the present rats and rice diet policy of the state is abrogated."
H. G. Ingham, secretary of the correspondence study division, said no successor had been appointed. He said the department would be held for a man to fill Mr. Talbot's place.
NUMBER 50.
Mr. Talbot's work at the University has given the state wide and favorable advertising and many state and city governments have sent investigators to Mr. Talbot's office to study movements he has fathered and put into successful operation. He has been offered frequent municipal jobs, but has declined them and recently refused a call to the faculty of the School of Government of the University of Texas.
Read the Daily Kansan.
S.A.T.C. Men Received December Pay Friday
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS, MONDAY AFTERNOON, JANUARY 6, 1919.
"Between 200 and 250 S. A. T. C. men received their pay for the month of December Friday afternoon in the Adjunct's office in Green Hall," said Capt. H. W. Hatch today. "Men who were discharged from the S. A. T. C. but did not return to school before coming back to work will have to wish to have their pay forwarded to them but who did not leave 'heir address should do so at once.'"
Only seventeen of the officers have received their discharge from the S. A. T. C. The medical officers who were assigned to temporary duty here have left but the others have not been notified to do so by headquarters.
When asked what his plans were,
Captain Hatch merely said, "I am
awaiting orders."
House Presidents to Meet In Council Wednesday
The regular meeting of the House President's Council will be held Wednesday afternoon at 4:30 o'clock in Room 110 Fraser. All house presidents or house managers of sororities and house president of rooming houses are considered members of the council and are asked to meet with representatives of the council of the W. S. G. A.
All houses who have not elected house presidents should do so immediately and should send their representatives to the meeting Wednesday, according to Mary Smith, vice-president of the W. S. G. A. New plans for house organizations will be discussed at this meeting.
Director McCanles Calls for New Band Try-outs
Tryouts for University band will be held Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday nights of this week from 7:30 to 9:00 o'clock, in Room 502 Fraser Hall. These will be the only chances for tryout. S. A. T. C. band members will not be required to take tryout, but those wishing to play must not fail to signify such intention to Director J. C. McCanles, by either seeing or telephoning him, so that they may be placed in the line-up. Mr. McCanles's telephone number is 2230 Red. This is the second phone Director McCanles will have organized this year.
Grover C. Loud assistant professor of journalism at the University last year, has been honorably discharged from the S. A. Capitol University, New York, and has accepted a position on the Boston Post.
Prof.-Lieut. Loud Joins Staff of Boston Post
Mr. Loud resigned from the faculty last year to enter the training camp at Plattsburg, N. Y., where he received his commission as a lieutenant.
Blackfriars Club will meet Wednesday, January 8, at 7:30 p. m., in Room 213, Fraser Hall. A short program will be given. All upperclassmen, graduates, and members of the faculty are invited. A business meeting will follow, which all old Blackfriars are urged to attend.
Announcements
Miss Katherine Duffield, general secretary of the Y. W. C. A. will be at her office every morning from 8:30 until 12 o'clock except Saturday and Sunday. Office hours in the afternoons and Saturday will be by appointment.
At a recent meeting of the American Association of University Professors, Dean F. J. Blackmar was elected a member of the executive council.
Knox is practically assured of having an Officer's Reserve Training Camp. More than 150 men immediately signed up for the organization.
Dean Blackmar Honored
The University of Washington, through its administration department has established a system of visiting nurses for the women of the schools. The object of this system it to supervise the health of the women students. All cases of illness—no matter how trivial—are to be reported and will be looked into by the nurse in charge.
Chancellor and Dean Find Value in Honor Plan for Examination
Healthy Student Sentiment to Enforce Honesty Necessary, Says Kelly
That the establishing of an honor system at the University would be a fine thing for the University if the students can handle the proposition and make the majority of individual students feel the responsibility of doing work is the opinion of Chancellor Ellerby and Dan F. J. Kelly.
In the opinion of Dean Kelly, the honor system should first be properly defined. "It is not honor in the true sense," he said, "if the other students make a business of tattling on the offender, but each should consider it his duty to treat others as he would have them treat him. Again, if one student is not honest with himself and others, the students, as a body, should take it upon themselves to chastise the offender."
Chancellor Strong would have the honor-system taught in the home. Children should not be encouraged or allowed to take advantage of their parents or playmates. The system would not be fair to the honest if the lishonest were not restrained by the healthy public sentiment.
The honor-system is a social problem and should not be confined to the advanced schools, he said, but should be started in the primary schools and developed with the progress of the person.
A meeting of the women of the University will be held this afternoon in Fraser Hall, under the auspices of the Y. W. C. A., to discuss the honor system.
Doctor Nelson President Of Kansas City Section Of Chemical Society
Professor Allen and Doctor Dains Also Officers of the Organization
Prof. C. Ferdinand Nelson, professor of physiological chemistry, was elected president of the Kansas City Section of the American Chemical Society, and Prof. H. C. Allen, professor chemistry, was elected secretary and treasurer, at a meeting held in Kansas City, December 21. Dr. F. B. Daine, professor of organic chemistry and Rudolph Hirsch of Kansas City were elected councillors. C. J. Patterson of the Ismer-Hincke Milling Co. of Kansas City was elected vice-president. C. F. Gustafson of Kansas City, was elected assistant secretary.
The American Chemical Society was established about fifty years ago and is now one of the largest societies in the world having a membership of about 10,000. The society publishes three journals, "The Journal of the American Chemical Society," "The Abstract Journal," and "The Journal of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry." There are twenty-five or thirty sections in different parts of the country. The Kansas City Section which meets alternately in Kansas City and Lawrence has about 175 members. The society is controlled by a Board of Councilors, two members being elected from each society.
The American Chemical Society has taken active part in war work. Three Germans who were honorary members of the society because of their prominence as chemists, Peter Norman, Email Fischer, and William Ouvray, did so. The society partly because they were enemies and mostly because they were the main instigators and experimenters of chemical warfare.
Graduate Club Plans Mixers and Lectures
The Graduate Club has made plans for a series of lectures to be given every third Friday in Westminster Hall. Chancellor Frank Strong will deliver the first lecture at 430, Dunlane Street for other meetings is as follows:
Tarman Singh, January 31.
A valentine party, February 14.
February 28, Dr. H. P. Cady.
March 14, Dean F. W. Blackmar.
The club held a business meeting at Thursday.
Popularity Contest Replaces Beauty Race For 1919 Jayhawker
Candidates May Be Nominated As For Class Election
Instead of the old Beauty Contest this year, the managers of the Jayhawkers, announced this morning that the contest would be a popularity contest and will be held as any class election, it will take place January 20. "There has been so much complaint about the way that the Beauty contest has been run," said Bob Lynn, manager of the contest, that the new plan has been adopted to eliminate all chance of graft."
The contest will start out new, today. All nominations for the popularity contest must be turned in to Mr. Lynn or Lynn Herschey by Tuesday night. The list of candidates will be announced in Wednesday night's Kansan. The candidates will be nominated by their friends and every one will be run who is nominee for the competition organizations on the Hill will be given an opportunity to select the candidate they want to run in the contest. The candidates for the beauty contest may run if they are nominated.
The names of the candidates will appear on the ballot as the class officers names appear on class ballots. The class officers must be for whom he or she wants to vote.
The Jayhawker sales force began its campaign with renewed energy this morning. Every one who intends to vote for his or her favorite candidate must have a receipt for the Jayhawker by January 19.
According to the new plan, the men who were in the student army training corps, but who have now withdrawn from school will not be eligible to attend, and they will not be allowed to give their votes to any one to cast for them.
According to the new plans, a list of the subscribers will be at the polls on election day, January 20. As his name will be marked off the list.
Every cent that has been invested by individuals for space in the Jayhawker will count for one vote. No organization picture will be counted and no vote can be cast on such pictures.
On the day of the election, two members of each of the student councils, faculty members and the management will be at the polls as election judges.
Actors Will Continue Play Try-Outs Tonight
The try-outs for the Dramatic Club play will be continued tonight at 8 p'clock in Green Hall and at 7:15 o'clock tomorrow night. The try-out tonight will be a first try-out and students who did not compete before will be admitted. The judges are Prof. Arthur MacMurray and Prof. Henry Shim of the department of public speaking, Florence Butler, secretary of the Dramatic Club, and Herman Hangen, manager of the play.
Enrollment this term of 1862 students was reported today by Registrar George O. Foster. Of these 1000 are in the College; 289 in the School of Engineers, 23 in the School of Pharmacy, 68 in the School of Medicine, 176 in the School of Education, 46 in the Graduate School, 50 in the School of Law, and 201 in the School of Fine Arts.
About seventy-five tried out for the east in the try-out Friday. All of these contestants and any other new contestants are asked to attend the try-out tonight.
Enrollment Now Totals 1862
The Kappa Sigma fraternity announces the pledging of Pete Gross, c'21, of Kansas City, Mo.
The University of Illinois will repeal all the elementary courses, this semester in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
Sixty-three instructors of the University of Washington have been called to serve as teachers at Camp Lewis.
Out of the S. A. T. C. moss hall may grow a "Commons" if the plans of President Chas. F. Thwing, of Western Reserve University, can be realized. "I have long been hoping for a place where Reserve men might eat together," said President Thwing.
"Electra" of Sophocles Dramatic Club Offering
"Electra" of Sophocles by twenty-five members of the Dramatic Club will be a notable event next spring," said Prof. Arthur MacMurray this morning. "Special costumes are being designed and special music for the occasion is being composed by Professor Skilton now. The press conference will mention that "Cusmus" last spring and the University campus is to be the stage."
"Cosmus was beautiful," said Professor MacMurray, who will have charge of the presentation, "but the Electra' will be even more beautiful. This is going to be absolutely one of the biggest things at K. U. next spring."
Plain Tales From the Hill
Here's the latest. Have you heard it?
My parents told me not to smoke, I don't.
Or listen to a naughty joke, I don't They make it clear, I mustn't wink
At pretty girls or even think About intoxicating drink, I don't.
To flirt or dance is very wrong, I
don't.
Wild youths chase women, wine and song. I don't.
song, I don't.
I kiss no girls, not even one,
I do not know how it is done,
I know what I think I have much fun,
Well—I don't.
Listen, fellers, to some inside dope!
When you take Her to the cafeteria to dinner. She doesn't know whether to take everything as she goes down the line or whether to go slow and skip a few. To relieve Her mind you might remark as you enter, "I'm starved, let's take everything on deck," or if you are not quite so flush, "nothing looks good, does it?" Chances are the will take you up.
For some time this question has been bothering some of the men on the Hill. At the present time which is the most popular, cooks, the business manager of the Jayhawker, or the guy that is running the beauty contest? In view of the number of dinner parties and other social affairs that have been given for the two managers and the Vault Fair manager by the candidates and their friends, it seems that these two men are even more in demand for the time being that the best cook on Mt. Oread.
The Lawrence Fire Department made a hurry-up run to one of the rooming houses on Tennessee street yesterday afternoon in answer to a (false alarm). One of the rooms, a women to be sure, saw steam rising from the roof and thought the house was on fire.
As a result of Saturday night's Varsity dance, several members of the student council are wrecks. At the very last minute, Haley failed to appear, and it was up to the W. S. G. A. to chase down some music. Every man or woman, at the dance, who even looked like he might play the piano was hailed, and at last a life saver was found who played until Haley arrived.
The philosophy student wandered into class and looked at the ice-covered windows.
In order to avoid all embarrassment which might follow Bill Perry, who celebrated the New Year's arrival in Kansas City, he left town under an assumed name in order to keep his real name out of the papers.
"Gee," said he, "Why don't they heat this class room? I never car sleep unless I'm comfortable."
When asked for his name for the city papers by the two society reporters who make the trains, he used the name of one of the upperclassmen, but he failed to be because he used the name of one of the celebrities on the Hill who happened to be well known by both reporters.
Faculty members and every one look alike to the police authorities in Lawrence during the stormy weather. The home of one of the professors in the department of journalism was visited Wednesday afternoon by one of the members of the Lawrence police force.
In preference of 'tellin' it to the judge at 8 o'clock tomorrow mornin' the "prot" immediately set to work scooping the snow off of his walks.
Read the Daily Kansan.
Dean Blackmar Urges Council of Defense To Give Up Job Soon
Believes State Should Return to Peace Basis As Soon As Possible
Work to Old Organizations
Advocates Large Appropriations For State Welfare Necessary in Future
That the State Council of Defense should cease to be an active working body in Kansas as soon as possible is the opinion of Dean F. W. Blackmar of the Graduate School at the University of Kansas, one of the members of the Council. Organized for strictly war purposes, it has been a success, Dean Blackmar believes, in promoting agriculture, in increasing the food supply, in handling labor questions, establishing Home Guards, or adding the American Protective League, the Food and Fuel Administrations and other phases of war work. Its chief service has been the creation of public opinion, and the fusion of knowledge about the war.
Dean Blackmar would not oppose the continuation of the council until the business for which it was organized is finished and he urges a small appropriation to cover expenditures for the last two years. The work of the council has been done by volunteers and unless an appropriation is made many members will have to pay certain necessary expenses from their own funds.
The work which has been done by the council during the war can be done in peace times by other state organizations: the State Board of Agriculture, the State Board of Agriculture Duluth-Lake County State Agricultural College, the University, the State Federation of Woman's Clubs, and others.
"Thetheoretically I could conceive of a Kansas Chamber of Commerce composed of men interested in the public business of the State which should be alert in promoting the public welfare along industrial economies and social lines," he says. "If such an organization could exist from a confederation and will large public spirit—which means sacri-fice—great good could be accomplished in the promotion and support of public institutions in Kansas."
"Just flow there is a campaign for good reads with a proposition of a bond issue of sixty millions of dollars. Perhaps a system of good roads at the present would do more to advance political, social, economical, educational and industrial interests in the State than any other achievement that could be named. It would be a great factor to develop real democracy.
"A sixty million bond issue by a State out of debt for the development of home democracy is not much compared to the millions of money and the thousands of lives spent for the promotion of democracy in Europe. I am glad to see Kansas beginning to talk in large figures. It did not know where it was until the war along and asked great thanks to it. While we pour out millions for Europe let us be willing to spend other millions in keeping Kansas on the map. True democracy begins at home."
"The people of the state should be united on such problems. Possibly a State Chamber of Commerce would do the work."
General Wood Invited To Speak at University
H. G. Ingham, secretary of the correspondence study department, telegraphed General Wood today asking the general to visit the University at his earliest convenience. It is hoped that General Wood can be here January 9, and talk to the university on that date.
Six Lieutenants Leave
Discharges for six lieutants who have been stationed here with the S. A. T. C. have arrived and took effect Monday. The officers are: Lieut. A. B. Cummings, Lieut. John B. Chapman, Lieut. Douglas, Lieut. Ben A. Dolea, Lieut. Min H. jj, and Lieut. Frederick E. Croxton. Several men left today.
The Kappa Sigma fraternity announces the pledging of William R. Casserly, e'22, of Lincoln.