UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOLUME XVI.
NUMBER 49
President of Council Explains Delayed Call For Student Elections
Washington Expresses Hope for Voting On or Before January 17
Class Lists Are Necessary
Rolls Cannot Be Completed If Less Than Two Weeks, Says Registrar
A reply to the editorial in last night's Daily Kansan, was issued today by Herschel Washington, president of the Men's Student Council, giving reasons for not setting the date for council and class elections.
In his communication, President Washington indicates the desire of the council to have the elections held on or before the date provided for such elections, namely on the Friday of the third week of the first semester. Mr. Washington would consider this the first semester of the collegiate year, and the date for the election would accordingly be January 17. He says official lists of the members of the various classes are necessary before elections can be held, and Registrar George O. Foster said today such lists could not be compiled in less than two weeks.
President Washington's statement follows:
"The Student Council is of the opinion that the present quarter should be considered as if it were the beginning of the school year. Inasmuch as the election rules specify just what time the elections should be held, they would be held, if the old order of things were adhered to, at that particular time. However, the council hopes that class lists may be obtained from the registrar, which are absolutely necessary, for holding the election, before that time and it will thus be possible that the election be held earlier in the period than usual. The latest date at which petitions can be handed in will be announced not later than next Tuesday.
"The writer of yesterday's editorial in The Daily Kansan was evidently ignorant of all the facts in the case and could have avoided unnecessary criticism by interviewing any member of the council."
"It is impossible to tell just when the lists from the registrar's office will be ready for election use." said Registrar Foster this morning. "The transfer of men from the S. A. T. C. makes the work more difficult than usual, but it now seems apparent that these lists cannot be ready before two weeks."
Irrigation Development Would Help Soldiers
Five Million Acres Could B Watered from Wells, Says Professor Haworth
Governor Arthur Capper, in view of the fact that many of the soldiers returning from France will be without employment, has written Prof. Erasmus Haworth of the department of Geology in regard to the number of acres of land in western Kansas that would be available through irrigation for farm use. Professor Haworth in his reply to the governor made the statement that there were 5,000,000 acres that could be irrigated with water obtained at a depth of seventy-five feet.
Professor Haworth has been working on the underground water facilities of Western Kansas since 1897, and was instrumental in bringing in the large wells at Newton and Norton.
According to Professor Haworth, a movement is now on foot to form county organizations to aid the State Council of Defense in their work of obtaining employment. Mr. Prifolli, a Principal representative to the legislature from Fayette county was in Lawrence December 17, and forming an organization here.
An important mass meeting of the women students of the University will be held Monday, January 6, at 4:30 o'clock in Fraser Chapel. All women students of the University are urged to attend.
Frank Strong,
Chancellor
Sixteen Degrees Below
Says Weather Station
Sixteen degrees below, and the coldest morning of the winter, was the verdict of the University weather station according to the reading at 7 o'clock this morning, and this was also the minimum reading for the night.
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS; FRIDAY AFTERNOON, JANUARY 3, 1919.
The records show this to be the coldest temperature since January 12 1918, when the minimum was seventeen degrees below. During the storm on Christmas week the mercury read two below. Both Wednesday and Tuesday nights were colder than at any time in December, December's lowest temperature being two degrees below. On Wednesday night was seen, and Tuesday three below. It was only two above at 7 o'clock Thursday night, and the temperature at its highest reading Thursday was ten above.
The snowfall last week amounted to seven inches and a little more than two inches was added this week.
Must Pay One Dollar For Tardy Enrollment
Students Entering Classes Must Produce Receipts Received At Business Office
All students who have enrolled later than Monday and all those who enroll Saturday must pay the dollar required for late enrollment or be withdrawn immediately from their classes according to Dean D. L. Patterson of the College.
"Each student is urged to get his receipt first in order to avoid loss of time in enrolling tomorrow," Dean Patterson said.
The dollar must be paid to Kari Klooz at the University Business Office in Fraser Hall, and the receipts must be presented to the advisors before enrollment will be permitted.
It is a University ruling that all students must pay a dollar if they enroll late and this requirement will be upheld in all schools of the University.
Late enrolments will be made
saturday morning from 9 to 12 o'clock
n the following offices:
Freshmen, Fraser 104; Sophomore men, Fraser 303; Juniors, Ad., 204; seniors, Fraser, 202; Specials, Fraser 94. Sophomore women will be enclosed in Room 304 Fraser Hall.
H. Ekonomixers Give Tea To Miss Sibyl Woodruff
Miss Bibl Woodruff, formerly an instructor in the department of home economics, spent the Christmas vacation visiting friends in Lawrence.
Misa Woodruff is now working for her master's degree at Chicago University. She is teaching preparation of foods in the school of education and is taking ten hours besides Early Childhood as she Woodruff conducts at the municipal kitchen on Michigan Avenue, Chicago.
Members of the department of home economics gave a tea for Miss Wood-duff at the cafeteria New Year's afternoon.
No Bryan Essay Prize This Year
No prize will be awarded this year
in the William J. Bryan Essay Cont-
cept, because this is the off year, said
Prof F. H. Buckley, the secretary biennial, and is the income from a fund given by the former secretary of state. Last year's winner was Edward Mason.
Sophomore Penalized for Cheat A sophomore in the School of Engineering has been found guilty by the Disciplinary Committee for dishonest work in the final examination last quarter in Physics 1E. He was given a failure in the course and penalized by being required to take three extra hours of work.
Catalogue to be printed
The annual catalog for 1918-1918 is being compiled and Registrar George O. Foster said today he expected to have the copy in the hands of the state printer some time this month. He expects to have the books printed in time to be sent to the state high schools before they close in the spring.
Catalogue to be Printed Early
Nearly one thousand alumni of Western Reserve University saw service in the war, and nearly half this number were commissioned officers. Among the alumni in war service were Secretary of War Baker, and Myron T. Herrick, former ambassador to France.
No Student Directory To Be Issued This Year Say K. U. Authorities
Changes in Rooming Places And Unsettled Conditions Pre- rent Book
vent Book
No student directory \ ill be issued this year, unless University authorities change their minds suddenly, Registrar George O. Foster announced this morning after a conference with Chancellor Strong.
It was felt that it would not be wise to issue a directory t is year because of generally unsatisfied conditions and because of so many changes in students' rooming places. The students almost entirely and most of the faculty members are in favor of having the University publish the directory even if many changes have been made because it would list this year's students and could be used next year as well. The directory is sued in 1946 is still being used by or organizations and students.
Many propositions have been made by different student organizations to publish a student directory and sell it either at cost or at a slight profit for the benefit of the organization but University authorities do not consider private publication desirable. They feel that it should be left in the hands of the school for the benefit of the general student body.
The Woman's Pan-Hellenic, the W. S. G. A. and the Kansan Board have considered publishing a student directory at one time or another during the two years the University has been without one.
Read the Daily Kansan.
Prof. W. H. Johnson Plans New Church Bulletins
Century Sermonnettes to Be Feature of Weekly Paper of Presbyterians
Century Sermonettes, little 100-word sermons by lay members of the congregation, will be the features of a new kind of church bulletin that Prof. W. II. Johnson of the School of Education is to get out weekly for the First Presbyterian Church, of which he is a member. Each number of the bulletin is to contain one Century Sermonette by some member of the congregation who will be expected to use one hundred words of helpfulness, inspiration or cheerfulness from his own every-day-life experiences.
The Ohio conference of charities and Corrections held its annual sessions at Ohio State University Christmas week.
Dean E. A. Birge of the College of letters and science at the University of Wisconsin is acting president of the University since the death of Pres. C. R. Van Hise. The Board of Regents is considering the matter of selecting a president.
The bulletin is to be used the usual Sunday service program, the announcements and a directory of the officers of the church. It will not contain the customary platitudes and vague generalizations, mildly exercising everybody not to forget the heathen and be sure to be good. Indeed, the bulletin will leave the preaching to the pastor and will strive to awaken keener interest and cease ination in the whole congregation by news paragraphs of the church and its members.
Lieut. Harold Hall has returned from the University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, where he was a lieutenant in the S. A. T. C. He expects to enroll in the university this term. Lieutenant Hall is a member of Bata Theta Pi, Delta Sigma Rho, and Kansas Board.
Church bulletins usually are in the form of a folder of four small pages and with the first page given over almost entirely to ornamental job printing. Under Professor Johnson's plans the cover will come down to a few short lines as to title and will contain on the first page paragraphs about church folks and things that church folks are interested in.
Apparently the proposed bulletin is a new idea worth developing, for, except the program of services and one or two announcements, the average church bulletin is most excellently qualified for membership in the Society of Useless Publications.
Lieut. Harold Hall Returns
Good Books Shelved For Lack of Binding By Busy State Printer
Reference Books Could Be In Use if K. U. Had Its Own
Bindery
There are 110,000 books and 44,000 pamphlets on the shelves of Spooner Library that are useless because they are not bound and can hardly be used until they are put in secure bindings so they can be safely handled. Almost all these volumes would be very valuable to students for research work if they were bound, put on the shelves and cataloged, say faculty members, but they are of no benefit to any one now because the state printer apparently has not time to bind them.
There is a state regulation which requires that all printing to be done for the colleges and universities of the state must be sent to the state printer. When this regulation was made it was said the state printer could do the work more cheaply than any one else. However, the state printer at that time was working on a commission, and therefore made more money by doing all the printing for the state schools. Now, however, for the state schools. Now, however, ary and has more work than he can get done, and most of the work that should be done for the University is not being done. If this regulation were removed the University could establish a bindery of its own, say library workers, and the work could be done here and finished so that it would be ready for use when it was needed and not several months later, if at all.
Blackfriars Make Plans For Staging Spring Play
Club to Reorganize Wednesday Night When First Meeting Will Be Held
The Blackfriars will reorganize Wednesday night at its first meeting of the year and will complete plans for an extended field of work for 1919.
When the club was organized two years ago, its aim was the presentation of early English plays in a manner as close as possible to that in which they were originally given the opportunity to play on that year. Last year "Riders to the Sea" and "A Pot of Broth" were presented.
This year the club plans to give a play late in the spring, and to work at its regular meetings. It will study various aspects of the drama.
The meeting will be in Room 215,
Fraser Hall, Wednesday at 7:30
o'clock, and all upperclassmen, grad-
uate students and staff are interested
in the work are invited.
V. S. Rader, c17, previously reported missing in action, has been reported killed in action November. Mr. Rader was a brother-in-law of Mrs. Ralph Rader, instructor in the department of chemistry. His home was in Wakefield.
Comforts For Patrons
Placed at Cafeteria
Rest Room Will Be Made a Commons Where All May
Several rocking chairs, a reading table and the accompanying reading materials are to be found around the fire place at the cafeteria for the convenience of patrons. It is hoped the place will be used as a resting place in a commissary, so that the University other gathering place for students.
The cafeteria is a student enterprise and its success will largely depend on the goodwill of its student and faculty patrons.
More than 300 persons have been served every day this week but larger rows can be handled.
Gather
She University of Nebraska is establishing a Reserve Officers' Training Corps to replace the disbanded S. A. T. C.
Editors of the Nebraska annual, the Cornhusker, are asking for freshman assistants, urging that the new students begin early to train for editorships on the publication in their junior year.
Three Courses Offered In School of Religion
The School of Religion, which has been conducted for a number of years by the University pastors, will be reopened next Thursday, with session each Thursday evening for ten weeks at Myers Hall, Westminster Hall, and at the Congregational Church parsonage. Class meetings will be from 7 until 8 o'clock.
The courses will be as follows:
"The Messages of the Prophets or
the Life of Christ," by Dr. Arthur
Braden, at Myers Hall.
"An Introduction to the Study of the Bible," by Dr. R. W. Sanderson, at the Congregational parsonage, Twelfth and Ohio Streets.
Plain Tales From the Hill
"Ten Studies in Fundamental Christian Convictions," by Dr. F. G. Dill Westminster Hall.
That Spooner Library is known as a "joint" to certain of the head librarians, was recently disclosed to members of the student body. Not only that, it is also known that one of the librarians lost thirty pounds of candy on a bet. Of course it is all right for the library force to bet—but to bet and lose is a different thing. Especially when the bet is on a sure thing.
Weak hearts often result after a severe attack of the Spanish influenza, according to the physicians of the country. Perhaps this can account for the numerous engagements and cases that have become so prevalent on Mt. Oread since the opening of school in October.
Men students who are addicted to the habit of peeking in at the windows at the various sorority houses should remember that foot prints are left in the snow.
Just as soon as a reporter begins in the department of journalism he is instructed to begin every story with the most important fact. A cub was given the assignment to cover the fire at the Sigma Nu house. When the story was turned in it began, "Because one of the Sigma Nus went to his room to study, the fire was discovered."
With the drop in temperature and the shortage of gas at all the eating places, the professors on the Hill were forced to listen to the old stall from all the late arrivals in their classes about having to wait for breakfast.
Announcements
First try-outs for the Dramatic Club play will be held this afternoon at 4:00 o'clock in Green Hall. They will not be continued Saturday morning as previously announced, but will be continued next Monday at 8 o'clock
The Home Economics Club will have its picture taken Saturday at 10 o'clock at Squires' Studio. All members, whether initiated or not, are to be present.
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.
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 an Sunday. Office hours in the afterschools and Saturday will be by appointment.
Miss Sally Slaughter of Toneka was the guest of Augusta Taylor, c'21. at the Alpha Chi Omega house Thursday.
The Women's Student Government Association will give a Varsity dance at Fraternal Aid Union Hall, Saturday night.
Enrollment Saturday
Students who have not enrolled or who are obliged to make changes in enrollment may do so Saturday, January 4. from 9 to 12 o'clock A. M. in the following offices:
Freshmen, Fraser 104; Sophomore men, Fraser 303; Juniors, Ad. 204; Seniors, Fraser 202; Specials, Fraser 204.
Sophomore women, Fraser Room 304.
Cook Crises Hit Frats When Chefs of S.A.T.C Ask Army Mess Wages
Diana of the Dishpan Now so Affluent She Quits Work
Greek Steals Greek's Cook
Phi Psis Said to Have Tried to Bribe Sorority House Waiter
Whether it is true that the Beta are trying to bribe the Theta dishwasher or that the Thetas plan to kidnap the Beta cook, the kitchen crisis among student house organizations has become acute. Fraternities, sororites and boarding houses are having extreme difficulty maintaining competent kitchen personnel. The condition is said to be still another hardship resulting from the late and unlamented S. A. T. C., where cooks were paid $2 a week.
Gamma Phi Beta has been eating at the University cafeteria several days since the house cook calmly announced that she guessed she'd quit until a thaw. The hill was too steen to climb while the snow was on the ground, she said. All appeals could not change this resolution, so while the sorority steward and house committee are examining possible applicants for the job and trying to pick one who will stick, the sisters collectively and singularly breakfast, lunch and dine outside.
SITUATION WAS GRAVE
At the Kappa a faithful cook broke her ankle. The place was held open for her but the injury mended so slowly the cook decided she would take a long vacation. The sisterhood of the golden key dish greeted the situation until they tried to replace her with a cook of the same quality.
Acacia had four cooks in one week before finding one who could handle the job. At the Sigma Chi house the dear old brothers all came back to a cookess house and for a day or two had to take chow with Mister Lee or Friend Brick or the cafeteria. The Kappa筷 kitchen held several days while cookie and assistants were joyous in K C.
THE PLOTTING PHI PSIS
At the Alemannia house, where pure Castilian has taken the place of gutteral Hunees, they tell a cook tale as long as an undertaker's bill. They sure have had their kitchen cares at that house. One sorority says the Phi Psi have tried to steal their waiter.
As an indication of cook scarcity since the S. A. T. C. disbanded and the frat houses began opening a blond beauty from Sigma Nu, who was calling at a sorority house heard the following half of a telephone conversation when that sorority house was seeking a cook:
"Our cook has quit and we understand you want such a place. Would you care to come up on app see us. We would be nice to see the face and would be quite comfortable."
“Oh, no we didn't have a fuss with her. She just quit.”
"No. She said she didn't have to work. That she had enough money to rest a year or two.
"What kind of a disposition has our mother?" Why the idea? She's perfectly sure.
"What, you want $22 a week?"
You're crazy.
"Well, you may have been paid that in the S. A. T. C., but this is no army. You know—
"No, you are unreasonable. You had to cook for a hundred and fifty or two hundred men in barnracks. Here you would have to cook for twenty-five women. You wouldn't have a third the work."
Sororites and fraternities say the foregoing is typical. They say, too, that as soon as the army pay affluence has disappeared there will be a full supply of cooks again. Meanwhile the faculty families, those faculty families depending entirely on their salaries, have become so accustomed to do without help that they never expect to have even a bowing acquaintance with a cook person again.
Prof. W. J. Bamgartner will make first of a series of lectures for the Senior Christian Endeavors Society of the First Presbyterian Church next Sunday evening at 6:45 c'clock.
Read the Daily Kansan.