UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOLUME XV.
K.U. Alumni Are Asked By County Club Union To Boost Income Bill
NUMBER 152.
Personal Letters and Literature Sent to Influential Members of Organization
Other States Are Examples
Voters Are Assured New Plat Will Promote Economy and Efficiency
The County Club Union under the management of "Jap" Glasco is sending out personal letters to influential alumni over the state asking them to bend every effort toward pushing the Permanent Income Amendment which will come before the people at the election next November. Each one who receives a letter is also sent a package of pamphlets on the subject, which he is asked to distribute.
The pamphlets, which are addressed to the voters of Kansas, say "The Permanent Income Amendment provides for a fixed limited income for the upkeep of the state schools. This limited income will be apportioned among the various state schools, and the schools will be able to work out plans to eliminate unnecessary expense. It is purely an efficient and a business proposition. It does not increase taxes—it reduces them.
"At present sixteen states have adopted the fixed limited income. In every instance the schools are run more efficiently and with less waste of money. The State Board of Administration, of which the governor of the state is chairman, will act as business manager under the fixed limited income plan, and will direct the expenditure of all money in the most efficient manner."
The appeal is made that the matter lies in the power of the University alumni who are the leaders and voters of the state and the passage of the amendment depends upon the efforts which they put forth.
Y.M.-Y.W. Give Mixer Last '18 Jollification
Lasts Hour and Half Saturday Night, so Students May Study Afterward
Entertainment has been arranged by the social committees of the two associations and an enjoyable hour and a half is promised. The mixer will close early so that students may go home and study afterwards. Light refreshments will be served.
"Dates are unnecessary at the mixer," said Dutch Wedell, secretary of the Y. M. C. A. "The mixer is for the entertainment of all students in the University and everyone is invited to attend."
All University students are invited to attend the last mixer of the year given by the Y. M. C. A. and the Y. W. C. A., starting at 8 o'clock Saturday night in Robinson Gymnasium. The purpose of the mixer is for students to make new friends and to meet old friends for the last time before going home for the summer.
Faculty Men to Make Commencement Talks
Fifteen Professors Will Speak at Ninety-four Kansas
Towns
The number of high school commencement addresses to be made by University faculty members this spring, has increased to 94. Last year the number was 87.
Fifteen professor will give the lectures. They are F. W. Blackmar, L. W. Burdick, H. L. Butler, G. H. Derry, C. A. Dykstra, F. R. Hamilton, E. M. Hopkins, H. G. Ingham, F. J. Kelly, W. A. McKeever, P. G. Mitchell, Arthur MacMurray, H. G. Nutt, Arvin Olin, and R. A. Schwegler. Chancellor Frank Strong will not make a commencement tour this spring because of time taken up with war work.
Surgical Dressings Work Ends
The surgical dressings room will be closed for the remainder of the term. It will be opened again probably June 10, when a class in the making of surgical dressings, with the course leading to a Red Cross certificate, will be held during the summer term.
Laws Dig Answers For State Bar Exams
Far into the morning many men sit in a circle haze of smoke and talk steadily, and at times wildly in a certain house on Tennessee street. The mortality rate was high last night and at 3:50 o'clock only six of the most faithful remained.
The council is not a Pro-German association nor a collection of patriotic scientists conceiving a secret compound for the devastation of the Hohenzollern House. It is merely the senior laws, who rise early in the morning and work through the morning and the noon and the night hours; they work for the State Bar Examination is coming, after which a law works no more.
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS, FRIDAY AFTERNOON, MAY 17, 1918.
The brotherhood sits in a circle--4 brother propounds a question. Since no one knows the answer they look it up. Another question comes from the long list of priceless gems handed down from the quizzes of bright profs. Better luck this time. There is a chorus of answers; violent disagreement, and broiling hot discussion, during which an assembled brother casts aside an eye shade, or takes off another shoe; or discards his unnecessary, if ornamental necktie.
What one knows they will all know. The State Bar Association is going to accept or reject them as a body for differentiation will be impossible
The War
Here and Over There
Officials believe that between three and four million men will be placed under arms in the next year in the United States. Although no definite promises are made, it is calculated that a million and a half men will be in France by January 1.
Italian forces have begun an offensive against the Austrian and German lines, and the enemy are reported to be holding their positions with difficulty.
The first unit of women farmers will sail for France for work in the Alsei district, where large tracts of land have been placed in the hands of the American committee for devastated France. Women in this unit must be over 25 years old, must have practical or college experience in agriculture, must speak French, and must be able to pay their own expenses.
The bill providing for the registration in the draft of men who have become 21 years old since last June 5, has been sent to the President for his approval. The new registrants would be placed at the last of the list in the class in which they were placed. Students in medical and theological schools would be exempt.
A new type of army uniform uses third of a yard less of material than the old style and means a saving of $20,000,000 a year for 2,500,000 men.
K. U. Asked to Help County Liberty Flag
The flag has been given to the county by the Merchants National Bank of Lawrence. The honor roll will be published in the papers and posted in the court house. The $2 contributions may be paid at any bank.
Fair One—I'm afraid these Louis XV heels are too high for me. Perhaps you have lower ones—say about Louis X. Orange Peel.
Students, members of the faculty and employees have been invited to put their names on an honor roll of residents of Douglas County who are contributing to the Red Cross Fund, $2 each, in connection with the presentation to the county of a fine Liberty flag that will be displayed from the county court house.
Student Fine Arts Recital
Mary Gossard and Mildred in tinnell,
students to be graduated from Friars' Art,
from their graduation in Art, will
their graduating recital in Fraser
Chapel tonight starting at 8:15
o'clock.
She—And I love you, dear, because you are so frank and truthful—Jack o'Lantern.
He-I love you because you are the sweetest girl in the world.
No amount is too small to LEND TO YOUR COUNTRY. Buy War-Savings Stamps
Student Fine Arts Recital
Government Will Train 250 Draft Army Men At K.U. This Summer
All Courses Except Automobile
Work Will Be Given By
K. U. Instructors
"The government now plans," said Dean G. C. Shaad of the School of Engineering, this morning, "to send 250 drafted men to the University for special training."
The men are to be here on June 15. The previous plans had been to send 160 drafted men here on June 1.
The biggest part of the training of the men will take place in Fowler Shops. It is probable that the instructors in Automobile work, will come from outside of the University, but most of the work will, according to Dean Shaad, be done by instructors from the Hill. It is planned to train 100 chauffeurs, 60 radio operators, 40 telegraph operators, 20 blacksmith, 18 carpenters, and 12 concrete workers.
The men will be under the command of an army officer, and will be under military discipline time. It is in the quarter and quarter the men in Robinson Gymnasium.
K. C. Mayor Will Talk Here For Red Cross At Monday Assembly
Beardlsly to Help Committee Raise University Quota Of Pledges
Henry M. Beardsley, former mayor of Kansas City, Mo., is giving the week of May 20-27 to the service of the Red Cross in connection with the second Red Cross War Fund Campaign. He will speak at an all-University convocation on Monday morning at 10 o'clock.
The University's quota is not large, compared with what the school has done on previous campaigns, but the week is coming late in the school year and the committee in charge of the University needs the complete cooperation of the students and faculty to carry out the task assigned to it. The committee requests that every student contribute to the Red Cross campaign on hour in time by attending the all-University lecture at 10 o'clock, for the address of Mr. Beardsly.
Liberty Flag With Honor Roll Will Be Kept As Re-
$35 For War Bride's Cake
"We would like to see the name of every K. U. student on this roll of honor," said Mnager J. R. Holmes today. "Women at the University will take all contributions. We expect each sorority and fraternity to at least $10. We ought to raise $2,000 from the flag alone."
Students are asked to come prepared to make a contribution at the close of the address, payment to accompany the pledge, if possible. Checks are to be made payable to the Second Red Cross War Fund. The University subscription is fixed at one-tenth of one per cent of tax valuation of the individual's property, plus one-tenth of one per cent of what is considered his yearly allowance.
The Douglas County Liberty Flag will be unfurled at 4 o'clock Saturday afternoon by the Red Cross Auction. An honor roll of donors will be presented with the flag and filed in the county records.
authorized to sell.
An old ox yoke was sold and resold
until it totaled $141. This yoke will
be labeled with the amount it sold
for here and sent to St. Mary's, Kan,
where it will be auctioned off again.
Last night a "War Bride Cake" was auctioned off for $35.05. This was baked by Mrs. Cell Francisco Todd, the wife of a former K. U. student, who is now in France. It was sold a number of times and then the pieces auctioned off.
the auction will open Saturday at 10 o'clock, and close for one hour at noon. There will be a jig dance by L. N. Purdy, a former University student. Saturday morning.
Volume of 75 Poems By Willard Wattles Is To Be Published
"Many articles of interest to students will be sold Saturday," said one manager of the sale. "We have a large amount of stationery, toilet articles and desk sets."
Poet Has Tried to Find Simple Truths Common to All Religions
Religions
"Lanters For Getthemane," a book of seventy-five poems by Willard Wattles has been accepted for publication by E. P. Dutton & Company of New York, and will be published probably during the summer. It is the first poem published by Mr. Wattles entirely of his own authorship, and represents work of nine years. The first poem in the book was written in 1009 when he was a senior in the University.
WATTLES CALLED IN SERVICE Mr. Wattles has been placed on a tentative list of Douglas County registrants, part of whom will go into service between May 25 and 11 when he has delayed going into service because he wanted to get this volume of records into the hands of a publisher.
A commission as first lieutenant in the signal corps was open for him last summer, but he refused it in order to finish the series of poems. He was rejected from the navy radio service in an examination at Kansas City recently because of weak eyes. Hermann Hagemedorn of New York will take charge of all Mr. Wattles' writings while he is in the service.
"My friends and students have written this," said Mr. Wattles in speaking of his new work. "It is what I know of them that has gone into the book."
RELIGIOUS POEMS IN BOOK
"Lanterns For Gethsemane" is made up of mystical religious poems, and is characterized by the author as being the real work which he has tried to do. It grew out of reading, as a boy, Charles M. Sheldon's book, "In His Steps," and was strengthened by the idea of William Herbert Carruth's poem, "Each in His Own Tongue," according to Mr. Wattles.
In preparing the book, Mr. Wattles said, he must attempting to find one fundamental truth which all religions hold in common, with special reference to the contribution of Christ to these truths. It is an attempt to learn what Jesus would do when facing modern conditions. The poet brings out the idea of the manhood of Jesus and expresses his idea of what kind of a man He was.
SERIES HAS BEEN TESTED
This series has been tested not only among the critics," he wrote in the November, 1917, issue of Contemporary Verse, "but more certainly among the people, young men and women, mothers, business men and衣ed theists, devout men, and with whom no Person belonging to a given sect will like them all, yet there is no poem which has not been loved by some one; that is the only evidence I have desired."
HALF OF POEMS HAVE APPEARED More than half the poems in "Lanterns For Gethsemane" have been printed in magazines, the Outlook, Independent, Chicago Poetry, Contemporary Verse, Smart Set, and Christian Register. E. P. Dutton & Company accepted it because it was connected with the idea in "Under Fire" and "A Student in Arms," although not touching the war as directly as they do.
Students of Westport high school will present a Spanish comedy, "Los Castillos de Torres Nobles," here Saturday night.
Westport High School Will Give Spanish Play
Mr. Wattles' first poem appeared in the Independent in 1911. In the same year he with Harry Kemp and others compiled the volume, "Songs From the Hill." "Sunflowers, a Book of Kansas Poems," written by about thirty persons, was collected by Mr. Wattles and published first in 1914. The third edition of this work appeared this winter.
The play is given by a cast of fifteen, members of Circulo Calderon, the Spanish club of Westport high school. It was given in Kansas City last week.
The play will be presented in the Little Theater in Green Hall Saturday night at 7:30 o'clock. There is no admission charge, and all persons interested in Spanish are invited to attend.
A Tale of How K. U.'s Political Card Passed
No longer will posters, cards, and doodlers of K. U. politicians of squirrel prints of political enemies adorn the walks and approaches to the campus. The University Senate, it has been officially announced, at its last meeting passed a rule forbidding the display of any form of advertising bills or cards except on the regular bulletin boards of the campus.
It is not known whether the ruling was passed to save the raw-edged nerves of the superintendent of buildings and grounds or merely to cut down expense of office seekers who have to pay for removing the bills from the sidewalks.
Plain Tales From The Hill
Mean Mentionings
Regular veni-vidi-vici expressions on their faces the Cornhuskers struck town today. But nobody looked scared. Nobody expressed any intention to see slaughter on MeCook Field There's another crop of corn growing back in Nebraska.
Some athletic athletes will play tennis again Saturday. One I love, two I love, and so on, cheers from the serried rows of loyal thundersters in response to gyrations after megaphonic pleading—then victory. Ah, victory's sweet—in tennis. Heroes all!
Final exams due one week hence: sororites and fraternities are booked to capacity with faculty susceptibles bid to Sunday dinners.
Six days a week. Six days a week
Six days a week. Six days a week
Six days a week. Six days a week
Now are you sore?
One course meals strictly hereafter, per order Sinai and commanded engraved on the bulletin monument. Golden calves tabu.
The Men's Student Council wants to dance and will welcome all available guests at $1.10 per. Everybody satisfied. Everybody looking for the M. S. C. watch-fobs. The dances are to cost $1.50 next year. Better go now.
(——) This one did not have enough "spice" in it, according to the committee on "wise" rejection, and they decided not to print it.
A Smallier One
They were in Spanish class. He was trying to make conversation.
He—What are you looking so sour about?
She—(Just after being called on to recite)—I was thinking at a pickle I was in when he called on me.
Old Roman Peculiarities Those old Romans must have been peculiar gang.
Every day the class in Roman History learns something that strengthens the belief. Today we ascertained that Cato never kissed his wife unless it thundered, and that the famous Augustus never talked about previously having compiled a set of notes on what he intended to say.
The lecturer offered no explanation of the first surprising fact, but advanced the theory that maybe Augustus' idea was to take some precaution against getting the worst of the argument.
Special Speaker At Trinity The Rev. Paul Micou, of New York City, secretary of the new Board of Religious Education of the Episcopal Church, formerly secretary of the students' department of the International Y. M. C. A. committee, will conduct the services at Trinity Episcopal Church, Sunday at 11 o'clock.
Work Started On Fowler Shops
Work was begun on the temporary reconstruction of Fowler Shops this morning. The work will be carried on with all possible speed and it is confidently expected that the building will be ready for the enlisted men June 1. The first work to be done was the clearing away of half burned and useless parts.
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FRANK STRONG, Chancellor
A convocation is announced for Monday, May 20, at 10 o'clock, in Robinson Gymnasium. Henry M. Beardley, Mayor of Kansas City, Kan., will speak.
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Secret Late Session Is Held by Committee On Military Affairs
Important Conclusions Reached Which Cannot Be Given Out Yet
Plattsburg Scholarship Up?
Now
Several Recommendations to be Handed Senate for Action
In session extraordinary until a late hour last night, the members bound not to divulge proceedings prematurely, the University committee on military affairs discussed and settled some vital considerations which will be released for publication only after it has been made to higher authority.
The application of the University for a government establishment of an R. O. T. C. here gave rise to many problems of local adjustment that will come when the government makes its decision. Those questions were through investigation and the opinion of the committee went on record.
What these immediate questions of adjustment were and what recommendations to the Senate have been given by the committee in answer to them are still matters of conjecture, but one is certain to be the extent to the corps and details of military discipline under the new order.
There is also to be settled the destination of a K. U. undergraduate who will be given a scholarship to the Junior Camp at Plattsburg this summer. But it is not known whether this business came up at last night's long committee meeting.
Col. Briggs Issues Orders
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Drill Delinquents Make up Five Units Next Week; Others Excused Today
Orders from the commandant's office of the K. U. regiment this morning said all men with no unexcused absences, were to stop regular drill today. Opportunity will be given, according to second order, to delinquents to make up five units in five days. May 20 to May 25 inclusive.
Today officers will report to the commandant to receive commissions, and enlisted men will be given on application, certificates of good and faithful services, next week.
Kansas Will Enter Two
At Chicago Track Meet
At tase two men will be sent to the Western Conference track meet at Chicago, Ill., May 8, to represent the University of Kansas, Coach W. O. Hamilton announced today. Carl Rice, the stellar high jumper of the Jayhawker track squad this season, and Marshall Haddock, dash and weight star, will be entered in this classical meet of the Middle West which is held every year early in June. Besides these two, Coach Hamilton expects to take Paul Murphy, the veter半乳-miler of the K. U. team this season, if Murphy shows the speed he is capable of in the two remaining meets before the Western Conference meet.
Rice and Haddock Already Slated to Go—Murphy Also May Be on Team
Rice has been doing 6 feet consistently in meet this year and many K. U. fans expect him to establish a new record for the Missouri Valley by jumping 6 feet 2 inches. Haddock won third place in the pentathlon in the Penn Relay games at Philadelphia, Pa., this spring and has been doing remarkable work in the 220-yard dash and the discus throw. He is also a fast 100-yard dash man.
Zoology Club Elects Officers
Zoology Club met last night and held election for the coming year. The officers are as follows: Mary Larson, president; Dr. W. R. Robertson, vice president; Pauline Kimball, secretary-treasurer.
Woman's Glee Club will sing at the convocation Monday. All members of the Glee Club should report at the Gymnasium at 9:50.