UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
NUMBER 42
VOLUME XIV.
SUCCESS IS EASY SAYS ED. HOWE
Edison's Achievements Are Due to His Selfishness He Thinks
ORATORY LOSING GROUND
Newspapers Replace Speeches He Declares—Lecture Was Humorous
"College audiences are hard to entertain because public speaking and oratory are becoming tiresome," said E. W. Howe, hage of Potato Hill, in his lecture in Fraser Chapel yesterday afternoon. "People are no longer content to sit through a drawn-out speech, oftentimes without a point, and this form is often the reason." The reason cited by Mr. Howey, is that one can sit at home by the fireside, and read and enjoy his paper and criticize the editor.
GENIUS UNNECESSARY
GENUS *NEEDED*
Mr.owe's talk was mostly humorous, but contained many serious points which he emphasized with short stories.
"Success in life is easier than failure," he pointed out. "The high ease of success is the state is the result of many hard knocks, but not as hard as those received by the man who fails. And the same truths apply to journalism as
Mr. Howe said that genius is not necessary for success; that the common people have as great a chance to make good as anyone; and that the man who is patient, kind, energetic, efficient and industrious rarely fails, while he is vicious, dull, listless, and inefficient never succeeds.
"The man who is selfish," said Mr. Howe, "will never be a drankard, a liar or a failure; he can't afford it. Thomas Edison is a selfish man, but no one can dispute the big things he has accomplished."
According to Mr. Howe, there is too much abuse among newspapers. One editor is continually hitting at his competitor. "I know more worthless newspapers than good ones," he said, "and all these must be successful."
A NEWSPAPERMAN AT NINE
Mr. Howe began his newspaper career as a teacher and related several amusing incidents which hefell him during that time.
"The first thing in life is to be as good men and women as possible; the first thing in newspaper work is to be as good an editor as possible."
Mr. Howe was accompanied to Lawrence by his two nieces, Mrs. Will Shelly and Miss Adelaide Howe, and Miss Nellie Trebb of the Atchison School in Lawrence. Lawrence and her Lawrence in the afternoon and returned directly after the lecture.
SENIORS TO SELECT GIFT
Enlarged Memorial Committee to Begin Work
Work on the senior memorial gift will be started next week when Chairman Jap Glassco will announce additional appointments to the memorial service. The memittee is composed of Vernon Moore, Vera Blackburn, William J. Crowley, John W. Johnson, Walter Priest, Olin Darby, Lucie Blackfan, and Marie Dent. It was though adversely to appear that work might be done more thoroughly.
At present there is sixty dollars in the memorial fund of the class. This fund represents the money the class has collected for the purpose of giving to the University. The money is in the hands of Registrar Geo, O. Foster.
"The gift which the senior class gives to the school will be presented before the class of '16 leaves the University," said Mr. Glasco this morning, "andademors of the gift we have an opportunity to see what they are giving."
Aggies Pay to See Medics
Aggies Pay to See Medics It was too good to keep so the medics had to pack up and depart upon the greediness of the Aggie visitors a week ago Saturday. The medies were forced to hold class in the basement of the museum that morning and before starting their work they placed a small box at the entrance door with a big sign, "Admission Only." In lieu of the box at noon they discovered forty-three jintneys, which had been contributed by the Aggie visitors.
Math Faculty to Topeka
Math. Faculty to Topeka The Kansas section of the Mathematics Association on Friday, November 20, at the time of the State Teachers' Meeting. Solomon Lefschetz, of the department of mathematics, is one of the members of the committee in charge of the work of the department of mathematics are planning to attend the meeting.
NATIVE ARMENIAN SPEAKS
NATIVE ARMENIAN SPEAKS
AT Y. M. MEETING TONIGHT
Nazareth Boyajian, a native of Armenia, will be the principal speaker at the regular weekly meeting of the Y. M. C. A. in Myers Hall tonight. Mr. Boyajian is a graduate of Euphrates college in Asia and is at the present time a student in the School of Law.
When the present European war began, Mr. Boyajian was in this country. He returned to Armenia and there saw many of the Turkish atrocities inflicted upon his Armenian people.
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS, TUESDAY AFTERNOON, NOVEMBER 7, 1916.
NAME CAST FOR "A FULL HOUSE"
The cast of the fifty-dollar-royalty play, "A Full House," to be presented by the Dramatic Club at the Bowersock, December 11, was announced in a memoir by Mr Murray, of the department of public speaking, of the cast follows:
Rehearsals Have Begun for Annual Dramatic Club
Play
Parks, Otto Dittmer.
Susie, Olain Plank.
Dyke, Dykes.
Mist Winemaker, Cecile Burton.
Daphne Charters, Helen Clark.
Nicholas King, Alton Gumbiner.
Ned Pembroke, Walter Hawkewen
George Howell, Frank McFarland.
Dougherty, Lewis Hull.
Jim Mooney, David Brown.
Kearney, Robert Robinson.
Erik Makele, Enrique Miret.
Vern Vernon, Dora Lockett.
Mrs. Pembroke, Florence Butler.
"The play chosen this year," Professor MacMurray said this morning, "is a departure from the usual type of play presented by the Dramatic Club. 'A Full House' is a light comedy, full of humorous situations, and does not intend to elicit arousal." "We are making a special effort to find the best stage setting and will spare no expense to get what we want.
"Practice rehearsals are being carried on energetically in order that the play will be a finished production in December."
COMPLETE PLANS FOR CONVENTION
University People Will Attend State Teachers' Meeting In Tooneka
The program of the Kansas State Teachers' Association, which will meet in Topcala, November 9, 10, 11, has been completed. The opening number will be furnished by the K. U. male quartet.
"What the Business World Expects of Our Colleges," will be discussed by Scott Hopkins of Topkapi. This talk will be followed by an ad攻势 from the University Express from our Colleges" by the Rev. Nolie S. Elderman of Lawrence
Dean F. J. Kelly, of the School of Education, will speak before the English, the economics and the sociology round tables. Prof. A. J. Boynton will talk on "Instruction in Economics; Its Limitations and Possibilities." Prof. Mark Skidmore, the will present will teach The Direct Method of Teaching Modern Languages," before the round table of Romance languages.
Harry Morgan, editor-in-chief of the University Daily Kansan and Henry Pegues, news editor, will go to Topeka at noon tomorrow to report the meetings and lectures for the Kansas Editorial Association. Their work in Topeka will keep them there until Saturday.
University students who desire to attend the association will be excused from class for one semester of the annual reunion of the alumni, students, faculty and friends of the University, which will be held Thursday, June 21 at the First Bap-Baptism in Topeka.
Prof. U. G, Mitchell, Dr. Alberta Corbin, Prof. W. D, Davis, C. E Merwin, principal of the Central school, Prof. A. T, Walker, and Prof. E. H. S. Bailey, all of Lawrence, will contribute to the program.
Will Attend University Convention Dean F. W. Blackmar will leave tonight for Warchest, Mass., where he will attend the annual convention of the Association of American Universities and also of the Deans of Graduate Schools. The Association is made up of about twenty-one of the leading universities of the United States of which Kansas is a member.
Bath Rose caught up from The Phl Gams were drunk from the rain for a few minutes last night when a bathrobe hanging in a closet belonging to Gerard Allen, c19 caught fire. Three suits and a raincoat burn before the fire could be extinguished. The fire department was not called.
Bath Robe Caught on Fire
K.U. ENROLLMENT NOW TOTALS 3298
COLLEGE OUTSTRIPS ALL
Present Attendance Shows 300 Increase Over Other Years
Enormous Growth Threaten Serious Classroom Shortage in Templin's School
SIX THOUSAND SEATS ARE SOLD
The total enrollment for the University of Kansas for the school year starting June, 1916, has reached 3,298, according to a summary of the University attendance district. District George O. Foster after all duplications have been checked. This is the number of different students who have enrolled for study on Mount Oread, and is more than three times the number in any mark for an entire year.
Of the 3,298, 2,716 have enrolled for work during the present fall semester. The most startling increase has been in the College where the total attendance now is 1,814, total faculty shortage of room for Classes colleges.
Of the total enrollment, and excluding 60 students at Rosedale, 1,968 are men and 1,270 women. At present here are 1,729 men in school and 1,249 women in school.
Attending the Graduate school are 102 students, 65 men and 33 women.
Of the 1,814 in the College, 1010 are men and 100 are women. The numbers 237 with 124 men and 113 women; the junior class 317 with 157 men and 160 women; the sophomore class 433 with 245 men and 188 women; freshman class 696 with 403 men and 293 women. Of the 131 special students in the College.
MEN OUTNUMBER WOMEN
HEAVENS! A WOMAN
In the Engineering school are 459 men and one woman who is a member of the freshman class The students are divided by classes with 78 seniors, 74 juniors, 112 sophomores, 169. freshmen and 27 specials.
The School of Fine Arts is one of two schools in which women outnumber the men. The total enrollment is 176 with only eighteen men. They are 48 seniors, 14 juniorists, 26 sophomores, 66 freshmen and 62 specials.
LAWS HAVE ONE TOO
There are 155 "Laws" with only one woman among them. Forty-five seniors, 35 middle, 55 junior and 20 seniors is the way the attendance is divided.
The School of Pharmacy has three women among its 56 students. There are 14 seniors, 25 juniors, 11 sophomores, three Freshmen and three Sophomores. There is a small number of underclastern is that most of the pharmacy students
THE DANCE IS ON. MAYBE
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Committee Asks Senate for Aft
ternoon Dance Privilege
The majority of the organizations on the Hill favor the limitation of the number of dances that any organization can give within the year, according to the replies to the questionnaire Student Interest Committee recently. As a joint meeting of the committees last night all replied were last read.
A committee appointed is going to recommend that the Senate grant permission to sororities to dance from five until six o'clock on Friday afternoons as long as the Pan-Hellenic ruling prohibits dancing from seven until eight o'clock. The Senate will have a report to make soon.
Sale Reaches High Mark, But McCook Can Seat 16,100
MANY ALUMNI TO RETURN
Smoker Proves an Attraction— Rooters Will Get 800
Seats
when the smoke had cleared away today after the first rush for seats for the Missouri-Kansas game, over six thousand seats had been paid for and delivered when the first round of applications had been filled. The majority of the seats were from throng or orphan care facilities reserving as many as 350 seats for their members, alumni, and friends.
Alumni from every part of the tate and many from distant states are planning to attend the annual festival of the twishthe of the Tirer's tail.
The Senior-Alumni Smoker is proving an additional attraction, and if alumni reports to fraternities can be taken as an indication of the probabilities of a large return, it is certain that a larger crowd than ever before will be on McCook Field on Thanksgiving Day.
SMOKER AN ATTRACTION
A special section of 800 seats is being reserved in the south bleachers for rooters only. Admission to this section, which is on the fifty-yard line, may be gained only by rooters, and must be reserved by the preference. Seats in this section sell at $2.00, or $1.00 and a student ticket.
The whole south bleachers are reserved for Kansas men and women and their friends. The Missouri rooters will have the middle section on the north side of the field, and the seats will all be in one section. The seats for the Missouri students will be sold in advance at Columbia, and the officers of the advance will get their chances on advances will have to take their chances on getting seats in the Missouri section if they don't buy until they get here.
ROOTERS GET SOUTH BLEACHERS
There are 9,000 permanent bleacher seats on McCook Field. Twenty-one hundred box seats and 5,000 circus seats will be put up to accommodate the extra crowd. "We are expecting to fill every one of these seats," said W. O. Hamilton this morning. "If it is necessary we can accommodate over a thousand more in standing room.
"Meanwhile every mail brings in a flood of applications for tickets, and it is a conservative estimate to say that 15,000 will see the game. I would advise students to get their tickets at once."
Gilbert M. Clayton, c15, who has been with the United Press at Topeka since last August, has been transferred to Kansas City where he is now acting manager of the United Press. Mr. Clayton expects to remain in Kansas and then will go to Oklahoma City where a newborn is being organized.
FORMER STUDENT IS MANAGER UNITED PRESS
The following excerpts were snatched from Ed. Howe's speech:
Mr. Clayton was Prof. Merle Tucker, who taught biology at the university bureau while in the University.
Only sixty freshmen women attended the election of the freshman representatives to the W. S. G. A. field in Fraser Hall at noon today, Angela Fogarty and Frances Strickland were elected. The vote stood Angela Fogarty, 37 votes, Frances Strickland, 40 and Fressa Baker 29.
FRESHMEN WOMEN ELECT
W. S. G. K. A. REPRESENTATIVES
HOWE-ISMS
"If I should become confused, do not laugh at me; applaud, and keep it up."
"You cannot criticize a public speaker—you must sit in silence while he bores you."
"I have always wanted to be called Hon. Edgar Watson Howe, but they call me Old Ed. Howe."
"Some say we should always love our enemies—but we do not do that; we hate them."
"Whether or not I know anything about the newspaper business, I do not know."
"I am so old-fashioned that I believe I like ham and eggs better than I like terrapin; I know I like lemonade better than I like champagne."
"I believe in selfishness; the man who is selfish cannot afford to be a drunkard, a liar, or a thief."
"Success in life is easier than failure; so it is in the newspaper business."
"One trouble with the newspapers is that they compliment too much."
"The first thing in the newspaper business is to be as good a man or woman as possible—the next thing is to be as good an editor as possible."
WILL EXHIBIT COLLECTION OF ART STUDENTS' LEAGU
A large collection of examples on student work in drawing, painting, and design, is expected by Prof. W. A. Griffiths of the department of Art History at Buffalo University of this month. The collection will be made up of works from the Art Students' League of New York, the Pennsylvania Academy of Design, and the Boston School of Fine Arts, three of our best art schools in the United States.
The work will be placed on exhibition in the art gallery on the third floor of the Administration Building, in order to compare them with the work done by the fine arts students in the University.
NATIVE TALKS ON MEXICO PROBLEM
Senor De la Garza, Statesman and Lawyer, Will Speak
"What is Wrong With Mexico?" This is the question which Senior Emeretic De La Garza, lawyer, statesman, lecturer, and former member of the Mexican Chamber of Deputies, will discuss before the students in Fraser November 17, at the third University lecture for this semester.
HAS HIDDEN MANY OF QUEENS
Senor De Garra is a member who has given much of his life to the study of France's national and international problems. He represents no party, class or faction. For twelve years he was a member of the Chamber of Deputies, and has been connected as friend and adviser with the governments Díaz, de la Barra, Malero and Huerta.
That Senor De Garza is well equipped for a discussion of the momentous question is evidenced by the list of matters that he has discussed with the various governments of Mexico. As commissioner for the government of Mexico he was one of the committee sent to the United States and has served in that capacity which placed Mexico on a gold basis. As attorney for the Republic of Mexico, he made arrangements for the proper distribution of the waters of Mexico, which irrigates both the California's.
REPRESENTED U. S. INTERESTS
As representative of the federal government he traveled throughout Mexico to discuss each of its twenty-two states, discussed and agreed upon the only terms by which they could remain in the union. Senor de la Garza has been legal adviser for the Department of Pomelo and Interior of Mexico. For years he was a congressman, 1898-1910.
In addition to the above he has served in Mexico as the attorney for a federal case.
"The lecture of Senor el aragao no doubt will be one of the most interesting of those which will be given at the University this year," declared F. R. Hamilton, of the University Extension Division today.
THE OPERA IS POSTPONED
Chimes of Normandy Will Be Given Dec. 5.
The "Chimes of Normandy," an opera to be given by the students of the School of Fine Arts, which was scheduled for November 23 at the Bowersock Theater has been postponed until December 5.
"The rehearsals are coming along fine," said Prof. W. B. Downing, who is drilling them, "And we ought to have something very good, especially with the extra time we will have by postponing the date."
Mrs. Florence Butter is taking charges of the stage direction, and is making sure that she has a matric side of the opera. She pronounces her part to be coming along splendidly, and also expects something more important when the opera is presented."
Chautauqua County Organizes
Chaufaquna County Organizes
The students from Chuteuaqua
County are in attendance 1202
and organized for the conference.
They elected the following officers:
Ray Brewster, president; L. N. Crawford,
vice-president; Harold Cox, secretary;
Carl Jolliffe, treasurer.
President Brewster and D. L. Buckles will represent the club at the Clubs Convention on Thursday. The formation was postponed until the next meeting which will be held Sunday afternoon.
The Weather
Unsettled and colder tonight, Wednesday generally fair, colder east and
Alpha Chi Sigma, chemical frater-
nium, announces the pledging of Willi-
ard University.
Agnes Hertzler, m'20, spent Sunday and Monday at the Alpha Chi Omega house at Baldwin.
STUDENTS MAY DECIDE ELECTION
Large Percentage of Students Votes Today—Some Went Home
DATE RULE IS TAKEN OFF
less
Fair Co-eds and Dates May Gef Returns by Wire-
The Lawrence polls were crowded this morning with candidates and their helpers, many of whom were students.
Wilson or Hughes? Hughes or Wilson? The students of the University of Kansas may have it in their powers to say. Nearly forty percent of the students of the University of Kansas have the degree or at their home towns today.
Many students registered and voted in Lawrence, having been one year or more a resident of this city while attending school. Many were at the polls this morning making affectionate home towns, and sending their ballots by mail. Still others left for home and will not only vote at the polls in their home towns, but will put in their time working for favored candidates.
The town democratst and republicans have enlisted the members of the Woodrow Wilson and the Hughes Club for active service, and many classes showed depleted rolls this morning.
Statements as to the probabilities of a close election were given out this morning by several professors in the political science department, and they urged all of their students to vote.
DATE RULE OFF
Interest in the election was running tight this afternoon. Arrangements o get the returns by wireless from he station at 700 Mississippi street and the University Club has a private leased wire for the professors. Every newspaper office in the district will be provided to Merchants and Farmers Association will have a private leased wire for their members.
No date rule tonight is the decree of the Womans' Student Government Association according to Mona Clara Huffman, president of the organization. The decision was made because the women voters of the University will be extremely anxious to hear (Continued on page 4)
EXPECT DEBATE VICTORY
Burns Looks for Double Win
Over Nebraska
"We are looking for a double headed victory," said Oidis H. Burns, instructor in the department of public speaking, in discussing the prospects n the Kansas-Nebraska dual debate. "We have three old men back, and some new ones are showing up exceptionally well." Nebraska won last year's debate by a two to one decision. We will be showing this year encourages us to hope that we will have the long end of the score this time.
Final arrangements have not been made, but the debates will probably be held about December 14. Twelve men were selected Friday to make up the squad, and six of these will be chosen as soon as possible for the two teams. The squad members are: Albert Richmond Harold Mattoon, W. H. Wilson, A. B. Irwin, R.L. Robertson, M. N. McKean, George Harris, W. O. Hake, and Paul Schmidt.
DRAMATIC CLUB TO MEET
IN GREEN HALL TOMORROW
A meeting of the K. U. Dramatic Club will be held tomorrow night at eight o'clock in Green Hall. A program has been arranged for this meeting, including a farce to be the star of the evening; the farce and the rest of the program promises a very interesting evening for those present.
In addition to this program a uncheon has been arranged by the committee's chair, members of the group and present eight 'clock sharp tomorrow night.'
Society Honors Professor Bailey Prof. E. H. S. Bailley, of the department of chemistry of the University, was elected vice-chairman of the division of the American Chemical Society to serve water, sewage, and sanitation at the New York meeting of the society. A large attendance is expected at the spring meeting which will be held in Kansas City some time in April. The society will spend one day in Lawrence, when it will visit lawrence, when it will visit
Shirley Peters, c'19, visited friends in Holton Sunday.