UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
NUMBER 22.
VOLUME XIV.
TYPHOID FIGHT IS ON
Physicians Battle Against Dread Disease; No New Cases Today
EXAMINE DRINKING WATER
Patients "Getting Along Nicely"
—State Experts Here
"The typhoid patients are getting along nicely," Dr. John Sundwall said this morning. Howard Harper, Harvey McKibbins, and Burness Sharpe are being watched carefully yet no new cases have been seen since he has come from the four students who left school with symptoms of the disease.
Investigation of the drinking water and the milk used at the club where the students boarded is still in progress under the supervision of the State Board of Health. The report was written in truth, revealing the source of the infection.
"Even in situations as serious as this," said a member of the hospital staff, "funny things are bound to happen. Sunday we sent home a man with symptoms of typhoid, after giving him the first shot of typhoid vaccine. While he was home his doctor made him a blood test and reported that the student had shown he would expect a positive test when some 5,000,000 dead typhoid germs had been shot into his system the day before."
"Whether typhoid, when once in the system, can be stopped by inoculation is a mooted question. Doctors disagree."
AKERS TALKS POLITICS
Young Republican Addresses
Huges Club Tomorrow
The second round of K. U. political meetings is starting this week. The Hughes and Wilson clubs have been duly organized. Now comes the announcement of the Second Husky Hall at 7:30 o'clock Wednesday evening with State Treasurer Earl Akers as the speaker.
Akers is known as one of the prominent younger Republican of Kansas. Four years ago he was a newspaper editor at Stafford, Kans. He was a surprise candidate for state treasurer and governor of Burke County house after. In January he will complete his second successful term as state treasurer and will become cashier of the new State Reserve bank at Topika which was founded through the efforts of Frank P. MacLeman, former State Journal and himself a U.K. U,man.
Ames Rogers, president of the Hughes club and his fellow officers are preparing for a large attendance with students from all over the country. With the campaign coming nearer, it is expected that there will be a greater interest in politics and K. U. students will welcome a chance to hear issues of the day as they meet with students at the "meeting will not last late, so
The meeting will not last late, so that those who attend will not lose an opportunity.
Will K. U. Get the Habit?
Don't Want Unsightly Shacks
Will K. U. Get the Habit?
The return of the K. U. students with a wristwatch may have its disconcerting features. There is the danger of the spread of the wrist watch habit. Wrist watches are the thing in the army and sometimes the soldier, when he returns to civil life, forgets to lose the habit. It might seem funny for students who wear wristwatch watches. However, those addicted to the habit insist that wrist watches are practical time savers.
Don't Want Unisghty Shacks The faculty and students at the University of Chicago are against all unisghty billboards and eating shacks which have recently been erected along the main thoroughfare leading to the campus. Students are required to permit anything to lessen the beauty of the university buildings.
Lawson May, c'19, of Hutchinson, went to Topeka Friday evening for the Cooper-Washburn football game. Mr. May had two friends on the beach following the game he visited until Sunday morning with friends in Topeka.
The Dunnakin Club, 1317 Ohio street, entertained friends with a picnic at Cameron's Bluff, Saturday afternoon. A hayrack was the mode of conveyance and there was an abundance of eats.
C. B. Holmes, c'15, who has been working in the Illinois Central railroad offices in Chicago for several months has been promoted to the head of a survey company. He is working around Marseille, Il., at present.
George A. Brown, '19, attended the Baker-Wesleyan football game at Baldwin Saturday.
KANSAN DEALS DEATH TO
"STUNT"; TO USE SYNOYNYS
Grieved by the death of his comrade, General Pep, General B. A. Stunt passed away last night at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Useless Adjective, 30 Stereotype Place. In the last few years of his life General Stunt, with General Pep, held active positions on the Kansan, being practiced in the village and staff and commanding the principal reserves of the reportorial forces.
Among the candidates to succeed general Stunt are: Performance, Election Achievement, Education, Celebration, Funeral Service, Leal, Event, Affair, "Dairy."
PROFS WORK AT NIGHT
Nearby Cities to Get Help Through the University Extension Division
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS. TUESDAY AFTERNOON, OCTOBER 10, 1916.
The night classes were started in Kansas City, Kas., last night under the supervision of the University of Chicago. Students enrolled in the Elements of Economics, taught by Prof. G. E. Putnam, and The Short Story by Prof. J. W. Evans. About fifteen students are enrolled in former and twenty in the latter.
Two more classes will be started next week, one in Educational Psychology, taught by Prof. R. E. Carter and the other in Sociology. The second class is Elmer. There probably be about ten classes in each of these classes. One or more English classes will be held later, depending on the demand for the work. Prof. R. A. Schwegler will go to Garnett tonight and open work in Principles of Education. There has been a demand from Ottawa for the work of Mr. Schwegler; there is almost complete. It is probable that Prof. Schwegler will start his work in Ottawa next week if he can get his schedule arranged.
Y. M. WILL CAMPAIGN
The University Y, M. C. A. has set October 19 as the day on which they will stage their big financial campaign to raise money to defray the expenses for the current year. The budget for this year has been set for more than two thousand to be raised among the faculty and five hundred from the members of the Alumni Association.
Time Set for Raising Money for Current Year—Committee Says Oct. 19 the Day
The work of raising this money will be in charge of a committee composed of two hundred students and twenty-five faculty members. They will open the campaign with a banquet in Myers Hall at 12:30 p.m. after which the committee will go out and see as many as possible during the after-mentorship at six o'clock for another banquet, and the results of the afternoon will be figured. The campaign will end in the evening.
The Y. M. budget for last year was raised by the same plan. When school opened last September they were $1,400 in debt. A campaign was organized with the result that the Y. M. C. A. had a clean slate this September and carried a small balance in the bank.
Exhibits Model of Mine
A large plaster model of the Lansing coal mine has been placed on exhibit on the first floor of Haworth Hall under the stairway. It occupies a wooden form, eight feet by ten feet, and is surrounded by an iron railing. It was molded by Leland E. Fiske, m'16.
Ernest Pickering, sophomore in the department of architecture, received the grade of "First Mention Placed," the highest in the class, in the competition on the first plate in the class in architectural design. J. R. Bradley awarded second prize. This class is taught by LeForce Bailey and all of the work of the class is being conducted on a competitive basis.
Profs. Raymond C. Moore, and Winthrop P. Haynes, of the department of geology, inspected places near Lawrence Saturday in an effort to find a suitable place to take their classes on a trip. They said they found some unusually good specimens from the compton, and they will take their classes on a field trip to that place probably some time this week.
Ward S. Barber, c'16, who is traveling out of Kansas City for the Kennewill-Williams Paint Co., stopped on Sunday for a short visit with friends.
Mrs. J. S. Engle and son Harold of Abilitene were the guests of Vioia Engle, c'19, at the Alemannia house yesterday.
SURVIVES CUSTER'S MASSACRE THANKS TO K. U. TAXIDERMIST
Lone Survivor not Recognized in History but Holds His Head High in Dyche Museum
Nearly every mdn, woman and child is familiar with the account of Custer's last fight but they are not aware that, contrary to history, there was a survivor of this fierce encounter in the last battle, that massacre which immortalized General Custer and his 277 brave martyrs, is a horse. The animal was found wandering aimlessly around after the battle and was presented to Mrs. Custer as a token of superhuman bravery of her husband.
MARSHALL TO SEE K. U.
Vice-President Will Take Auto Trip Over the Campus Tomorrow
Thomas R. Marshall, vice-president of the United States will spend several hours in Lawrence tomorrow during which time he will be the guest of the democrats of Lawrence and Woodrow Wilson club at University Kansas to deliver a political address in Ecke's Hall at 3 o'clock tomorrow afternoon.
The distinguished visitor, accompanied by Mrs. Marshall, will arrive in Lawrence from Leavenworth at 10:55 tomorrow morning. A reception committee composed of prominent Lawrence citizens will meet the students and faculty for a tour of Lawrence and the University. Following this a dinner will be served at the Eldridge House for twenty-five invited guests.
An effort was made this morning by Joe Gattskill, president of the K. U. Woodrow Wilson club, to have a special convocation "called so that students might hear the Vice-president in the morning. Owing to various circumstances the calling of such a convocation was impossible at that time. Special arrangements are made for students of the students at the meeting in Ecke's Hall. An evening was found to be impossible because of the fact that Mr. Marshall has an engagement in Topeka at that time.
President Gaitskill announced this morning that the Wilson club would attend the meeting in a body. He is urging the support of the students for the meeting and invites any student to attend the meeting with the K. U. organization. Ralph H. Schroeder will present at present a prominent Lawrence democrat will introduce Mr. Marshall at the afternoon Lawrence
This will be the first visit of Vice-President Marshall to Lawrence in recent years and the local democratics in the region, according to a large county political gathering.
Frank Cortelyou Builds Bridge Over Columbia River
OMPLETE BRIDGE EARLY
Frank Cortelyou, who graduated from the School of Engineering in 1908 and who was the resident engineer in charge of the gigantic cement plant at Fordland, completed his work a month ahead of contract time. Work was begun on the structure in March, 1915, and the contract required it to be built by 1924.
Mr. Cortelyou had a special driver built for driving the 138-foot piles, the work. The average penetration of the piles under one pier is 103 feet.
Ralph Branch, Gear Stoddard, and Frank Gage were the guests of Evan Brown at Lake Forest Saturday and Sunday.
It is a highway bridge, but in addition carries six lines of rails for electric cars and provides the missing link for the Pacific Highway which crosses from Mexico to Canada long stretch from Mexico to Canada. The total length of the thirteen truss spans and one girder span over the main channel of the river, with the two girders bridged required to cross the canal on both side, is four and one-third miles.
While at K. U. Mr. Cortelyou was a member of Sigma Nu. He will bring his wife and little son to Kansas in January to visit his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Luther Cortelyou of Moccahat.
Paul R. Greer spent Saturday in Leavenworth. Mr. Greer is chairman of the election board of his home precinct. He went up to visit some political friends as well as visit members of his family.
Alma Craig went to Wichita Friday to spend Saturday and Sunday at home.
Today the horse stands with his proud head held high in the basement of the Museum, a mute witness of that terrible and cruel conflict of nearly forty years ago. The beast lived to a good old age and after his death his carcass was given to the University as a memorial to the renowned general.
This specimen was owned by Captain Koegh and was ridden by him in that historical slaughter.
Christian Church to Use Myers Hall For Bible. Instrue-
DIVINITY SCHOOL AT K.U
tion
Plans for the establishment of a theological college at the University of Kansas are now being made by the ways and means committee of the Christian Church, of which Registrar George O. Foster is an active member.
Mr. Foster is now in Des Moines attending the national convention of the Christian Church and conferring with the Christian Women's Board of Missions, relative to the proposed Bible college.
The subjects to be offered in the divinity school will be taught by Dr. Arthur Braden and two instructors. A full course in the prescribed work of this tentative school will carry with it the degree of Doctor of Divinity.
The committee expects to utilize the rooms in Myers Hall for the teaching of theological subjects, if it can obtain the consent of the Board of Missions, by whom the Hall was built.
With the establishment of the divinity school at the University of Kansas, the student of theology will be offered the two-fold advantages of a theological school and a large and comprehensive university. He will study theology through academic training along with his study of the science of religion.
A similar institution to the one which is to be located here is now maintained and endowed at the University of Missouri.
DOCTOR SHELDON SPEAKS
Author Will Read From New Novel
Dr. Charles M. Sheldon, famous author of "In His Steps," is writing a new novel of Kansas life. On Wednesday evening he will read from his book at the first chapter of the novel at the Plymouth Congregational Church.
Dr. Sheldon is pastor of the Central Church in Topeka. Several years ago the Topeka Capital was placed in his editorial charge, and for one week he ran that newspaper and it was conducted. It was one of the most interesting newspaper experiments ever attempted.
The meeting at the Congregational Church will be at 7:30 Wednesday. He will also organ recital from 7:30 to 7:45 in which doctor Shelldon will speak.
Cercle Francais Meets Wednesday
At the meeting of the Cercle Francais in Room 306, Fraser Hall, Wednesday at 4:30 c课, officers elected at the last meeting in the spring will assume the official duties for the president; Opal Oumpour, president; Mary Pedroia, c18, vicepresident; Vera Blackburn, c17, secretary; and Guy Ecroyd, c17, treasurer.
Mr. Buxton attended K. U. two years and was a member of the Beta Theta Pi fraternity and of the glee club.
The wedding of Miss Dorothy Meneifee and Mr. Lewis Buxton, '13 of Kansas City, will take place Sat., Jan. 20 in *inwood Boulevard Christian Church*.
Menefee-Buxton
Caroline Doran, fa'20, returned to Lawrence Sunday after having spent Sunday in Kansas City with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Neal Doran.
A message was sent up to Clark last Saturday night saying that the Orpheum in Urbana wanted "Potsy and his gang" down at the show. Later in the evening "Potsy and his gang" were asked to Meads for drinks. His gang of course was the Kansas team.
Grace Walling, c'19, spent Saturday and Sunday with Letha Everton, fa'19, at the home of the latter's grandparents in Melvyn.
FOURTH DIMENSION UNDER
FIRE AT MATH MEETING
The "Mystery of the Fourth Dimension" was the subject discussed by Miss Margaret Coleman at a meeting of the Mathematics Club in the spring of 1982, yesterday afternoon. Miss Coleman told of the investigation of this mysterious mathematical precept in a manner that was interesting to those not specializing in mathematics. The members and visitors were present.
The Club will meet again October 23. "Mathematical Games" will be discussed at that time. The aim of the members is to make these meetings popular. Everyone is invited to attend.
PLEADS NOT GUILTY
Professor Baumgartner Denies That Water Committee Has Been Idle
Prof. W. J. Baugartner, a member of the Lawrence Water Committee, denied today that the water committee has been able to deal with difficultities. E. B. Black and T. Tom Veatch, water engineers from Kansas City, are consulting with the City Commissioners today in regard to the leak at coach and Mr. Black are K. U. alumni.
Professor Baumgartner's statement:
To the Kansan
In your comment upon the purchase of the water plant by the city of Lawrence you make one or two statements which are misleading, and as a member of the water committee I am glad to give you this information.
The suit of mandamus before the supreme court was planned by the committee and commissioners as the best solution to the problem. The committee, including the commissioners have been desirous of going on with the improvement of the plant just as rapidly as possible but they could not do so without opposed opposition of a small minority.
The statement which is most misleading is that "the commissioners have made no plans for the improvement of the water system." The commissioners and committee have met to discuss the situation and secured as the consulting engineers, two graduates of the University. These men have made a thorough survey of the water situation and have made a preliminary report. In fact, much more work has been done with the uncertainty of the situation warranted.
So much of the preliminary report of the engineers appeared in the daily press as would not hinder the later work of the committee.
A meeting will be held today and matters will be pushed as much as possible. A filtering and softening plant will be constructed just as soon as the planted plans can be drawn to the work site. At times the months of the city of Lawrence and the University should have abundant clear, soft water.
(Signed)
W. J. Baumgartner, Member of Water Com.
CITIES' LEAGUE TO MEET
Will Hold Annual Convention at Independence
W. L. Porter, Commissioner of Parks, Topeka, and president of the League of Kansas Municipalities, will address the Eighth Annual Convention of the League, which is to be held in Independence, October 11, 12, and 13. Topeka's plan of selling bonds in small denominations to its citizens presented by W. T. Wanson, Commissioner for Public Works, year, and since that time a number of cities in Kansas have adopted the plan.
A large representation to the vonvention is assured, according to word given out today by C. H. Talot, secretary of the League, who has charged him with the responsibility to Municipal Home Rule will be discussed by Prof. C. A. Dykstra of the department of history at the University of Kansas. John Alley, secretary of the Oklahoma League, will present a paper on the Municipal Home Rule in Oklahoma, it being the policy of the State Department of various subjectes to report on them.
"Community Music Development in Kansas," will be the subject of Arthur Nevin's talk before the convention Thursday morning. Nevin is professor at the University, C. H. Talbot will give the secretary's report Wednesday.
Iris Russel, special in Physical Education, Terril Whitehurst, c'19 Jack Kirkham, e'20, and Norman Greer, c'17 are among those who spent the week-end at Kansas City.
Miss Doris Hogeboom, c'19, spen
Sunday with her uncle in Topeka
after attending the Kappa party
Saturday, at Ruth Foster's.
TO HOLD CONVOCATION
Semi-Monthly Meeting Comes Friday Morning at 10:30
Senate Meeting Today to Decide on Division of Class Time
Dr. W. L. Burdick, vice-chancellor of the University, will deliver the address at the regular semi-monthly convocation Friday morning. This will be Doctor Burdick's first appearance with his new department since appointment to his new office.
The regular semi-monthly,
all-University convocation will
be held Friday morning at
10:30 in Fraser hall chapel. All
classes will be dismissed for
the hour.
(continued)
FRANK STRONG,
Chancellor.
Last year the hour from 11:30 to 12:30 was divided between the 10:30 and 11:30 hours, but hold there has been some objection to this plan. Some new scheme will be worked out this afternoon at the cabinet, which was called this morning.
It is thought possible that the 10:30 and 11:30 classes will alternate taking the hour after chapel. The objection to dividing the time was that neither of the classes had time enough to get anything done.
SOLDIER TENOR SINGS
Martinelli, Former Italian Army Man, Comes to Lawrence Thursday
Discovered by his commander while a member of the Italian army and taken to Milan and there given try outs before three of the most famous vocal teachers and after hard work and study halted as the successor to Giovanni Martini, the soldier-female Giovanni Martinelli, the soldier-female Robinson Gymnasium next Thursday evening. His concert will be the first of the series of concerts to be given in the Gymnasium under the auspices of the School of Fine Arts.
Martinielli has sung in every opera house in Europe and has just arrived in the United States after a successful summer at The Colon Opera in Buenos Aires, one of the finest opera houses in the world. He second to Caruso in New York and has been engaged as the leading tenor at the Metropolitan Opera Company for the 1917 season. Caruso, because of his increasing weight, has been forced to perform in various roles, and New York has at once taken up with Martinielli as the successor. Giovanni Martinielli has the youth, manly bearing and these coupled with the splendor of his voice makes him the captain of the critical New York audiences.
MANY SEATS SOLD
Practically every seat was sold by this morning for the first concert and this assures Dean Butler, in charge of the series of a successful season financially. But there still are a few seats left to be had for $2.50 for students and $3.50 for the townpeople. "Martelli is the highest paid artist, but ever appeared in Lawrence with any company, or in sole work," said Mr. Butter this morning. "This alone should bring many out for this first concert because he is a wonderful singer and is worthy of the support."
Prof. Harry M. Curtman, of the electrical engineering department in the Engineering School returned Monday morning from Winfield, Ohio to Tucson, Arizona for business and incidentally visiting his parents who live near Winfield.
The senior Laws are enthusiastic over a new-fangled exhaust that one Ford which parks near the Law Building has. They sincerely hope that more Fords that park near the building will adopt this new idea. Dr. Burdick cannot tell the sound of the exhaust from that of the whistle.
Bunt Spear, a former Aggie star, who is now head coach at the Hays Normal, was a guest at the Sig Alph house for uncle Chuck Haskell to coach the team played Haskell Friday afternoon, looting to the Indians, 27 to 7.
Typhoid vaccine will be given at the University Hospital any day during this week. Tuesday afternoon, however, will be reserved for women and Friday afternoon for men. The vaccine may be taken by the order of the women during the rest of the week. Beginning with next week, it will be administered on Tuesday and Friday afternoons only, as heretofore.