UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOLUME XIV
NUMBER 17.
SECRET PRACTICE NOW
Olecott's Men Worked on New Plays Yesterday—Expect Illinois to Win
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS, TUESDAY AFTERNOON, OCTOBER 3, 1916.
SQUAD IS MUCH CRIPPLED
And even though Kansas loose, against Illinois—and she will—Coach Ocott figures that the experience is worth the loss; and he is willing for his warriors—admittedly inferior to the Big Nine team —who膝 johns of Illinois predicts that Illinois will win by thirty points; and this after he had seen the Jayhawks work against the Normals Saturday. "Illinois has as good or a better team than she had last year," he told Kansas officials," and we expect to clean up in the Big Nine this season. The Kansas队 seem inconsistent with inconsistent game, full of brilliant streaks and careless slumps. Perhaps a week more of practice will make big difference.'
Heath, Frost, Minor, Fast. and Reed Could Not Work Out
Behind the locked gates of McCoop Field, Coach Beau Beoulot put his Jayhawker football squad through the first secret practice of the season last week. The team is — four long hours of arduous, muscle racking labor. Signal formations, new plays, and variations of the forward passing plan spent the most time.
It was a bang-up, disabled team that ambled through the formations and scrimmage. Frost was in poor shape, but he managed. Minor's face was swollen from bruises he received last Saturday; and Fast and Tad Reed were unable to appear on the field in suits. Minor injuries kept him out of work from being as "peppy" as usual.
No statements have been made by any of the coaches regarding the condition of the men, the showing made by the team against the Normals, or the Jayhawkers' chance to play. Coach Oloctit is giving an impersonation of Old Man Mystery; Pottery Clark is doing an imitation of the well-known Sphinx; and Coach McCarty, in true Irish fashion, saves nothing and works hard.
It is a foregone conclusion that Kansas will lose next Saturday. That much was expected when the game was scheduled. But Coach Olcott thought the team needed a game that was more difficult to have 'class' and "pep" and all the training that "Big Nine" athletes are supposed to acquire.
Speed Heath, who suffered a wrenched knee and a sprained ankle in the Normal game Saturday, watched the practice from the sidelines. He spent Sunday in bed, but insisted on going to the field yesterday on a pair of crutches. He will be unable to play against Illinois.
Perhaps it will. Coach Occlott isn't saying. Coach Clark isn't saying. Coach McCarty isn't saying. Nobody's saying. All they are doing is locking the gates of McCook Field and working with all their might on new plays that nobody seems to know anything about.
Y. M. C. A. MAN HERE TO CONFER WITH STUDENTS
W. H. Ball of the international committee of the Y. M. C. A. will be in Lawrence next Thursday to visit the Y. M. C. A.'s here. Mr. Ball has charge of the placing of physical directors in the American Y. M. C. A. and where here will probably confer with men who are interested in this work.
Next Saturday, perhaps, the secret will be out.
Helen Wooddell, c'19, has been out of school this week because of ill-
Compulsory investigation of labor disputes is the question to be debated this year in the triangular debate between Oklahoma and Nebraska, Odis H. Burran, of the department of public speaking, announces. The question of the dual debate between Nebraska and Kansas has not been resolved. The council of the University of Nebraska
"Mr. Ball will be glad to talk things over with anyone interested," said Dr. Naismith today. "Anyone who wants to meet the Y. M. C. A. at Thursday."
Announcement of debate tryouts will be made soon.
The Women's Glee Club will meet at North College on Wednesday from 6 to 8 p.m.
Mr. Ball, Dr. Naismith and Coach A. A. Stagg of the University of Chicago played on the same football at the Springfield Y. M. A. C. College.
An annual business meeting of the University Club will be held Friday, October 20, in the University Club house, at eight o'clock.
TRIANGLE DEBATERS WILL
ARGUE LABOR ARBITRATION
K. U. FACULTY MEN TO ADDRESS CITY FATHERS
C. A. Dykstra, associate professor of history, and Dr. S. J. Crumbine, dean of the School of Medicine, are members of the K. U. faculty who will appear on the program of the eighth annual convention of the Association of Teachers which meets at Independence on October 11, 12 and 13. The program was announced today by Homer Talbot, secretary of the league.
Both Student and Professors Have Good Chance for Championship
FINALS COME SATURDAY
The climax of the first annual all-school tennis tournament has been reached, and rivalry between the students and professors for the championship is now at its keenest point. The preliminary and first rounds have all been played and it is likely the doubles will be started tomorrow.
Much interest is centered on who will carry off the honors. The playing of Kenneth Uhh, Vonderschmidt and "Ely" Cowgill for the student side has been highly commendable. That of Professor Mitchell on the team has equally as much merit. So closely matched are the contestants, that all indications show that the fight for victory has just begun.
"This high wind will keep us from playing, but we hope to finish up the tournament by Saturday," said Professor Mitchell this morning.
HORAL UNION ORGANIZES
Propagation of Last Year's Club is Certain
The Choral Union will hold its first meeting of the year in the high school building on Ninth and Kentucky at 7:30 tonight. Professor Nevin will be director of the chorus this year and requests that all University students who wish to join the chorus be present at this business meeting.
Officers for the year will be elected and full details of the organization will be worked out. The dates for the concerts and the music for the year are determined. Concerts will depend on the size of the chorus and the enthusiasm shown.
Last year the Choral Union had a membership of 150 and gave three concerts. Professor Nevin hopes for a much larger membership this year.
With a larger organization and greater enthusiasm than ever the International Polity Club will hold the Betta house Wednesday night.
Large Membership Marks Opening of Year's Work
POLITY CLUB WILL MEET
"We expect to make this a record, year in the history of the organization," Kenneth Lott, president of the organization, said. "We expected to half the world in war, and our own country facing the most serious diplomatic problem it has encountered for half a century, a great increase being taken in governmental policies.
The International Polity club was organized in 1914 to satisfy a need for an organization that would have for its object the study of international relations. Last year Kenneth Pringle went to Europe with the Ford expedition as K. U.'s representative. The organization pays the expenses of two delegates from each club to the national convention.
House Mothers Entertained
House mothers of the fraternities and sororites were entertained with and Hall yesterday. After a social meeting and refreshments, the party attended the second performance at the Bowersock theater. The housemothers are Mrs. Belle Wilmot, Mrs. Virginia Petty, Mrs. A. H. Thompson, Mrs. Edwards, Mrs. Charles McCann, Mrs. Roberts, Ann Cahill, Mrs. Emma Blower, Miss Lucy Adams, Mrs. Mary Allen, Mrs. Anna Shanklin, Mrs. E. L. Herman, Mrs. Jessie Witters, Mrs. E. J. Sagin, Mrs. M. Phillips, Miss Agatha Hoffman, Mrs. Ms. Chinnymer, Mrs. J
"The club will not only be of great value to those who expect to enter government service or to take part in politics; it will also be of great value to people interested in his country's welfare and who desires to become a good citizen."
Every student and faculty member is cordially invited to attend the meeting at the Beta house Wednesday evening, 7:30.
House Mothers Entertained
Olcott Hopes to Trim Illinois
NO URBANA SPECIAL Y. M. TO BOOST BUDGET
Rooters Forced to Abandon The Trip—Squad Leaves
Friday
Coach Herman Olcott, with us now for the second year, has reason to know a good deal about football for he has been in the game since he was a freshman. When he played on the Yale team in 1900, Yale won the championship; and after graduating in 1901, he started in coaching football, first, at the University of North Carolina, then at the United States Naval Academy, at Annapolis, and at New York University, and finally here at Kansas. No wonder that he hopes to coach our team to victory Saturday.
Plans for the Urbana trip for the Kansas-Illinois game were announced this morning by Manager W. O. Hamilton. Twenty-two Varsity men will be taken on the trip, in addition to the coaches and Manager Hamilton himself, and six of the men who are to make the trip will be announced Thursday night.
The squad will leave Lawrence in a private car on Friday afternoon, October 6 at 3:50, on the Santa Fe. At Kansas City the car will be switched to the New York limited of the Wabash. Leaving the city at 6 a.m., the team will reach Urbana the next morning at 8:00. A light workout on the Illinois field probably will furnish the morning's entertainment for the squad.
The Englishman replied, gruffly,
"I would much rather be descended from those folks than to have them descended from me."
The plan of running a special train for rooters has been abandoned, after two weeks of negotiation on the part of Manager Hamilton. "We are very pleased to have had this discussion with Press, M.J. Shine of the Wabash told Manager Hamilton in declining the proposition, "but we find that it is impossible. And that, too, in the face of a strong opposition, no school in the Middle West to which we would rather grant courtesies."
The application was made to the Wabash on the strength of a rate that road made last year to students at the University of Missouri. The Wabash was afterward reprimanded by the Inter-State Commerce Commission for reducing the fare; and the railroad refused a second and more serious reprison, but fusel to make a special rate to Kansas rooters. "We're mighty sorry," said Mr. Shine, "but we simply can do it and get away with it."
SPECIAL FARE 10 URBANA
A special low price fare to the Kansas Nebraska game at Lincoln will doubles the cost, according to Manager Hamilton. If Pacific is unable to make rates, application will be made to the Missouri Pacific, and the train will be routed through Kansas City.
Professor Boynton, while visiting an English zoological garden, came upon an Englishman gravely observing some monkeys.
Prof. Royton ventured the ques-
tion, "How would you like to be de-
manded?"
Bovnton Jokes Again
SPECIAL FARE TO URBANA
Quartet.
Tryouts will begin. 5530 p. m. in Myers Hall for the Y. M. C. A. quartet for the coming year Kenneth Uhls, of the School of Medicine, will be manager and director. Their other are trying out, but everybody is welcomed, as the best possible quartette to the University is desired.
ew Y. M. C. A. Quartette
Promotion Force Meets Tonight to Consider Plans For Campaign
Campaign
A new Y. M. C. A. promotion force which is being organized by Hugo Wedeld, general secretary of the Y. M. C. A., will meet in Myers Hall from June 21 to July 4 for the organization will include all of the old members of the Mot-Robins campaign of 1914 and also about 100 new members of the Y. M. C. A. Two hundred were on the force last year but this spring five hundred will be the goal.
Wedell met with the Y. M. C. A. cabinet this morning at 6 o'clock and outlined the plans and methods of the organization for the coming year. These plans will be presented at the Myers Hall motton force in Myers Hall tonight.
The aim of the promotion will be to raise money for the annual Y. M. C A. budget. A thorough canvass of the University will be undertaken.
THE VEREIN GIVES PLAY
"Meisterschaft" Will Be Given Tonight
"Meisterschaft," a three act comedy by Mark Twain, will be presented by the members of the German Verein at the event, this evening, at eight o'clock.
The "Meisterschaft" is a German primer used by two American girls who are forced by an ambition parent to attend a competition. The task appears stipenduous to the until Romance enters in the guise of two attractive young men who also are allowed to speak only German. The primer must be that and the play ends happily.
Katherine Reding, Helen Wagstaff,
Marie Deibel, Marguerite Sowers,
Harvey Van Felzel, Paul Schmidt,
and Vera Franklin will take the parts in
the play.
"Laboratory Experiments in Selection and Preparation of Food," is the title of a book issued today from the department of journalism press. The book has been prepared under the supervision of Dr. Sprague, head of the department of home economics, and is the result of work done in the department.
HOME ECONOMICS TEXT
FROM JOURNALISM PRESS
K. U. Marshal Wants Ushers
K. U. Marshal Wants Ushers Prof. J. L. Wheeler, university marshal reports vacancies for ushers for the University Concert Course. Students of free admission can see Mr. Wheeler at his office in the trophy room of Robinson Gymnasium, between the hours of 10 and 12.
The University Club will give a smoker Saturday night, October 7, at the University Club. The affair will be informal and is given for the purpose of meeting the new faculty members.
The first meeting of the University of Kansas alumni visitors will be held in Lawrence the latter part of October. The alumni visitors will inspect the University in all of its departments and then report to the alumn association. The visitors for this year: Scott Hopkins, '81, Toledo; Elizabeth Hickey, '96, John A. Edwards, '96, Eureka; R. C Russell, '00, Great Bend; Olli Thompson, '97, Waterville; W. B Sutton, '98, Kansas City, Kanss
ALUMNI WILL INSPECT
UNIVERSITY IN OCTOBER
HEAR DRY CANDIDATE
Small Crowd Met J. F. Hanly Prohibition Candidate, for President
Over one hundred persons, mostly men and women of middle age, gathered around the rear end of the Hanly prohibition campaign special train as it stopped yesterday afternoon at the Santa Fe station.
"The purpose of the Prohibition party in their extensive campaign this fall is not to elect a president but to force them to vote for national prohibition," said Mr. Hanly. "This we believe will force the major parties to write an amendment for national prohibition." The constitution of the United States by 1920.
Ira Landrith, the candidate for vice president, attacked the attitude of the average church man in "prayer on Sunday and working for the day."
"I believe that the church," he said, "could do what it would, if it would do what it could. The trouble is that we Preshysterians have been spending our time licking the Methodists and have not had time to lick the saloons. The other churches have done as badly.
“If you voters would be truer to your consciences than to your parties, Mr. Hanley would be our next president and our curse of liquor would be blotted out.”
"You can't found a great civilization and commercial prosperity on vice," he said. "The traffic in drink defies the sovereignty of the American people to administer the government, as did slavery before the Civil War."
Mr. J. FrankAHenley addressed the crowd in a deep voice, putting all his energy into his talk. Perspiration became visible as he Torehead and ran down his face.
"You cannot depend upon the major parties to give you national prohibition. The Chicago convention was packed in behalf of the liquor interests. The Democrats have been in power for three years and President Wilson has said nothing against the liquor traffic.
"If you voters here in Kansas believe prohibition is a good thing, then don't you believe it would be good for the United States?"
"I am ashamed of a traffic that despoils and dishinhibits the childhood of my country. If Mr. Wilson is not president, I would not be to president for an hour."
BUSINESS MEN BRING
BATTERY B TO LAWRENCE
The business men of Lawrence have succeeded in having Battery B of the Kansas National Guard Field Artillery located here, which will bring about $150,000 worth of equipment to Lawrence. It will give eminent support besides the regular sergeant who will have his headquarters here.
Pittsburg and Wichita tried for the berry but could not show sufficient information.
The men will receive one-fourth of the regular army pay, which will be $4 a month. The recruits will train only one hour and a half each week, or six hours per month. So far the recruiting has been very successful. Over half of the required 133 men have enlisted. There are twenty Mt. Corps in sixteen from the University and four from the Oread Training School.
The battery is recruiting at the City Y. M. C. A.
Bess Wilhite, c'16, left Sunday for Almena where she will teach English in the high school. Miss Wilhite entered the University this year to take her master's degree but withdrew upon receiving her appointment.
Y. W. held its regular meeting Tuesday at 4:30 o'clock in Myers Hall After tea and wafers were served, Miss Swenson of the depart- ment of Eustich on "Euthi- sisiasm" and Vera Hill gave special musical numbers.
Prof. and Mrs. C. H. Ashton, Annette Ashton and Dr. and Mrs. John Sundwall drove to Garnett Sunday to visit Madeline Ashton, c'15, who is teaching German in the Garnett high school.
CO. M. ORDERED HOME
Lucille Elmore, c'20, returned this morning from a week-end visit in Toledo.
Entire First Regiment to Return, Bringing 100 University Students
WILL STRENGTHEN SQUAD
Woodward, Robbins, to Join Football Squad Soon
The First Regiment, K. N. G., has been ordered home, according to advises received here today from the border. In this detachment are Company M, from the University, Company H, Lawrence, and the hospital corps, including about 100 University students, among whom are Rook fullback on last year's freshman squad, who be the best passer in the Missouri Valley, George Hart, and Roy Robbins, of the 1915 squad.
When the K. U, guardmen will re-
locate Lawrence has not been an en-
gagement.
A Michigan regiment will replace the Kansas troops on the border.
The return of Woodward and Robbins will mean much to the K. U. football team. Robbins will give Coach Olcott another experienced end while Woodward will greatly raise the efficiency of the Jayhawker squad.
H.C. OF L.HITS ANNUAL
Gelvin May Hike Price of Jayhawker Unless Materials Stop Climbing
"It's the high cost of living, The high cost of living."
Manager Dick Gelvin, of the 1917 Jayhawner, hasn't—as yet—started out over the campus singing that little song; but he's considering such action seriously if the prices on paper, ink, leather, halftones and other things necessary to the publication of an annual don't drop soon. Manager Gelvin is "up ope creek." Manager Gelvin is "up all annual." And, from all indications, he'll doubtless be "still boating" for some time.
Take paper, for instance. When the war in Europe put all the paper mills over there out of business, the American mills at once found a world market for their products. Result: the paper mills in the history of all paper making were stopped sending the chemical "bleach" used in making paper pulp white, prices took another upward leap. And they're still aeroplaning.
We are sales.
"We used to buy excellent wrapping paper for five cents a pound." Owen Carl, of Johnson and Carl, said yesterday. "Now we can't get it at all, and have to pay ten cents for an inferior grade."
"Print paper for the Kansan costs three times as much as it did a year ago," says Supt. W. B. Brown, of the department of journalism press. "As for book paper, we can't get it. The mills will quote a price 'upon delivery', but they can't promise to deliver within five months."
Then there's the leather proposition. Notebooks that formerly cost $1, now sell for $2. Shoes that sold for $6 and $7 six months ago sell for $5 today. And, of course, the leather needed for binding the Hawkeyers has hiked skyward along with the other varieties of hide.
Take inks. It's impossible to get certain dyes necessary in ink-making. As a result, inks cost four times as much as before the war. It is practically impossible to buy numerous colors essential in color printing. As for colored leather and colored cardboard—there's none on the market.
ENGRAVING EXPENSIVE
Last of all comes the engraving situation. In days gone by annual managers could buy half-tones and zinc etchings by the square inch, and they were cheap. Now the engraver sells his products by "scale price" to get the way from one and three-quarters to two and a half times as much.
"We haven't been able to close a single contract for the Jayhawk!" Gelvin said today. "The Union Bank Note company of Kansas City, which printed the book last year, is holding an exhibition before submitting a bid. The Company of Topeak, made us a price almost $2,000 above the cost of printing last year's book. And the engravers and binders simply won't talk prices when they talk business. They're willing to do the work, but it's not that easy. The market price at the time the work is done. They won't sign a contract."
Editor Arnold Nordstrum, however, is going ahead with his plans for the book. The staff will be announced soon.
The Wrong Clarence
By mistake the name of Clarence Lott was given in the list of those who played at the club dance last Friday night. The name should have read Clarence Holt.