THE SUMMER SESSION KANSAN
VOLUME V.
CO. M STILL WAITING T
NUMBER 7
Drill Several Miles Daily Under Full Equipment—Feels the Heat
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS TUESDAY MORNING, JUNE 27, 1916.
ALL LEFT IN GOOD SPIRITS
Cancellor Strong Said Goodbye Along With 3,000 Others
The University Company, with the remaining detachments of Company H, left Lawrence Friday morning on the Union Pacific. Nearly three thousand people were at the station to see the boys off.
The men are in excellent condition, according to latest reports. The daily grind of marching several miles with about forty pounds of equipment has been a bug bear, on account of the warm weather. There are approximately twenty-four hundred men in the camp at Fort Riley. Federal and state authorities are co-operating to make the Kansas guard the first state organized militia mustered in with all records complete.
For an hour, while the Haskell band played, the soldiers visited with relatives and friends. The sun beat down upon the crowd and the heat was almost unbearable. The farewell were not as sad as those Thursday, when Company H left. Chancellor Frank Strong was at the station Friday and with all the boys as they were waiting, with some of them Spotts, former K. U, cheerleader, led the students in a rousing "Rock Chalk."
Company M, composed of K. N. G.'s from the student body, are still awaiting orders at Ft. Riley to move to the border. A number of Lawrence poo-ler students on Sunday to tell the boys a last good-bye order to go is expected at any minute.
Flags waved and the crowd on the platform cheered as the train pulled away, with the rear of the coach and waved until the train disappeared around the bend.
ENLIST ON 50-CENT BET
Co. M Gains Two Student Recruits Because of Dare
A dare, involving a bet of fifty cents, caused two students of the University to enlist in Company M in Kansas National Guard, last Thursday.
Just to show the boys that they were not afraid of Mexicans—and to win the fifty cents—Hettinger and Miller went down to the recruiting station for Company M at 812 Massachusetts street and filled out the papers which will place them on the Mexican border in a few days.
"I will bet you follows fifty cents that you are afraid to enlist," said William H. Harrison of Downs, to Myron C. Miller of Anthony, and Hutchinson, while eating dinner at the Kennedy Club, last Thursday.
CALENDAR
Wednesday, June 28; 4:45 p. m,
"Romeo and Juliet" (2 reels);
"Scenes from "Macbeth," (1 reel)
Travel picture "Highways and
Byways of England."
Friday, June 30 4:45 p. m.
"The Midnight Ride of Paul
Revere," (2 reels); "Lady Clare,"
(1 reel).
Special Pipe Organ music in Fraser.
K. U. DAMES TO HOLD FIRST SUMMER SESSION
Mrs. G, D. Johnson and Mrs. R, Irwin will entertain the K. U. Dames next Wednesday afternoon, June 28, of Mrs. G, D. Johnson and Mrs. R, Irwin, W14, W13 Street.
Ordinarily the club does not meet during the summer, but on account of the large number of married men who are in school with their wives, it has become easier to have the meetings so that the new dames may get acquainted more easily.
No definite plans have yet been made, but the club hopes to get the married couples together for a picnic occasionally.
Phi Delts to Have New Home
Phi Delta to Have New Home
The Phi Alpha Delta, honorary law fraternity, will occupy new quarters next year at 1325 Tennessee Street.
The last thing they did before they left this spring was to move their furniture from the old house at 1345 Vermont street to the new house. The house they moved to is now undergoing repairs.
TO TEACH WIRELESS:
Whittemore to Offer Course in Telegraphy This
Fall
A course in wireless telegraphy, offered for the first time by the University, will be given next semester in the department of physics by Laurens E. Whittmore. Mr. Whittmore is at his home in Topeka this summer, ex- and a weekly trip to Lawrence to supervise research work in his subject.
"Mr. Whitmoretome," said Prof. F. E. Kester, when interviewed on the subject this morning, "has conducted all the work done along this line at the University. He has been at work for two years in the laboratory, investigating along original lines and doing some practical work for the department. Aside from the department work, he has secured the scores by wireless of several ball games from over the state, for the Kansas.
The equipment is in hand for m thorough course including laboratory work as well as a theoretical survey, Mr. Kester said messages can be sent 500 miles from the station in Blake Hall, and can be picked up from points as far distant as Key West. The presen- tial work in determining atmospheric conditions between this station and all points with which it is in com-unication. Before the course is offered, new antennae will be installed on the south tower of Fraser Hall and connected with those on Blake Hall.
In Paradise Alley.
The slow droning of a fly against the high windows, a muffled footstep overhead, now and then the clang of the heavy door that opens into the quietest spot on the Hill, are the only sounds that disturb the silence of Paradise Alley—the ignominious hiding place of all the thumb-marked, delapidated magazines that are replaced each month by the new ones.
HOW THEY AWAIT THE JUDGMENT DAY
On that date of finality, the very silence palpitates with eagerness, and if one but possessed an ear attuned to the highest degree of delicacy he could hear hundreds of tiny voices cry, "Take me, Take me." But human ears are very deaf to still small voices and unugent hands separate the chosen from the unchosen, the fit from the unfit. Those, whose sphere of usefulness served but the passing whim of the idle reader, frivolous little magazines, bravely flaunting bright colors to a busy, sensible world that has no farther use for them, are tosseless carelessly to one side and fall with their gay covers like arms out-stretched.
All along the crowded shelves, an authoritative finger points at great stacks of magazines, reposing with dignity in their mean places. But these calmly sure ones are in no undue haste to be chosen because confident that their's is but a transient stay in their musty dimly lighted region. Down they come, with not a page disheveled, to go back into the upper world, where after being adorned with costly leather bindings they will begin a much larger career of usefulness.
Down in the small basement room of Spooner Library, known in library parlance as Paradise Alley, these magazines lie dusty and discarded, their judgment day when an authoritative voice pronounces their ultimate fate.
Lightning Endangers Library
That is as it should be, perhaps. The best thoughts of mature men and women that went into the makeup of these chosen magazines are worthy of the costiest binding and a place upon the bound volume shelf. But these useless ones, that lie in hopeless confusion about the floor, to be consigned to flame or fate as reprehensible, to be tossed back upon their darkened shelves, what of them? Frail little outcasts, unworthy of leather binding and a “place in the sun,” designated by a money loving publisher for a thoughtless, pleasure loving reader, your story is told in the careless manner in which you are flung aside; read and forgotten within the hour, a long wait in Paradise Alley then the rubish heap at last!
Such is the tragedy of magazine life in Paradise Alley.
Learning Ethangers Library
What might have been a bolt of lightning for the Library was intercepted by a cottonwood tree in a recent electrical storm. The tree stands on Bread Avenue, and since it was struck in the north side, the splinters were thrown in the direction of Myers Hall.
H. B. WILSON
H. B. Wilson, superintendent of city schools, Topeka, who will speak this afternoon at 4:45 p. m., in Fraser Hall, on "Motivation of Education." He will also speak Thursday, June 29, on the "Essentials in the Educative Process."
Gives Fourth Course of Special Lectures
K. U. HAS WAR BRIDE WOULD HELP TEACHERS
Eva Cook Married Ernest Goppert of Company
M
Miss Eva Cook, c14 has the distinction of being K. U.'s first war bride. She was married in Kansas City last week to Ernest J. Goppell, a middle law of Belle Plain, Kansas. Mr. and Mrs. Goppell had intended to wait until the former finished college before marrying, but the mobilization of her armored separation were responsible for the hastened marriage.
Mrs. Goppert was a member of the Pi Glam Sigma educational sorority while in school and an active worker in the X. W. C. A. She has been there year after year. She will continue to teach until the return of her husband.
Mr. Goppert is well known on the Hill and was appointed by Dean Green together with Kenneth Lott to have charge of the Law Book next year. He left last Friday with Company M for Fort Riley.
Special Train For Estes
Lawrence Will Install Adequate Filtering and Softening Plant
CITY WATER BONDS CARRY
Among those who were responsible for the success of the water election last Thursday were many of the K. U. faculty and students. Among those who took an active hand in the campaign were: Professors W. J. Baumgartner, C. A. Dykstra, and W. A. F. O'Brien, G. I. Ingham, secretary of the Correspondent Bureau, G. H. Talbot, secretary of the Municipal Reference Bureau; Lucille Talbot, Eber D. Jolly, Jonathan Dow, and Eubie Barba.
A special train en route for Estes Park will stop at Lawrence for the forty delegates of the Y. W. C. A. who will attend the conference there August 14. The train will also take you to the Huntsman delegate and others along the route in Kansas. The girls are practicing songs for the event.
"Knowledge of pure water will be an added inducement to students and people to come to Lawrence," said Mr. Talbot, yesterday, "and eight months from now housewives will no longer be bothered with hard water in which to wash dishes; they will have water as soft as cistern water."
City officials declare that everything is in readiness to take over the water plant and begin work improving the system. The plans provide for a filter system and an iron removal and softening plant. When these improvements are completed, the city will have as good water as any municipality in the State. Lawrence will be one of the first cities in Kansas to install a plant for softening water on a large scale.
Plans and specifications for the filtering and softening plant were prepared by Black & Veatch, two Kansas City engineers. Mr. Black was graduated from the School of Engineering in 1906 and Mr. Veach in 1909. The plan for the softening plant were worked out by Prof. C. C. Young,Mr. J.W. Schwab, Prof. W.A. Whitkifer, and Prof. C.A. Haskins.
Professor Baumgartner is a member of the city water advisory board which will have general supervision over the improvements.
Prof. Johnson Favors Teachers Association Bill to Pension Faithful Service
When asked yesterday for his opinion as to the expediency of a plan to put before the legislature of Kansas a bill for pensioning teachers in this state, Prof. H. W. Johnson replied, "While not familiar with the plan of the committee, I am heartily in favor of pensioning teachers." A bill passed by the legislature was appointed by the State Teachers' Association and is headed by Supt. John F. Bender of Pittsburg.
"When the work of teachers is standardized," said Professor Johnson, "as it is rapidly becoming, the teacher who has given most of his life to his work should be given the assurance of comfortable care in old age. Teachers are pensioned in Germany and France; a service of only ten years in some instances is required in the latter country, for pensions 'to be granted. But the work there is thoroughly standardized; those who have made the required preparation are assured a position until old age overtakes them, or until they are incapacitated them."
WOULD BASE IT ON SERVICE
"I do not think it would be advisable to pension teachers on reaching a given age, but on the basis of years of service, say twenty-five years, or when incapacitated. But remember, if you are a pension no teacher who had not fulfilled the standard of preparation, or who had not made teaching a life profession."
"The chief objection to government pensions for teachers," said Prof. Arvin Olin, "is that every class will want pensions. Already the government is paying one hundred fifty or two hundred millions of dollars in pensions to its soldiers. Now if any class is pensioned, the tax will be reduced." If we break the precedent of pensioning only its soldiers, each class unless pensioned, will cry 'unfair' and clamor for the same privilege.
"As an assurance against want," continued Professor Olin. "I favor a mutual insurance. Such a plan is being worked out for college professors. It will guarantee them an annuity after reaching the age of sixty-five. Or, such foundations as the Carnegie Foundation is superior to the plan of establishing a class of government beneficiaries.
FAVOR MUTUAL INSURANCE
“From an ethical standpoint, there is a question as to whether the pensioned teacher can set a good example before the pupils. With the pension there would be a tendency toward impersonal behavior; should set the example of economy before pupils that they may be better able to meet the problems of life.”
Banquet For Lieut. Sprinkle
Banquet For Lieut. Sprinkle
Edward H. Taylor, who has just returned from the Philippine Islands gave a bake in the morning Wednesday evening for Second Lieutenant L. A. Sprinkle who left for Fort Riley, Friday. Those present were: Prof. W. W. Davis, Montfort E. Angevine, Eber Joly, Earl and Leon Metcalf, Lieutenant Sprinkle, Ayres McKinney, Lance Hill and Sam Pickard. The banquet was followed by a line party at the Bowersock. Montfort Angevine and Earl Metcalf left Friday with their companies.
EARTHQUAKE IN MEXICO
The University Seismograph Records Shock 1300 Miles
Away
An earthquake, occurring somewhere in Mexico or the Gulf of Mexico, was recorded by the University seismograph on at least the 25th. The disturbance was such as to cause considerable bustle in the Physics department. It was made, but not sufficient to be noticed except by the aid of the seismogram.
"The exact location of the shock," said Professor Kester, "is not know; but in all probability it was in Central Mexico, occurring anywhere from the west coast to the Gulf of Mexico, or probably extending as far east as Florida." From the record of the seismograph, it could not be told whether the shook was north or south; but there is no region in the north of Mexico where the shocks could be common in Mexico. We are able to determine the distance with reasonable precision. This quake was 1300 miles away.
The "exact time of the disturbance," said Mr. Kester, "was a few seconds after noon. The primary shock was at 12:25:48, the secondary at 12:29:17, the main wave at 12:31:05. The last noticeable wave occurred at 12:49:"
The last record of an earthquake by the University was on June 2nd. The seismograph was neither damaged then nor during the present quake, as is the case when waves of violent intensity occur.
VAGRANCY CHARGE FOR PI—MUDDY FEET, CAUSE
Lack of Jewelry Does Rest.
When Pi padded his weary way homeward one day last week he grew tired, and exercising his usual method of peaceful recreation he lay down to rest on the front porch of the nearest house. Since Pi was worried as to the outcome of the investigation of his deportment in Oral Interpretation Class, he sought to drown his troubles in sleep. Now Pi had not been careful about making his toilet this particular morning and muddled up this particular piazza he had chosen to convert into a gentleman's rest room, thereby arousing the wrath of the lady of the house.
When Pi finally woks up there stood the biggest policeman he had ever seen, "Woof!" said Pi. But the policeman asked questions of the woman of the house; and as she completely ignored Pi's friendship Pi found himself facing a vagrancy charge. The offender decided to fight it out on the grounds instead of in court, realizing that a big White Bull Dog, acting as his own attorney, would have more show out of the court room than it. Just then the Law brought in Indictment No. 2 when he discovered that Pi failed to wear the necklace that all dogs of good legal standing wear. That little matter of jewelry had never troubled Pi, although once a year the Pi Upsilon fraternity had usually managed to adorn him with the token of their regards. Pi suddenly remembered that they had failed to do so this year.
“You are pinched,” said the Law Once in court Pi threw himself on the mercy of the Court and began the peaceful “penetration” act. He succeeded in keeping from behind the bars by his diplomacy and had nearly got his case thrown out of court by making friends with the city officials when in came several representatives of the fraternity who insisted on paying Pi's fine of two dollars, in order to keep the scandal from the naners.
K. U. CATALOGS READY FOR DISTRIBUTION NOW
The University catalog is now being published in thirteen sections, one for each school. Eleven of the sections are now ready for distribution. The other two, No. 12, on Special Activities and No. 13, the Register of Degrees, are still in the hands of the State Printer. After all these sections are out, a general catalog, containing them all will be issued.
Howard Blackmar on Border
Blackman on BORDER Howard Blackman, son of Dean F. W. Blackmar, and a former student of the University, is now sergeant of the first class in Co. G. First Regiment of the New Mexican National Guards. He has been stationed on the border at Columbus for two months. He received his military training at the University of Wisconsin, and was in the United States Forest Reserve service when called to join his company.
BEHIND THE SCENES ?
Sunburned Daffodil Was Cross and Clamored for Cold Cream
KING LED K. U. SOLDIERS
Supers Were Startled by Order to "go Get the Bier."
There was nobody needed behind the wings but the actors. Dressed as they were in rich varicolored kimonas with not an article of American furnishings about them and the peneleus of incense constantly floating in the air, one had only to close his eyes and be in the "Land of Flowers."
There wasn't anything behind the scenes at "Yellow Jacket," because the invisible? property man needed all the properties on the stage with him. The platform behind the line of maple and willow boughs that formed the wings was bare, the usual property man was missing, the caller was missing, the dressing rooms were missing; Snow Hall served as a warehouse room.
When Chee Moo descended from Heaven she disturbed a pleasant dream by addressing me in common every day Hill language. Daffodil yelled for the cold cream every time he left the stage. He had spent the afternoon in Potter's Lake and his shoulders and arms were quite susceptible to the pressure of the heavily embroidered rose kimona. One of the attendants of the invisible? property man, insisted on encouraging Daffodil frequently with an affectionate slap on the sunburned shoulders.
Plum-blossom was tatting between appearances and there were whispers of a trousseau. The heir to the Yellow Jacket read to her from "The Lute of Jade," a love poem from the Japanese. After Woo Hoo Git found his wife, Taftahi. Her death was deposed and the Chorus had last bow to the audience, real oriental tea was served to the Coburn family of 30 actors.
When King Richard appeared Saturday night he was accustomed by a host of soldiers, twelve of whom are enrolled in K. U. "The heat was awful," they said behind the wings. And no wonder, none of them were broad shouldered enough to wear the soldier's garb and that necessitated a sleeve with shoulder belt. The helmets were two sizes too large, the required padding. The one soldier carrying a stick in place of a sword persisted in getting in the front.
"Go get the bier," was the order of the property man, "You follow right after the bier" were the orders to the superiors; the stage hands came on with a bier.
The supers were playing a childhood game, "Follow the Leader." Each one was given an actor to follow and to imitate. That wasn't bad at all until one court lady, enrolled in the Summer Session, became enamored with train as she made her last appearance. She shed real tears over the blast.
King Richard smoked good cigars as he made frequent surveys of the heavens and discussed the latest reports from the front and Fort Riley. A sharp flash of lightning and a hurried consultation caused a hurried consultation of the land that the property man, some whispered directions and orders to cut the play.
MILITARY LIFE PLEASES
VISITOR AT FORT RILEY
"I feel much better about military life," said Anna Rearick this morning, after visiting at Fort Riley over Sunday." The sanitary conditions are above reproach, the hospitals corps looks after persons needing any medical attention, the boys have good things to eat; and best of all, the boys are very enthusiastic about their work, have a great deal of admiration for their officers, and are very proud of the Lawrence companies. They are required to do considerable with it."
Miss Rearick was visiting her nephew, Chester Rearick, who is assistant cook in his company.
The mobilization of the Kansas National Guard has caused Leon Gibbens, a summer school student to withdraw. He left for his home at Nickerson to take charge of his father's business while his father, captain of a machine gun corps, is with his company.
Margorie Templin, c'15, daughter of Dean Templin, is taking graduata work this summer in the University of Chicago. She took special work during the past year under Dr. John Sundwall in physiology and anatomy.