UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOLUME XIII.
MAKING A NEWSPAPER
"Racing the Deadline" Coming to K. U. to Show How Big Daily is Edited
COMBINES ROMANCE ALSO
Shows Difficulties of Young Reporter Making a Scoop
NUMBER 134.
"Racing the Deadline," a film containing many scenes taken from the office of the Chicago Tribune, will be shown in Fraser Chapel Saturday night at 7:15 o'clock. Pop Dance begins in Robinson Gymnasium immediately after movie show.
"Racing the Deadline," a thrilling motion picture, showing the experiences of a young newspaper reporter in getting a big scoop in time to make the last edition will be brought to the University of Kansas for one exhibition Saturday night. The picture will be run in Fraser Chapel where a new up-to-date motion-picture machine has just been installed.
This film was made at great cost and trouble and the scenario was especially written so that in connection with the romantic plot some of the difficulties of getting the news on a metropolitan paper could be shown.
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS, WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, APRIL 12, 1916.
SCENES TAKEN IN REAL OFFICE
Every detail of the mammoth task of making a thirty-two page newspaper which contains as much reading matter as a novel and one edition of which requires as much paper as several thousand books, will be shown by the authors of the scenes were taken in the newspaper offices of the Chicago Tribune, one of the largest American dailies.
At various times during the action the city editor of the Tribune and his large staff of reporters are shown working at top speed to whip a big story into shape before press time. In cities of getting information, photographic shows, the mechanical task of getting hundreds of thousands of words set up in type and ready to be printed will be pictured. And the process by which pictures of wrecks are photographed and printed in the extra editions ten minutes later will be realistically portrayed from seven views, each one coming up in Chicago's accidents such as the Eastland disaster.
A ROMANCE WITH IT
Then the pictures will show the battery of mammoth automatic web presses humming monotonously as they throw out over a thousand papers a minute—faster than human skill can count them.
But this is the cutest part of the film. Interwoven with the whole scenario is a romance of a young reporter who goes through tremendous difficulties to get his scoop into the press, and then a name from a phrase common in newspaper offices; the deadline is the time set at which the last pages close and stories coming in two seconds after the foreman of the composing room orders the page sent to the stereotypers cannot be printed. The reporter is raking against time to get information in before the fatal minute comes.
EXPERT OPERATOR AND MUSIC
The films have been leased for one night by the local chapter of Sigma Delta Chi, national journalism fraternity, in order to give the students and faculty of the University an opportunity to satisfy the universal curiosity to know how a metropolitan newspaper is made. Students will learn about descriptive music, will begin in Fraser chapel at 7:15 o'clock on that attending may go to the Pop Dance in the gymnasium which will begin immediately after the pictures have been finished. To defray expenses of bringing the motion-pictures to the University, a charge of 10 cents will be made at the door. Marshall Briggs has arranged good point service which will mean bright, clear pictures and a licensed operator has been employed to run the pictures thus insuring the best of service and quick changes between reels.
Contents in the pocket of a K. U. woman: a chocolate bar, powder box and puff, "K" book, a pencil stick for use in connection with "K" book, one blank check, a Lincoln penny. The small boy with cramped pockets has a long brown arm that comes to using a pocket as if it were a roller-top desk.
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Easter vacation consists of
the Friday before and the Monday
after Easter Sunday. School will be dismissed at 5:30 o'clock
and parents will resume Tuesday morning,
April 25 at 8:30 o'clock.
Frank Strong, Chancellor.
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Plain Tales from the Hill
Students of mining engineering are experimenting and testing tons of coal from the penitentiary mine at Lansing. The coal is being put through the coal washer in the department's laboratory.
Naomi Nelson, '16 College, has left the University to take a position in the high school at Sahema for the rest of her career as teacher of German and mathematics.
The door opened softly and they entered.
She stopped and he glanced over her shoulder to look for seats but in the whole room there were no two together. From the class came sub-ringles. She blushed and they both made for near, though separated, seats.
Miss Brown's 9:30 o'clock Rhetoric II section had been successful for the first time this semester in separating the young couple.
The Rev. S. Ollinger, student pastor of the Presbyterian church, went to Great Bend, Kansas, last week to dedicate a $40,000 church. From there he goes to Solomon and Clay Center to attend two Presbyterian meetings.
The boys rooming at the City Y. M. C. A. have established a rule that all members shall chapel at least once a week in a body. The day for all to attend is Friday.
A sophomore on the hill carries five arms, not to protect himself from anyone, he says, but from mere force of habit.
Bernard Gillespie, who was in the University last fall, wrote that he was invited a week for a visit. He is interested in a copper mine at Phoenix, Arizona.
Another way devised by Prof. H. A. Lorenz for getting work out of his gymnasium classes is to offer treats to the enterprising members who will be the hand marks on the backs of some of the lazy ones, when they play swat.
Alpha Xi Delta sorority entertained their patronesses and the parents of the town girls, with a tea Sunday afternoon.
Spring suit and summer hat
The snow comes down And how we frowm
Spring suit and summer hat,
Trees are budding and all that
The snow comes down
But the weather is king for a'that
Mary Smith and Viola Engel have given out invitations for a house party during the Easter vacation, at their home in Abilene. Since this is the fourth house party that has beer announced for Abilene, it ought to be a lively place during the holidays.
George Strickland, of Wellington,
has been the guest of John Fogarty,
'18 College, for the past week. He
 came to attend the 'Phi Pi
Society's Saturday evening.
He is a brother of Charles Strickland,
who was in school two years ago.
Prof. W, W. W. Davis says he wishes that we could have as rosy a future as the land-agents picture for the lands which they have for sale.
Harold Higley is visiting at the Sigma Nu house for a few days. Hig hasn't changed since he was graduated last spring and the battle with the cold, cold world has left no noticeable impressions on him.
Earl Bennett, '16 College, who had an operation performed on one leg at the beginning of the second semester, is still at the University Hospital, but is now able to be up and about. Bennett says that it seems fine to be able to get about again and he hopes to be able to leave the hospital soon. So far as can be told at the present time the operation has proved a success.
The electrical engineers have a unique bulletin. They keep it lighted with small electric lights.
Provided there is no high water this spring, students who will go home at the end of the semester by way of Kansas City, may get a taste of a swift Inter-urban ride. According to the city's transportation purpose of building the temporary bridge upon which the cars will cross into north Lawrence, the Inter-urban will not carry passengers until this bridge is completed. It is estimated that this will take two months unless the workers are delayed by high water.
William Studer was "blow up" by a gas furnace during the last cold spell. As he started to light the furnace an explosion of escaping gas blow out into his face, knocking him down. He was in school the next day with a singed eye brow and a burned wrist.
"The cars will be nearly as large an ordinary coach and will make better than passenger time," said the responder of the Heima Interurban company.
Harry Jenkins, a former student in the University, was in Lawrence last week. Jenkins is a senior in the Kansas City School of Law.
Hamilton Hall Will Hold Dressing Rooms and Showers for Athletes
NEW BUILDING GROWING MINERS' DAY IS NOW ON
TO BE READY BY MAY
Accommodation for High School Track Men Provided for
Construction work on the new McCook Field dressing sheds - Hamilton Hall- which started this week, is progressing rapidly and by May 1 the new building costing approximately two thousand dollars will be completed, according to Manager W. O. Hamilton.
The new field house will fill a long felt need for more adequate and better equipped dressing rooms at McCook Field. Although having the largest seating capacity of any University field or stadium in the Missouri, Conference, and round the best player playing field in the Valley, the K. U. field has never had dressing facilities enough for visiting athletes, at even intercollegiate contests, and when high school players were contesting it was practically impossible to provide dressing rooms for half the number. The new field house provides the time for the state high school track meet May 6 is expected to provide ample room for all the visiting intercollegiate athletes.
Workmen have begun to lay out the ground work for the new club-house on Hamilton Field which is to take the place of the sheds on McCook. The new clubhouse is to be forty feet long by forty wide and is to be two stories high. The first floor will be used for sports facilities and for biking tables. The second floor will be open for use as a chalk talk room and for any athletic meetings that may occur. The building will be of frame and will be just south of the sheds.
SCHNEIDER TO LEAD
Famous European Director Will Assist Club Tomorrow
Prof. Max Hammerstein Osor Schneider has been obtained at great expense to lead the University Glee Club in one selection Thursday night. Professor Schneider has an international reputation as the leader of great concert companies, and was observed in a private money in night letters to New York, where the great conductor is waiting until the European War blows over.
Night
"We are certainly fortunate in being able to prescut Prof. Max Hammersstein Oscar Schneider to a Lawrence audience," said Manager Saulutter this morning. "He was rather reluctant about coming, but says now that he has decided, he will give us his very best."
The concert to be given Thursday evening at 8 o'clock in Fraser Hall, is the annual Spring concert of the club. Student enterprise ticets will admit, or ticetex may be bought at the door later 2pm.
The members of the club who take part in the concert are: first tenor, Jacques Boeckel, Eric Thomas Clung, Eber Joly; second tenor, Sautter, George Baerg, Maurice Darby, Chas, Sturtevant; first bass, Marie Smith, Ora Holmes, John Hamm, David Perry. "bass" bass Fred Pausch, Dick Gelben, Warr Barber, Haush Mecinness.
After the business meeting and the installation ceremonies, the outgoing council will give the new girls a spread. The girls to be installed are: Marianne Blyth, vice-president; Merle Cross, vice-president from Fine Arts School; Hazel Carson, secretary; Katherine Reding, treasurer; Grace Beckley and Blanch Simons, senior representatives; Pattie Hart, junior representatives; Millie Carter and Lucile Nowlin, sophomore representations.
The W, S. G. A. is holding installation of the newly elected officers this afternoon in Mrs. Brown's rooms. Both the old council and the new one will be present for this ceremony and girls will each take the oath of office.
The blue grass is quite green everywhere over the lamps now with the exception of the ground in front of Green Hall where the Law students have stamped it out during the winter.
The Architectural Engineering Society met last night at the Kanza house to discuss plans for Engineers' Day. The following committee was appointed for engagements for Engineers' Day; Nigg, Sharrman, Cadmus and Pickering.
W, S. G. A. INSTALLS NEWLY ELECTED OFFICERS TODAY
Miss Ruth Lambertson, of Efingham, visited friends on the Hill Saturday and Sunday.
Lectures Given by Prominent Experts at Meetings Today
BANQUET IN GYM TONIGHT
Prof. Haworth to be Toastmaster at Feast
A crowd that filled every seat in the lecture room in Haworth Hall heard the first lecture by Dr. Henry M. Parker, who gave an illustrated talk this morning. Dr. Payne gave an illustrated talk on his trip through Klondike, Japan and Siberia recently. He also showed several slides illustrating what happened to the Indians in the Klondike and Siberian mines.
The meeting started at 2:30 o'clock in Marvin Hall. The problems confronting the state mine at Lansing were discussed by Levi Day, superintendent of the mine. The second moon was R. B. T. Kiliani, of New York. He discussed fine crushing and its effect on ore dressing.
An illustrated talk on "Kansas Men that Might Have Been," was given by A. A. Knapp of the Department of Labor and Industry at Topeka. Mr. Knapp had had much opportunity for employment in the department at Toneko.
Warding Codding, of the Kansas State Penitentiary at Lansing, spoke later in the afternoon on "Problems at Lansing."
The last speaker of the afternoon was Dr. Payne.
The First Annual Meeting of Mining Engineers, as it is styled officially, will close this evening with a banquet in Robinson Gym. It will be held at the University of Florida faculty from Haworth Hall and the students in mining engineering.
The toastmaster of the evening will be Prof. Erasmus Haworth, head of the department of geology. Toasts will be given by R. B. B. T. Kiliani, of New York; A. K. Knapp, of Topeka and Dr. H. W. Payne, of New York.
PUSH CLEAN-UP DAY
Class Presidents Favor Plan and Promise Co-operation —Everyone Interested
The students favor a campus cleanup day and are willing to do their share of the work if we are to be held accountable even by the students at the college of civic welfare.
C. A. Randolph, senior president,
says: "You can't quote me too
strongly. I am greatly in favor of
the plan to clean the campus."
Linus Fitzgerald, president of the sophomore class, says: "It's a great idea and I think all of the sophomores will back me in making the plan a reality." He will willing to put on her overalls and shoulder the rake for the occasion."
Blondie Jones, junior president,
says: "I'm strong for it. I have talked to many students and the sentiment is serious to do some honest work for the University. I believe all that makes is the system to make a successful team under the supervision of Supt. John M. Shea or if would be possible, to have the landscape artists here for the occasion. I think that the appointment of fifteen or twenty lecturers from the students would make the movement more complete. The students need feedback and I am sure that they will be more than glad to help out in this way.
"I am opposed, however, to May 1, as the day for the cleanup. It is already a holiday, and as this is the case, I'm fraid that the attempt to clean up would fail. Then, too, the day is Monday and the students will go home and not come back until Tuesday. I think the Chancellor should appreciate the movement enough to support a Saturday or a Sunday as a holiday for the purpose."
James Pringle, freshman president,
says: "It is a good plan and I am
sure that the freshmen will be willing
to do their part in the clean-up."
Leland Thompson, president of the student council, endorses the movement in the following: "The plan is a good one and I am heartily in favor to run-up. I am willing to get out and do the 'heavy' to make it a success."
Blanche Mullen, president of the W. S. G. A., says that she likes the idea and assures us that the women of the school will assist their part to make the affair a success.
John Scribner, of Saffordville, and a student on the Hill last year, attended the Pi Kappa Alpha formal Friday night.
William Baerg was recently appointed instructor to assist Dr. Herrick in economic entomology at Cornell University.
TORCH SOCIETY SELLS
FRENCH WAR MEDALS
Have you seen those war medals that are worn by almost everyone this week? They will make excellent souvenirs for your "K" book to remind you in later years that you were in the University during the great war.
The medals are designed by Lalique. The French artist, and represent a woman clasping two little children in her arms. The design comes from the intense feeling that the French orphans must be saved for the naition.
A medal may be had for a quarter twenty cents of which goes to the general fund for supporting French chicle cheese under the auspices of the Torch society.
More than two hundred have already been sold among the students," said Alice Coors, of Torch, last night. "We want to make Friday the big climax in the campaign. There will be a lot of people going to the medals on that day so that every person will be given an opportunity to get one."
ANTI-PILL LEAGUE WILL HEAR ABOUT CIGARETTES
The lid is on tight in Lawrence in regard to the sale of cigarettes, since the K. U. Anti-cigarette League was organized; but previous to this it was possible for anyone to get cigarettes, even minors.
The K. U. Anti-Cigarette League which was organized two weeks ago has developed into an organization with over one hundred and fifty members that the membership will soon include every man in the University.
Prof. Charles Cochran, of the School of Engineer<sup>g</sup> will lecture on "The Evils of Cigarette Smoking," at a meeting of the K U. Anti-Cigarette League, Wednesday, at 7:30 p. m. in Fraser.
The object of the League is to do away with smoking in the student body, and they have succeeded in in-
creasing the great many to stop the use of tobacco.
The members of the K. U. Anti-Cigarette League hope that public opinion will keep the merchants of Lawrence from selling cigarettes in the future.
WALK ON TOOTHPICKS IF YOU LIKE
"That toothpick heels are the great factors in breaking down women's arches and making them flat-footed is not true," commented Dr. Alice Goetz. Only nurses do we find the greatest number, three per-cent, who are flat-footed and this is due to the fact that these women must be conducive to their work and doing other heavy work. Very few women here at the University have broken arches and many of them have worn high heels for years.
It Wont Hurt—Your Arches.
"These toothpick heels affect a woman's nerves, however. The whole weight is thrust forward on the toes in an unnatural position. This works on one's nerves and some cases of hysteria and other nervous trouble have been traced back to the high heeled shoe.
“In speaking of women's feet, it is remarkable how many of the women here, have distorted toes and imperfectly shaped feet. This is due to the fact that these shoes have been unable to get a good shoe-fit in the stores of their small home towns, and necessity has demanded that they wear ill-shaped shoes. Of course some women heroically pinch their feet for the good of the cause, but often frequently the calls for different kinds of corn solvent at the drug stores.”
New Engine for Power Plant C. E. Hayne of Kansas City, general assistant for the International Harvester Company in Oklahoma and interviewing Dean P. F., Walker of the School of Engineering in regard to installing a distillate burning engine in the University power plant. The engine is to be used in connection with student and research work by the staffs of the department of engineering.
Professor Nevin accompanied each number with an explanation of its meaning. He has made a study of Indian music by living with the Black Crow and the other tribes in the northern Rocky Mountain states for several years.
Prof. A. Nevin in Church Recital
Prof. A. Nevin in Church Recital Prof. Arthur Nevin, of the School of Fine Arts, gave a recital of Indian music at the Unitarian church for the Music Club, Wednesday afternoon.
P. W. Classen, formerly state entomologist here, and William Baerg, an old K. u. Man, who are graduate students at Cornell University, pledged Gamma Alpha, a graduate scientific fraternity recently.
Chase Johnson, who has been attending the medical school at Chicago University, has been forced to return home on account of sickness. Mr. Johnson will be taking work at Chicago this semester. However, he hopes to return in the fall.
A CO-OP STORE AT LAST
Student Council Last Night Approved the Preliminary Plans
STOCK OWNED BY FACULTY
Dividend Will Go to Purchasers, However
"The Co-operative Book Store of the University of Kansas will be incorporated under the laws of the state of Kansas with a capital stock of $600,000. The bookstore will be $5.00, and the 100 shares will all be held by faculty members, who will have the control of the store through a board of directors of seven members, five of whom shall be faculty members, four of whom shall be Men's Student Council, and one a student chosen from the student body at large by the stockholders.
At last the University of Kansas is to have a co-operative book store for the benefit of the students and faculty members. The plans for the organization of the venture were discussed at the meeting of the Men's Student Council last night and the report of the committee headed by Neal Moyle, accepted with a few minor alterations, in the hands of the Chancellor, who will submit them for approval to the Board of Administration.
BE IN FRASER HALL
The bookstore for the first year will undoubtedly be the first room in Fraser Hall. There is no special building in sight for the store this next year unless the Board of Administration makes an appropriation.
The stockholders will not receive dividends from the store according to the amount of stock they hold. Every dividend can be drawn an annual dividend of five or more for each stock in the store and whatever profit remains will be distributed among the student and faculty customers of the store according to the amount of their purchases. The books and supplies required by most students are a regular market price. The faculty stockholders may own more than one share of the stock, but no stockholder will be allowed more than one vote, nor will any stockholder be allowed disclosure of his share or shares without the consent of the directors of the store.
HAVE A BOOK EXCHANGE
A book exchange will in all probabilities be run in connection with the book store, selling books for students on a commission that are one this year. Whatever profits are from the book exchange will be applied toward the expenses of running the store.
AMOUNT OF FUND NOT KNOWN
Just how much money will be required for the starting of the book store is not defied, known as yet. The capital stock will be raised in when the venture is launched, only a dollar or two of each five being necessary to start out on. As the business grows and the scope of the store increases the remaining capital may be called in by the board of directors as they may deem it necessary for the profits may be set aside each year by the directors to serve as a sinking fund.
The plans adopted were the result of much investigation into plans used by other schools. The plan is practically sure of the approval of the Boehringer Ingelheim that much gained, according to New Ireland who has been living co-operative book store for the past few weeks, the rest will be easy. There will be no trouble in subscribing the stock from the company and getting student interest in the store as well as a promise of rebates at the end of the year will ving the necessary trade.
Harold Huntman, special Fine Arts, has been spending the last few days at his home in Falls City, Nebraska. Huntman went home for the purpose of voting and since the Prohibition Law carried in Nebraska by only three votes, he feels that his trip was not in vain.
Announcement
University Convocation will be held Friday morning at 10:30 a.m. Ten thirty classes will meet on Saturday and 11:30 classes at 12 o'clock
Frank Strong, Chancellor.
The Weather
The Forecast: Fair tonight and Thursday, cooler tonight and in east and south portion Thursday.
MORNING PRAYERS
Week of April 10 to 14
Leader, the Rev. Arthur Braden.
Subject: "Soul Power."
Friday: "Who is this?"