UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
WALKER TOURS STATE
Head of School of Engineering Studies Industrial Possibilities For Kansas Cities
STUDENTS TO MAKE COKE
Dean Will Go to Mechanicals Meeting In New Orleans Later
Following a week's tour of inven-
tigation in southeastern Kansas
Dean P. F. Walker of the School of
Engineering yesterday announced his
confidence that the industrial posi-
tion has turned positive with success as urged by Governor Arthur Capper in an address at Pittsburg last week.
Dean Walker's work was part of an extended manufacturing survey being carried on by the Engineering Society of the University. This survey is for the purpose of ascertaining not only the extent and condition of present facilities but also the possibility for new manufactures and the possibility of cheaper fuel.
Coke, a necessary fuel in much manufacturing, costs approximately $2.50 a ton at Pittsburgh, Pa., or Burlington, N.J., for $800 per ton; $4 per ton a to吨 to Kansas.
Dean Walker said the department of mining engineering will start soon on a series of tests to determine the practicability of making coke from southern Kansas coal. These tests will be worked out in connection with the Department of Transportation materials. If a washing process can be worked out which will remove sulphur an important fuel problem may be solved for Kansas manufacturers.
In addition, if a good grade of coke can be produced, according to Dean Walker, the market opening to it will cover most of the territory west of the Missouri river and perhaps as far east as the Mississippi.
"I have been touching most frequently on the possibility of successful leather tanneries," said Dean Walker in discussing the outlook for more industries for the state. "Such tanneries would utilize hides from the packing plants. I believe that oak bark can be secured in the section near the state's capital, sufficient and suitable for the tanning businesses in Kansas City, Kansas and Wichita offer the best locations for tanning plants.
"Pittsburgh is a logical place for a cotton mill where there is a supply of foreign labor of the type needed in cotton plants," continued the dean. "And there is the possibility of a sugar refinery at Pittsburgh also."
During his trip in southeastern Kansas, Dean Walker in addition to investigating general conditions, se- tained data regarding the fountain and machin- e building. Cherryvale, Independence, Coffeville and Pittsburg. Investigators working in co-operation with Professor Walker have gathered material regarding the cement, glass, brick and tile, salt, and other industrial plants in Kansas.
"In talks to the business men of Iola, Independence and Pittsburg," said Dean Walker, "I tried to make it plain to all that the School of Engineering is in a position to carry out its mission. And I pointed to the point I stressed with especial care was that the University would take up no problem that was not big enough to have a significance to large communities or to the entire state. Anything that results obtained are to be open to any or all interested groups in the state."
Dean Walker left last night on another trip to gather information. He will spend two days in St. Louis studying the leather tanning business of the American industries of other industries. Later in the week Professor Walker will go to New Orleans to attend the spring meeting of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, where the question of whether he will be discussed and papers on the utilization of the natural gas supply for manufacturing will be read
K. U. Alumni Banquet
Kansas Citians were given a sample of "Rock Chalk" Saturday night that reminded them of the days when the annual Jayhawker-Tiger gridron battle took place in the city. The event was the annual banquet of the Kansas City Alumni. Two hundred alumni attended the meeting.
Among the speakers were R. R. Brewster, Charles M. Blackmar, Prof. J. N. Van der Vries and Cussin' T Smith of Hiawata. Daniel S. Anderson acted as toastmaster. The menu cards were a feature, being filled with humorous business cards of Kansas City Alumni.
Mu Phi Upson has invited about two hundred friends to the chapter house Wednesday evening, from 7 to 9 o'clock, for an informal musical.
On Wednesday evening, the local chapter will have been established five years. They are intending to build a house next year. The proceeds of the evening will be added to their building fund.
EXPERTS DISAGREE ON
AGE OF MOUNT OREAD
How old are the rocks of Mount Orend? Make your own guess, for it is a case where experts disagree. Some of them think that the top of the Hill is only 3,500,000 years old, while others insist that it has attained the comparatively mature age of 7,000,000 years.
Geologically, the limestone that crops out on the Hill is known as the Oread Limestone of the Pennsylvania period. The shale that lies under it carries the name of the Lawrence shale, and belongs to the same period.
Many different rocks and minerals are found in very small quantities in the Earth. Rock types that find small lumps of zinc, barite, flint and occasionally lead and iron ore. One student found a piece of lead ore that was from North College Hill several years ago.
Most of the load and zinc deposits occur at a lower elevation, however, and the finding of small lumps does necessarily indicate valuable deposits.
MINERS MEET TOMORROW
Banquet Added to Program-
Meeting Starts at 10:30
A banquet for the faculty and students of Haworth Hall has been added to the program for Miners' Day tomorrow. The banquet will be held in Robinson Gymnasium at 6:30 o'clock and will close a busy day of lectures and talks on opening and geological studies. Prof. Ernest Hale has headed the department of geology has been selected to act as toastmaster for the occasion.
Toasts will be responded to as follows: "Changes in Ore Dressing," by R. B. T. Kiliani; "Sure Pop and the Safety Scouts," by A. A. Knapp and "Mining in the Frozen North," by Dr. H. M. Payne.
Two additional speakers for the afternoon were secured this morning. They are Warden Codding of the Kansas state penitentiary at Lansing and Levi Day, superintendent of the state mine at Lansing.
The full program for the day as announced this morning follows;
10:30 a. m., Haworth Hall, Prof. E.
Haworth, chairman.
"Across Japan and Siberia in War Time," Dr. Henry M. Payne, consult engineer of New York, illustrated 2:30 p.m. Mayfin Hall, Proof A.
2:30 p. m., Marvin Hall. Prof. A. C. Terrill, chairman.
"Efficient Crushing," illustrated by R. B. T. Killian, of New York
"Kansas Men That Might Have Been," illustrated, by A. A. Knapp, of the Department of Labor and Industry at Topeka.
"The Convict Problem," by Warden Coding.
"Mining Coal at Lansing" by Mr. Levi Day of the Lansing mine,
by Dr. Henry M. Payne, illustrated.
6:30 p. m., Robinson Gymnasium.
Banquet for the visiting speakers, the faculty of Haworth Hall and students in the department of mining engineering.
Prof. E. Haworth, Toastmaster.
Will Have One More Chance to Order Invitations
The orders taken will be for paper bound invitations, leather being out of the country to be ordered at the price, and the refusal of the leather company with which Mr. Cress is doink business, to supply any more invitations under the old contract price.
Seniors and graduates will have one more opportunity to order commencement invitations on Wednesday afternoon, April 12th at the Fraser Hall check stand. From 1:30 to 3:30; an Elite Ed. Program, secretary of the invitation committee. This will be positively the last chance to obtain invitations.
Under the contract which Mr. Criss made with the company in January, he was to take 550 leather invitations, whether he sold them or not. The 550 invitations have all been sold and no more leather invitations may be received unless someone should desire to dispose of some at a little profit to himself.
Mr. Cress has sold 400 more invitations to barbs than to fraternity students. The number of men and women underlying them has been about equal.
The annual exhibit of the Lawrence Camera Club was opened to the public Tuesday in Rooms 302 and 304, Administration Building. This club has been in existence 17 years, and its art collection for this year is one of four exhibitions it has one of, fenced. The exhibit will last two weeks and during this time Prof. W. A. Griffith will give several lectures about the pictures.
CAMERA AERIAL CUISSION OPUÈN
ADMINISTRATORY BUILTIN
PHI PSIS WIN 2 TO
Battle With Acacias in First Pan-hellenic Game of
Season
It took an extra inning to decide the winner of the first Pan-hellenic baseball game yesterday when the Phi Psis and Acacias met on Hamilton Field. But the Phi Psis came back strong in this inning and scored the winning run before any outs were made setting up a 2 to 1 score.
the game was played throughout in five leagues, in few for fraternity games and bits were not very plentiful. Both pitchers were backed up by good support, and both were ground for the Acacias and Connellly, a freshman, worked for the Phi Pais.
The Acacias got their lone run in the second round after a couple of hits and an error opened the way. The Phi Pais got their first run in the first inning by a group of hits. In the final round Graham drove the ball to left field for three bases and scored on Sproull's single a moment later.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
The Sigma Xi banquet will be held Thursday night, April 13, at I. O. O. Hall. The members, as well as the students, will be wherever the case may be) will be there.
El Atene will meet Thursday evening from 7:30 to 9:30 at 1106 Ohio instead of from 3:30 to 4:30 as usual. Students in Spanish are invited to attend.
I will pay two and a half cents for
the book, mining edition.
Professor Terrill.
The Snow Zoology club will meet Tuesday at 7:30 in the Biology library.
Prof. U. G. Mitchell will speak on the subject, "Is there a scientific basis for religion," at the Y. W. C. A. meeting Tuesday afternoon at 4:30 at Myers Hall. Nellie Kennedy, 16 College, will be leader of the meeting. All women of the University are urged to be present.
Black Helmets meeting at Pi Kappa
Alpha house, Tuesday evening at 8:00
The International Polity Club will meet Tuesday evening, April 11, at the Phi Kapa Psi house, 1140 La street. There will be an important business meeting after which Mr Roland Hugins of Cornell University will speak to the club. Meeting called at 7:30 prompt.
Shinx Society meets Tuesday night at 7:30 o'clock. Pi Upsilon chapter house. Important business. Every member be present.
- No Dramatic Club meeting tonight.
Postponed for one week.
The descriptive astronomy class for last semester will meet for observation at the Physics Building Wednes-
day at 7:30 if the sky is clear.
Seniors are requested to call at the check stand and order their caps and gowns before the Easter holidays.
Black Helmets meet at Pi Kappa Black house tonight at 7:30. Be there!
Sigma Delta Chi, tonight, 8 o'clock Beta house.
FOR NEW MEMORIAL IDEA
Seniors Urge Planting of Trees and Shrubs as Gift
A new idea in class memorials will be brought out when the senior class meets some time next month to determine what the memorial shall be. The idea is to appropriate the money for laying of the flowers of the campus according to the plans in the hands of the Senate Committee in charge of that work.
The gift would be a tangible one, for according to the plan worked out by the Senior memorial committee and in preparation of the institution of ground would be taken and trees planted according to the plans, and a small tablet would be placed in the ground at the extremities stating "In this room were the gifts of the Class of 1916."
The sentiment of the majority of the class as expressed thus far indicates that the pooling of funds of the various classes and then leaving a fine Chairman Mack is himself highly in favor of this plan, but according to his statements the Senior Committee cannot get together with the other class on these issues on any definite plan of action, therefore the plan can not be worked out.
Coach Olcott wants 25 more men out for spring football practice every afternoon. Spring training lasts until April 20.
E. F. Stimpson of the department of Physics has received a letter from the Bureau of Standards at Washington to request measures officials of the state to attend the Eleventh Annual Conference of the United States Weights and Measures Association, to be held at the Bureau of Standards at Washington.
TO MROMOTE UNIFORMITY OF WEIGHTS AND MEASURES
This conference is held for the purpose of promoting uniform practice in the inspection of weights and measures, and to induce legislation in respect to inspection of weights and the inspection in all states. The terms of this resolution provide that all types of weighing and measuring apparatus shall be approved by the Board of Inspection, and that issue a certificate of approval which is good throughout the United States.
CALLS FOR HURDLERS
Hamilton Says More Freshmen Are Needed in Varsity Track Squad
"Not enough men are working out for the annual spring interclass track and field meet to be held on McCook field April 29," said Coach W. O. Hammond, especially are not taking as much interest as they should. We are sadly in need of hurdles, and the best way to get them is to find men in the freshman class who are willing to work with our students to make Varsity material, for next year.
"There are but a few feels left before the interclass games, and it is time that the men were getting into shape. The Varsity men are not answering the call for the outdoor meets spirit I would like to have them show."
K. U. meets Nebraska at Lawrence on May 5, and the showings made in this meet will determine largely who will play in the team for the remainder of the season.
Coaches Hamilton and Patterson will be at McCook Field every evening to coach men who intend entering the interclass contests. All men, es- tended, are expected to advantage of this opportunity of get-expert advice about their events.
There is an urgent need of hurdles and pole vaulters, and a good chance in these events for any man who has reached the peak. There is willing to get out and work hard.
"Aint it the truth," said the cynical bystander, "that some of the professors in the University of Kansas are still the real, genuine pedagogues we have so often read about?" When attention of the professors and instructors was directed to holding classes and were made that the whistle blows off time, he be depended upon. And the clock mechanic stated that the whistle would not blow if the clock was off-time. So there you are.
What is a fellow going to do when he arrives in Lawrence, from the Sunny South, prepared for Spring, without an overcoat and is greeted with a snowstorm? This is the question that Richard Brown, of Pawnee, Oklahoma, who is visiting Oklahoma friends here, asked Friday morning.
Bertha Smith, '16 College, spent the last of the week at her home in Kansas
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HIGH SCHOOL DEBATERS
COMING FRIDAY, MAY
Resolved, That the Federal Government should own and operate the public telephone and telegraph systems in the state of Kansas to debate in the Kansas high school bating leagues next year. The debate for the state championship this year will be held here Friday, May 5. For more information, see the question of the Monroe Doctrine.
Four teams remain in the running for the championship. Hoxie, winner of the championship, is teased Minnesota, winner in the Northland of the seventh defeated Newton,
eighth district champions. Rosedead of the second district defeated Atchison county highs, first district champions, and Caney of the third district defeated Eureka of the fourth district. Caney against Rosedead and Hoxie against Ashland will compete in semi-finals next week.
The following new directors have been chosen for next year: first district, G. W. Salissury, prin. Atchison county h. s. Edfingham; fourth district, C. F. Ferris, supt. of schools, Eureka; fifth district, C. A. Yoeman, superintendent of schools, Minneapolis.
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Indestructo Trunks Bags and Suit Cases Sold Exclusively by Johnson & Carl
Usually
flowers go up for Easter. An advance of 25 per cent in cost is the custom. But
This Time
we shall make you the same prices for Easter as at other times. Wholesale prices are higher, but it won't affect you.
Lawrence Floral Company
1447 Mass.
Bell 55.
Roses, $1.50-$2.00 per doz.
CLOTHES INSURANCE
When a man spends ten thousand dollars for a house, he naturally takes some pride in its looks. He also battles against the elements to make it a long time. Every two or three years, he spends $100 to have it painted. Every year he pays out $50 to insure it against fire or tornado.
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Senior Play April 26. Make Dates Now!