UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOLUME XIII.
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS, TUESDAY AFTERNOON, APRIL 11, 1916.
TWO PROFS HONORED
Shaad and Whitaker Named by Daniels on State Board of Five
Seven "Wonders" at K. S. U.
FOR INDUSTRIAL SURVEY
Also Associate Members Naval Consulting Board
Professors G. C. Shaad and W. A. Whitaker have been appointed by Josephus Daniels, Secretary of Navy, as two of a board of five Directors of the State Organization for Industrial Preparedness. In every state in the union five men from engineering circles have been named to serve on a board of three which is to appointing the taking of an industrial inventory of the state in order that Uncle Sam may know just how strong he is in case of war. The five members thus appointed are also to serve as associate members of the Naval Consulting Board. Outside of the K. U. professors named the other three appointments were as follows: O. H. Nixon, A. T. Petter, R. F. Dean and A. A. Potter, the Dean of the School of Engineering at the Agricultural College.
LETTER FROM DANIELS
The following letter sent to both professors Shaad and Whitaker, explains the nature of the work, and has attached to it by the military circles;
Mr. W. A. Whitaker,
University of Kansas,
Lawrence, Kansas.
Mear Dear Mr. Whitaker
NUMBER 133
In requesting you, which I hereby take much pleasure in doing, to serve as a member of the Board of Directors of the Organization for Industrial Preparedness for the State of Kansas, and as an Associate Member of the Naval Consulting Board. I am given opportunity to give you a brief overview and the importance of the work which you are about to take up. At the same time I desire to tender you the hearty thanks and the deep appreciation of the Department and of the Administration for the definite service that you, in the most nonpartisan and free manner are about to render to the governmen- and the people of the United States.
BOARDS IN EACH STATE
There can be no higher service to the country than that contemplated in the plans of the Committee on Industrial Preparedness of the Naval Consulting Board, which has in hand the general direction of the work in question. The war in Europe has taught us that Industrial Preparedness is the foundation rock of the national defense and it is in full measure you can contribute a large and patriotic service for the common interest of this republic.
Very sincerely yours, (Signed) Josephus Daniels,
Secretary of the Navy.
The five members in each state who are to act as the directors of the work force of the state, the secretary of the state are named by the Secretary of the Navy at the recommendations of the Executive committees of their various Engineering Societies. The American Institute of Electrical Engineers, the American Chemical Society, the American Society of Civil Engineers, the Institute of Mining Engineers, and the American Society of Mechanical Engineers were allowed to name one man from each state for the directors of the state work, making a board of directors of five men for every state.
The object of the organization will be to take a complete inventory of the natural resources, manufacturers, industries and the means of transportation and communication over the land or by sea. The national government can place its hands on every available facility from food supply to metals for making bullets within a few hours. They will know at all times just how much of necessity is available for ordinary occasions or in case of an emergency.
Send the Daily Kansan home.
"Doctor?" Peter Kankoff, 18 Medicine has established a reputation for himself along other lines than medical research. He put his knowledge of food chemistry into practice Sunday by making the finest angel food cake that was ever turned out. Those who tasted it agree that the department of Home Economics will have to look to their laurels.
The work of taking this inventory will be under the direction of the five men named by Secretary Daniels, but they will have assistants over the state who will work under their orders. Every man will have charge of a certain work, and while neither Professor Whitaker nor Professor Shaad has received explicit directions as to when how to begin the work, it is certain that the inventory will be more thorough than any other ever taken before on account of having the national government behind the movement.
FACULTY WOMEN TO SAVE
PRESERVES FOR HOSPITAL
The scientific equipment for the University Hospital is supplied by the State, therefore the $13 in cash which we will provide to go for household appointments, Dr. Alice Goetz, says: "At present, we expect to keep this money as a nest egg to which we will add more and more, we may remodel the diet kitchen.
At the last meeting of the University Women's Association it was suggested that each member set aside two or three glasses of jelly or preserves to the hospital. Also each one as to salve all her old magazines for the hospital.
Mrs. Frank strong says that the hospital would be glad to receive any contributions from town people or any one else who would care to donate of their old magazines or any jellies, etc., to them.
EIGHT COSMOPOLITANS ALMOST CAUSE RIOT
Can't Blame Professors.
D'jever notice how urgent his professorship gets when recommending the magazine stuff to be read by his class, how subtly he leaves the impression that he gorges himself every night before going to bed with the Atlantic Monthly, World's Work, and Review of Reviews?
If you want a peep behind the scenes come on over here to the University club. We'll stand in the doorway and while the Professor swings the gavel and talks with his hands we'll listen to the bidding.
"Twenty copies of the Atlantic Monthly, how much am I offered gentlemen? What? Twenty-five cents? Think of it, twenty copies—and all I'm bid is twenty-five cents. Thirty cents. Fifty cents. Fifty cents. Going ___ who'll make it fifty ___ going to Professor But for thirty cents.
"Come on now let's have some real bidding. Five copies of the World's Work. - - - - What, nobody wants them? Well, here we'll the ten last numbers of the Reviews of Reviews. A quarter! Never, we'll burn them.
What's the matter with you pro-
tection? why don't you do some real
bidding? ****
*a dollar* — *dollar sixty-nve*
*two dollars and a quarter* — *two- twifo*
*three* — *three*
"Aw put an honest-to-goodness man." "This in sootty voice from the chorus."
"Here's eight copies of the Cosmopolitan, they're a year old but - - never can die till humanity itself
and no man is left on the planet to
learn from it.
"Professors, be gentlemen, you can't all have them."
SEVENTY STUDENTS START
FOR THE PEN SATURDAY
They rung down the curtain on us then and we couldn't see anything more.
About seventy students of the University will be taken to the Kansas State Penitentiary at Lansing and the Federal Penitentiary at Leavenworth so that those in charge have decided they can not be safely transported without the use of a special train. This will leave the Union Pacific depot at 7:30 in the morning. The students will learn conditions inside the Pen first hand, but will not be deprived of their education either. They are from the department of Sociology and will return Saturday evening.
TALK ON MASEFIELD ENTER THE POP DANCE
George Herbert Clarke Wi Speak on Life of English Writer
Writer
George Herbert Clark, professor of English at the University of Tennessee, will speak at K. U. on the life and work of John Masefield, a present day English poet and dramatist, in the chapel, April 18; at 4:30 p. m. A tencentury address in memory of William Shakespeare is to be given April 9, m. and d. by b. m. April 19, Professor Clark will discuss "The Mystery of Hamlet."
John Masefield is perhaps better known for his narrative poems, "The Everlasting Mercy," "The Widow in the Street," and his bullets of the
Mr. Masefield was born in 1875, and since that time he filled the positions of sailor, farm laborer, and not so very long ago he served as bartender in a New York saloon. When he returned to England, he began to write and the worth of his work was readily recognized. In 1912 he was awarded Poligane prize for poetry by the Royal Society of Literature. Up to the present time he is better known for his poetry than his plays.
Professor Clarke's second lecture will take up the life and work of William Shakespeare, master dramatist, who died April 23, 1616, three hundred years ago. To quote the words of Richard Le Gallienne:
"It was surely a good day for the world when he was born, and to celebrate the day of his death is to announce that he has never really died
The Mystery of Hamlet' will con
cult the varieties of lectures by Profes
s Clarke.
THIRD LENTEN RECITA1
Prof. Skilton and Mrs. Olcott Will be Heard Wednesday
The third of the Lenten Organ Recitals will be given in Fraser Hall Wednesday at 4:30 by Prof. Chas. S. McCann, adjunct professor, cott, contralto. The program will be made up of Wagner numbers. The program follows;
Festal Music from "Der Meister-singer."
Tannhauser March.
Liebestod from "Tristram and Isolde."
Temple Bells and Love Feast from "Parsial."
Magic Fire Music from "Die Walk urie."
The class in High School Administration closely resembles a county teachers' meeting at the present time. The students have all been assigned reports on the best methods in teaching the subjects in which they are majoring, and the enthusiasm which they display in giving these reports is remarkable considering what little experience they have had.
Dreams Orgon
"Parsifal."
Miss Ethel Wilson, of Louisburg spent the last of the week with her sister La Vern Wilson, '18 College.
Student Council to Stage Its First All-University
Party
Now comes the Pop Dance. It is not $\epsilon$ variation of the one-step, Maxiize, Waddle or anything else. Its novelty consists in the fact that it is for everybody—an all-University affair. The pop dance being made with that understanding
Ed Haley and his violinist from Kannan will come up to play for the party.
The Pop Dance is a new thing. The Student Council has planned to give this one as an experiment and if the students of the University show that they are familiar with it, the Student Council will give them regularly this spring and next year.
It is Saturday night in Robinson gymnasium.
Edward Tanner, chairman of the social committee of the Student Council, says that it will take a large attendance to make the dance pay its expenses as the admission price of twenty-five cents a couple will not go far toward defraying the expenses of a student. The committee lives that if 150 couples attend, the Pop dances will become a permanent feature at K. U.
Saturday night, the music will begin at 8:30 o'clock and the program will be on Tuesday.
K. U. Grad and an American Violinist Make Out Program
TO GIVE FREE RECITAL
The School of Fine Arts has made arrangements for a free musical recital to be given in Fraser Hall Thursday, April 13 at 4:30. The recital will be given by Miss Iona Senn, violinist and pianist. Miss Senn is an American artist who has studied four years abroad. She has appeared in a great many concerts in this country and is an artist of large attemtations. Dean Harold L. Lehman, the director of the Jazz Center, and immediately made arrangements for a concert here.
Miss Morgan is a graduate of the School of Fine Arts, a pupil of Prof. Carl Preyer. She has also done considerable concert work.
The recital will be free and open to the general public.
The program follows:
Concerto, D. moll...Vieuxtemps
Preghiera...Bazzini
Gavotte...Gossec
Deutscher Tanz...Dittersdoorf
Abend lief...Schumann
Hgire Kati...Hubey
Sextette from "Lucia di Lammer-
The program follows;
moor"..." Leschetzky
(For the left hand alone)
(For the left hand alone)
Zigeunerweisen...Sarasate
Lawrence friends of Captain Adna Clarke, U. S. A., an alumnus of the University of Kansas, were inquiring today if he had been sent to the canal zone with several hundred men and officers of the coast artillery who sailed last Saturday for the zone. When last heard from him he was staunchly Adna Clarke. I but I was in the hospital in Washington suffering from a wound received years ago in the Philippines which has been bothering him for a great deal for two or three years. Clarke took his LLB. in '97 and A. B. in '06.
George Baerg, as Der Vetter, played the leading part very successfully. Harold Mattono and Edward Kroesch carried heavy parts with good mastery. The two women in the play, Lucile Blackfan and Irma Wohlheim, were also involved. The other "personen," although carrying minor parts, did excellent works.
The three act comedy, Der Vetter,
given by the department of German
Saturday evening in Green Hall, was
enjoyed by a good house in spite of
the fact that many who had tickets were
sent at the交atrentcontinental
reunion.
DER VETTER WAS GOOD
COMEDY—DREW CROWD
"We are always pleased to see the German people down town turn out to our plays," said Prof. W. W. Hawkins this morning. The proceeds go toward defraying expenses of the German Verein.
Each spring the department of German gives a play. It is usually some good side-splitting comedy, and Der Vetter was no exception.
WOMEN TRAINING HARD
Feminine Athletes Preparing for Interclass Athletic Tourney in May
Hurdling, putting the shot, high and broad jumping, running and standing, dashing fifty, seventy-five and one hundred yards, and hurling the baseball and discs, are all being practiced. They are freshman, freshman, sophomore and upperclassmen who expect to enter the interclass journey which takes place in May.
Forty freshman women are turning out with a regularity which bespeaks revenge for the different basketball drubbings administered to them last summer. They marries moores and upperclass women, while not so many in number, are also steadily working. That the women are in earnest is shown by the persistence they grind away, striving to get the proper form for these various events.
Each participant can appear in only three events although the tourneys are now trying out in many different ways and you get a line on what they can do best.
"The girls can come out for practice at any time," said Miss Pratt, who is coaching the different squads. "A woman not only has a chance to break the different women's records, and to win points toward an A, but she has the privilege of helping to win a trophy can for her class."
The records held by women in the different events to be given in the K. U. 40 yard hurdles 4 3-5 s. the course are: 40 yard hurdles 4 3-5 s. 80 yard hurdles 13 3-8 seconds. 120 yard hurdles 18 seconds. Rurring broad jump 16 feet 5 inches.
Standing broad jump 8 feet 10 inches.
Standing high jump 4 feet.
Running high jump 4 feet 9 inches.
Shot put (6 lb.) 37 feet 2-1.2
Basketball throw 88 feet 10 inches.
Baseball throw 205 feet 7 inches.
Hurl ball 67 feet 11 inches.
Miss Edna Davis, of Topeka, was the guest of Mary Nicholson and Grace Woulfe at the Alpha Chi Omega house from Friday until Mon. 15th in the court for the Fri. Kappa Alpha and Acacia dances Friday and Saturday evening.
FACULTY SUFFERSAGAIN
An Assistant Professor Is Appointed to Replace Professor
RESIGNATIONS STILL COME
Board Handles Other Routine Business in Meeting Here
The routine business of accepting resignations, granting degrees and making appointments covered the other work done.
The appointment of an assistant professor to fill the place of Prof. Carl Becker was the most important action he must meet in the meeting of the Board of Administration.
Frank E. Melvin, Ph.D., a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, was appointed assistant professor of Modem History at the University of Prof. Carl Becker who leaves the University next fall to accept a better position at the University of Minnesota. Professor Melvin is now an Assistant Professor of European History at Cornell.
The resignations of Professors R. M. Ogden of the department of psychology and C. A. Johnson of the department of electrical engineering were accepted. Professor Ogden's resignation takes effect the first of September. Professor Johnson, who is a graduate student in the house Manufacturing Company at Pittsburgh, Pa., will leave the University about the 15th of this month.
The degree of Bachelor of Science was granted to four students. J. L Bliss, G. C. Harding, and R. C. Keeling of the department of civil engineering in the English department of chemical engineering were granted the degrees.
P. W. Claassen, A. B., '13, K. U., was appointed assistant professor of entomology for the first semester next year to take the place of Prof. H. B. Hungerford, who has been granted a leave of absence. Mr. Claassen went to Cornell to take graduate work and is interested here this year. Professor Hungerford will go to Cornell to take graduate work during his leave of absence.
Miss Olive Coulter was appointed stenographer in the University Extension Division and Miss Mille Mann, assistant in Registrar Foster's office.
5. N. G. TO DRILL IN OPEN
Will Practice Field Work— Change Hour of Drill
Company M of the K. N. G. will begin to hold its weekly drills out in the open tonight at 7 o'clock. The purpose of these drills in the open is to practice field work which cannot be performed by members experience in marching over rough ground and in working with greater intervals between two guards in which orders are given by signal rather than by comman. These drills, as described below, Jones are the same as are given at the summer camp for the K. N. G.
The changing of the time of drill to 7 instead of 8:30 also has its advantages. Many members of the company find it impossible to do any work in a half-hour, and still state of 8:30. The men work out for about an hour and a half, the regulation of the war department, and the entire evening is occupied by reporting to the army, drilling, and changing of uniforms. The men then can they be through at 8:30 at the latest with the rest of the evening free.
Miss Hannah Oliver, Associate Professor of Latin, is training the Greek chorus that will recite in Latin the Greek poem around which the May Fete is built. There will be fifty men and women in the chorus. The dancers will interpret the meaning of the verses spoken by the chorus.
Mrs. H. J. Harlyn, of McPheron, whose husband is Dean of the McPheron College, visited her son, P. W. Harlyn, graduate student, Sunday. She was on her way to a meeting of the Federation of Women's Clubs.
According to a report from the office of Chancellor Strong, Easter vacation will be from April 21 to 24, including Good Friday and the Monday after Easter. The ceasing will run as per schedule and will begin again on Tuesday following.
The Weather
The Forecast: Generally fair to
night and Wednesday. Not much
chance of rain.
MORNING PRAYERS
Week of April 10 to 14
Leader, the Rev. Arthur Braden.
Subjects:
Wednesday: "Knowing God."
Thursday: "Soul Power."
Friday: "Who is this?"