UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
NUMBER 119.
VOLUME XIII.
ITS A K. U. BIG FOUR
Three Graduates Elected to Represent Kansas at National Convention
A HIGH POLITICAL HONOR
Charles F. Scott, of Iola, W. Y. Morgan, of Hutchinson and T. Davenport Smith, of Hiawata, graduates of the University of Kansas were elected yesterday at the state convention in Topeka in 2013 in prominent Kansas at the National Republican convention at Chicago in June.
Charlie Scott, Billy Morgan and Cussin' Billy Smith. Recipients
Mr. Scott was graduated from the University in 1881 and returned as a graduate student in 1888. He was president of the University alumni in 1911. He is now editor of the Iola Register.
Mr. Morgan was graduated in 1885 He was a member of the Board of Visitors. He served as lieutenant governor a few years ago. He was also an avid golfer. Both Mr. Scott and Mr. Morgan were at one time on the Board of Regents
Mr. Smith was graduated in 1899 from the School of Law. While here he played football and won the nickname of "Cussin' Tom Smith." He was captain of the football team. The last fall, he moved to the University to install "pep" into the football team. Mr. Smith practices law in Hiawata.
Membership on the "Big Four" is considered a high political honor.
TO PICK FARCE CAST
Tryouts for the Soph Hop farce are announced for Thursday afternoon at 4:30 o'clock on the main playing floor of Robinson Gymnasium. Any student in the University is eligible to take part, the old custom of limiting the cast to sophomores having been abolished.
Twelve Places in Cast of Soph Hop Farce Will be Filled Tomorrow
Twelve places in the cast are to be filled following the tryouts tomorrow. Parts for men are those of a solo singer, a solo dancer, two black face comedians, a character comedian, a matinee performer, and other parts. Parts for women are those of a solo singer, a solo dancer, a soubrette, and two character comedians.
The tryouts will be conducted by the following: Dix Edwards, chairman of the farce committee; Miss Gladys Eliot, director of solo and chorus dancing; Miss Helen Rhoda Hoopes, director of dramatics; and Don Davis, hip-hop DJ; Gage, who will organize and direct the seven piece orchestra which is to furnish music for the production, will be at the piano.
A chorus of twenty sophomore girls has been selected by Miss Elliott to sing four of the six song numbers in the show. Special costumes are being made for each number. The first chorus rehearsal will be held on the main playing floor of the Gym at 4:30 o'clock Friday afternoon.
"Oh! Oh! Oh!" is the title of 'the farce. It is a musical comedy in one act, with a playing time of about thirty minutes. The farce will be staged as a "midnight frolic" on the evening of the play, and presented on the main playing floor of the gym, without the use of stage, scenery, or properties.
THE BIRDS APPEAR EARLY
Although they attract the most attention, straw hats are not the only heralds of spring; another, and a more reliable sign of pleasant days is the many different kinds of birds that are now seen and heard. Owing to the mild weather, they arrived two weeks earlier this spring than those who have for several months last those few weeks are: the robin, bluebird, meadowlark, red-winged blackbird, kildeer, dove, phoebe, cowbird, and harris sparrow.
Because of Mild Weather Migrations Begun Before Usual Time
The most unusual birds seen this spring, according to F. Herman Douthitt, assistant professor of zoology, was the snowflake, a small bird of the Hudson Bay region which seldom winters south of the Dakotas.
In about two weeks the great migration of birds will begin, and flocks of blue jays and red headed woodpeckers may be seen on their way to their summer homes in the northern states. The orioles, warblers, and cookoos, always the last to arrive, may be seen about the last of April.
Cora Charles, '18 College, returned Sunday evening from Kansas City where she spent two days taking lessons on broken fingers injured some time ago in basketball.
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS, WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, MARCH 22, 1916.
MEDIC STUDENT LOSES
MEDIC STUDENT LOSES
SIGHT FOR TWO HOURS
Alfred C. Eastlake, '18 medic, was taken suddenly blind on Saturday, March 11, and remained in this state, for two years. When he was Kansas City and an oculist was consulted. When he arrived in the city, he was able to see again, but for fear that he would become blind again, he was sent to the city a week, taking treatments.
The cause of this sudden blindness, the oculist said, was from overstraining his eyes. Mr. Eastlake was accustomed to sitting up until midnight preparing his lessons. He is still taking treatments, but is able to resume his classes on the Hill. His home is in Kansas City, Mo.
IT'S EITHER B.S. OR A.B.
Student May Choose Which Degree He Prefers—Under Conditions
The recommendation was drawn up by
professors F. E. Kester, C. A.
Dykstra, D. L. Patterson and A. J.
Boytont, Dean Ellin Templin was
A Bachelor of Science degree from the College at the option of the student was adopted by the college faculty at its regular monthly meeting yesterday afternoon. The new regulation follows:
If war broke out and professors had to go to war their salaries as lieutenants would be larger than their present pay as professors.
"Upon request, and candidate who has met the requirements for the degree of the Bachelor of Science instead, providing the major part of his work has been elected as a visiting fellow, application for the sanction of the department in which his major work has been done."
At this meeting Charles William Smith was granted the degree of Bachelor of Arts, and Paul Rex Neal Bachelor of Science in Medicine.
The committee was unable to submit a recommendation on the question of granting a specialized form of the Bachelor's degree to students who elect extensively from courses of a more or less technical character.
Licutenants in U. S. Army Get Higher Pay Than K. U.
Savants
A first lieutenant starts out with a salary of $2,000 and at the end of twenty years receives $2800 a year. A second professor receives about $1700 a year.
A professor or head of a department may receive $2200, but there are only a few such men on the University faculty. Associate professors receive $1000, which is same as a second lieutenant in the army would make.
IF PROFS WERE OUT FOR MONEY, THEY'D FIGHT
Faculty members lower than associate professors receive less than $1700, and since these are greatly in the majority, most of the men teaching in the University of Kansas receive less than $2500, so they could be making if they held a commission as lieutenant in the army.
The Congregational church, the oldest church in Kansas, laid the cornerstone of its new parish house on Sunday, March 19. Richard Cordley, one of the famous pastors of the church placed a memorial in the Gauche Gardens, placed the papers, because she gave the first five dollars to the parish house fund.
If Company M, the K. U, company of the Kansas State Militia, is ordered to the border for Mexican service they are assigned to, they work for their work during their absence.
When the University men went to the Philippines to fight, they were allowed to take a special examination before going on to be over, their grade in this examination counting as the grade for the term's work. The matter is entirely within their control, but they will probably decide to give credit to the students in this way.
The salary of an army officer increases with the length of time he serves his country and is increased whenever he serves in a foreign land, whether he serves as admiral for the experience they acquire by long service.
The Rev. Noble S. Elderkin conducted the services. The building will cost $16,000. It was designed by Farrer and Weiser, of Kansas City.
Salome Langmade, '18 Fine Arts, is spending the week in Oberlin where she is doing court reporting.
STUDENT SOLDIERS MAY
GET CREDIT WHILE ABSENT
LAY CORNER STONE OF
LARGE PARISH HOUSE
Women Join Voices in a Chorus of K. U. Melodies on Museum Steps
SENIOR SING A SUCCESS
MAY BECOME TRADITION
Plan to Hold Another Every Two Weeks
"Lift the chorus ever onward. Crimson and the blue.
Hail to thee our Alma Mater,
Hail to K. S. U."
that the familiar refrain, and many others sacred to K. U. students, were wafeted out upon the more than gentile breezes last night, from the steps of the Dyche Museum where the senior women held their first "sing."
It was the kind of singing that arouses college spirit and makes one feel as if he wanted to stand up and cheer! Autos, filled with students, were lined up along the street and even the streetcar had been pressed to leave their library readings and go out on the library stems to listen.
The hearty applause accorded the senior women gave them so much peep that they couldn't stop singing after they had rended each K. U. song at least once, so they sang such popular old songs as "Way Down upon the Swainne River," and My Old Kentucky Home."
This is the first meeting of its kind and it was so successful that the senior women have decided to hold one at least every two weeks. If singing becomes monotonous, they may turn it into hikes, or some other diversion.
Invention of K. U. Students Automatically Indicates Street Passed by Car
HELPS STRAPHANGERS
A street indicator for trolley cars that automatically indicates the names of the streets and stations along the line, has been invented and patented by Hobart Lutz, '18 E.E., and Harry Giles. The device, which this device on street cars will dispense with the nuisance of a conductor shouting the names of the streets, and frequently being misunderstood, or of the necessity of the passenger pressing the buttons to turn on the street in an effort to make out the names of the streets on the telephone poles.
More than two years of time am considerable money have been expended by Lutz and Vernon in perfecting this device. Lutz first conceived the class room of the Blue Rapids high school listening to a physics lecture. He took out his fountain pen and made a diagram of his idea in a note book that he carried. He still has the note with the roughly drawn lines in it.
DEVICE IS SIMPLE
The principle on which the indicator works is simple. A card bearing the name of the street automatically reads "1234" on top of the car comes in contact with another arrangement on the trolley line, and allows a current to pass through an electro-magnet. The card shows that the car has been in position by a compressed air device.
In recent issues of the Scientific American and the Patent Office Gazette, full descriptions and illustrations of some machines have been since then Lutz and Vernon have been receiving a flood of letters from manufacturing plants over the country. They say however that they are not aware of the new machine H. A. Sluss of the School of Engineering has examined the device and speaks highly of it. "It see no reason to doubt its usefulness," he said. "It works smoothly and is apparently without a flaw."
Alumnus Looks for Pharmic
J. H. Eberl attended the School of Pharmacy here in '99-10, was back on Oread last Friday reviving his spirit and incidentally looking for a K. U. pharmic to employ as a clerk in his drug store at Plattsburg, Missouri. In the opinion of Miss Johnson and in the hands of Mr. Eberl now at K. U., he is a model alumnus—a man who never loses his passion for K. U. and takes regular trips to see all big football games and track meets. Unlike the average bachelor, Mr. Eberl is fond of having athletes associated with him in his business.
The demand from the mining sections of the state is so great for the special 8-page mining and geology issue of the University of Oklahoma that Professor Terrill will send out boys tomorrow to call on the Lawrence Kansan subscribers for copies not destroyed. Those who do not care to keep a copy are supposed to save them until a boy calls.
WOMEN DRAW BOWS
The edition of 4,500 has been entirely exhausted.
No, Not Beaux; It's the Archery Club We Have Reference
SPRING SPORTS BOOMING
To
Tennis, Swimming, Track and Maybe Baseball Later
Women's archery practice starts today, at 3:30 o'clock in front of the Fowler Shops. This practice will take the form of a tournament, where players compete in the silver trophy cup offered by B. G. Gustafson. This cup is now on display in Dr. Goetz's office along with the tennis racket offered to the champion of the spring tennis tournament recently won by the sophomore women basketball team.
Ella Hawkins, the champion of last year's contest, will coach the archery aspirants. This sport will be reserved for upperclass women and all co-eds who care to win an individual trophy or are actually interested in this kind of athletics will probably be squinting at the bull's eye target this afternoon.
Large, five foot bows, made out of lemon and lance wood will be used. These bows have much tension and a woman must use her muscular abilities as well as her curiosity of feet that they need to target some seventy-five feet away.
BOWS NOT PLAYTHINGS
Practice will continue every day at 10am until the final contact which will be announced.
3:30, when will take place some time in May. Along with archery and the other sports, tennis, swimming, track, and even rumors of a women's baseball nine are circulating among the women athletes. Special schedules have been made out for the Round Robin Tennis Tournament and already over 100 women have taken part in this sport. Many of the women are also practicing for the swimming meet which will take place some time in May. In fact the spring sports seem to be taking the women by storm and soon it will be like the 2014 France Pratt, sport director, which will outline the whole field for spring sports for women.
Those who remain in the regular gym classes will take part in the various dances and exercises to be staged in the May Fete this spring.
A FREAK MONTH THIS
Hottest, Coldest, and Windiest Day Records Smashed With More March to Come
That was a forty-mile gale which tossed you around on top of Mount Oread this morning. It broke the 1916 record. Yesterday you will remember, was rather warm—in fact, beat his record twice, only three months later. It has been six years since he warmed up to 90 degrees in March.
According to the University weather bureau, March has been a month of extremes. This warm spell, members of the bureau say, was due to the extremely low pressure area sweeping across the country from the northwest. That is why it is awake and as the K. U. came near its edge hence the high wind, which always circulates around a low pressure area in an anti-clockwise direction. However the barometer is rising rapidly today and this part of Kansas will soon be free of the high winds. At 10 o'clock there are a forty mile since hour gate. This is the highest wind since last November.
Despite the fact that March had the hottest day for many years it also had the coldest one, since 1869. The third day of the month was a half degree hottest zero. So far, this month has the least warm of any March on record.
P. Conner, Kansas City's weather man, said this morning, that spring had turned to summer. Yesterday he said it lacked only a degree and a fraction of being warmer than any day Kansas City had last summer. It was a disappointment for him, but he made the birthday of spring a day earlier to conform with leap year. P. Conner prophesies spring showers for today.
Members of the botany department of the University said today that the extremely warm weather had caused the fruit trees to bud earlier than usual and unless the warm weather was too strong, most of the fruit being destroyed. Earlier weather conditions have already produced harmful results.
Dean Harold L. B., Butler, of the School of Fine Arts, will give a recital Tuesday night at Alabama. Wednesday night at Leavenworth.
Miss Ruth Litchen, '15 College, who is teaching at Linwood high school, attended the teacher's convention and visited at the Sigma Kappa house. Miss Litchen was in the senior play cast last year.
Plain Tales from the Hill
Mrs. Herman Douthit left Monday to visit relatives at Athens, Illinois. You'll result the Professor is again experienced in the trials and troubles of bachelorhood.
Alfred Eastlake, sophomore medicine, has returned to his work in the School of Medicine. He spent last week at his home in Kansas City having his eyes treated. Eastlake will take college of Chicago last year and will attend summer school there if the condition of his eyes permits.
The Pi Upsilon Fraternity will have their annual "Dublin" party Friday in the classroom at the chapter house at 6:30 followed by dance at Ecse's Hall.
James Barley, president of the freshman class of last year was on the Hill Friday, Saturday and Sunday visiting friends. Jimmy was prevented from enrolling in school last fall because of an attack of typhoid fever. He is now working for the Structural Steel Company of Kansas City, Kan. He intends to be back at K. U. next year.
Mr. and Mrs. G. A. Talbert are visiting their daughter, Vesta, 19, Fine Dresses. They drove in their car from Coventry tougs Friday and expect to return today.
Harry Henderson has withdrawn from the University and returned to his home in Alma, because of the illness of his mother.
Prof. G, W. Stratton of the department of chemistry returned Monday from Creede, Colorado, where he was called by the death of his brother. Professor Straton was away about a week.
Welker Sheperd, '18 Engineer,
withdrew from the University last
week and has gone to his home in Hutt-
ton. He will return to the Ust-
ernia next fall.
Edward C. Johnston, A. B. '11, arrived in Lawrence last week from Washington, D. C., to visit a week with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. R. Clyde Johnston at 1501 Rhode Island street. Since leaving school Mr. Johnston has been connected with the U.S. department of commerce as a biologist and for the past year has been in charge of the U.S. ship Albatross, which is employed by the University of the United States and Alaska. Mr. Johnston is now on his way back to San Francisco, where he will spend the next three months in biological research along the coast of southern California.
Josephine Schwartz, '18 College, was called to her home in Wilson Tuesday morning because of the illness of her father. Mr. Schwartz was stricken with apoplexy several weeks ago, but was thought to be practically out of danger until a relapse occurred Monday night. Miss Schwartz will probably not return to school until next fall.
Roy Cayssity. 18 College has with-
holds the university to take up a
position in Ashleigh.
"What's the matter with Rinker?" is the question being asked by his friends. Sunday morning on his return from church he complained that his coat did not fit properly in the sleeves and that his shirt collar was too small. The trouble did not get better till night when upon undress ing he fell into a deep hole in his shirt to get good shirt he had forgotten to remove the soft shirt which he was wearing and that he had worn two shirts all day.
Miss Lela Golden of Fort Scott and Helen Short of Leavenworth both of the class of '14, visited Miss Jess Reed, superintendent of the University Hospital, during the Teachers' Convention.
Helen Houghton, '15 College, who teaches at Oldsburg, who attended the conference, says the difficulty with her pupils is not to get them to work but to get them not to overload them. It is careful not to assign too long lessons because if they do the pupils will kill themselves.
John W. Thompson, 15 College,
well known as Dr. Yellowleaves of
last year's senior play, is in town tak-
ing a rest from his duties as pedagogue.
He is teaching in the high
school at Kensington.
The class in history of American Painting was agreeably surprised Tuesday, when they were at last given the long-promised picture show. There was only one complaint and that of the lack of air. They say some people could not stay awake because the room was so warm.
Some of the practice teachers, who were expecting to be on exhibition with their classes Friday, were greatly disappointed when the students, faculty, and even the visitors at Oread cut classes to attend the basketball game in which the training school was represented.
DEPENDS ON THE PRESS
Permanent Peace Will Result Only When Public is Correctly Informed
A GOVERNMENT CONTROL
Cambridge Visitor Suggests Remedy for "Yellows"
"The part that the press will play in the workings of the peace movement will be most important, but will be uncertain," said G. Lowes Dickinson, of Cambridge University today who speaks this afternoon on "International Reconstruction after the War."
"If any organization such as the League of Peace is established after the war, there will also be a Board of Conceliation and Inquiry that will, during the year that must elapse between the time that the war ended and the time that it is settled, make a full report to the public. Naturally the papers of the various countries will take sides; at least they always do. Public opinion on the matter will then form in a large measure from the newspapers."
ELEVENES
Unsercupulous newspapers such as you have here and such as we have in England will take the unscrupulous side of it. The so-called yellow newspapers will take the side that promises the most excitement. Unscrupulous newspapers nearly always want war, because war gives excitement and excitement and excitement," he says." declared the Cambridge man, his face all seriousness, showing that his subject was of grave importance.
"But," he continued, "it's hard to tell just what the action of the papers will be. More than likely, it will be just about what it is on other subjects. In England, and I suppose that it is the same here but in the cities practically can control the provincial press, to such an extent that true, unbiased, unprejudiced opinion is hard to get. For instance, in England at the present time, it is impossible to get any news or opinion into the majority of the papers on the question as to terms of peace. The interests that the press shares they control keep it out as a matter of policy and the rest of the press hasn't the "courage of its own convictions."
GOVERNMENTAL CONTROL
THE VIEWERS:
"The written is difficult to ascertain. I don't know a great deal about journalism, but I have always had an idea that a newspaper under some permanent governmental commission, which would give out news that would have official sanction and which the people could believe as authentic, would go a long ways toward clearing up the situation.
"But," Dickinson smiled, "I think that would be hard to get. Its fate would probably be to become a political organ."
BYE, BYE, DAISY DOZER
40-mile Gale Puts Roller Coaster to Sleep for Good
Students who frequent Woodland Park during the spring and fall will find one old landmark missing the next time they go there. For the old roller coaster, familiarly known to hundreds of students will be no more.
The high wind last night was more than it could resist. Today it, that is, most of it, lies a tangled mass of wreckage. Sometimes last right the wind blew down all but the north end and the ticket office.
The coaster was built five or six years ago, and has been operated on by the staff of Woodland Park during the summer. Woodland park is one of the favorite resorts of the summer sessionist, and it was from these students that the coaster'sprofessor taught it.
The loss was estimated at between six and seven thousand dollars, not covered by insurance. The losers will be the coaster company, which is composed largely of the officers of the Lawrence Railway and Light Company, which operates the car line and electric light plants.
The wind which demolished the coaster also damaged the roofs of other buildings at the park. Residents of the country south of the park also report much damage to other property in exposed positions.
The Weather
the weather
Fair and cool tonight, Thursday
partly cloudy.
MORNING PRAYERS
Week of March 20-24
General subject: Good News for everybody or a complete Salvation.
Friday: Paradise for the Life to Come.