UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
THEATRE VARSITY
The College Theatre
TONIGHT ONLY
SIS HOPKINS (ROSE MELVILLE)
in "A Leap Year Wooing"
Also Henry Woodroff in "The Beckoning Flame"
Also Henry Woodroff in "The Beckoning Flame"
THURSDAY, MARCH 9 AT THE BOWERSOCK THEATRE The Seniors of the Lawrence High School will present "MILESTONES"
Seats reserved at the Box Office. Show starts at 8:15 o'clock.
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Plain Tales from the Hill
Eva Johnson, '19 College, was surprised by her mother, who came Saturday from Irving to visit this week with her daughter.
Since the erection of the new animal house back of Snow Hall, Professors Robertson, is moving his collection of guinea-pigs and white mice from the museum to the new building. Professor Robertson uses these animals in his experiments, and has been keeping his specimens in the basement of the museum.
Mrs. Ben N. Lauer, of Osare City,
was in Lawrence Friday afternoon
visiting her son, Albert. She was
very much impressed with the little
she saw of the school and remarked
that next year she would have two
boys on the Hill and she would be
phad of it.
A hobby for bright colored crepe de Chine handerchiefs shows the accumulative instinct of Lorna Pumry, '19, College. Although most of her time was spent at the Russian Ballet Saturday in Kansas City she had time to add sixteen more flashy ones to her collection.
Mr. G. F. Godardd of Kinsley was the guest of Albert Wilson and Tom Mairts at the Pi Uplion house, Monroe, N.J., where he trails the Trail Drug Store at Kinsley.
The Y. M. C. A. has disposed of thirty-eight dollars worth of nut bars, and has sent in a second order for a similar amount. The proceeds from the sale of this confection goes into maintenance fund of the association.
J. M. Jenkins, a former K. U. student, has returned to Kansas City after spending several days at the Phi Delt house.
Adda Harper, '16 Fine Arts, has withdrawn from school for the rest of this year because of the serious illness of her sister.
Prof. G. N. Watson, of the State Drug Laboratory in the Chemistry building, is just recovering from an attack by a dog. The cough was rather severe, and Professor Watson was confined to his home for more than a week. He was in his office a short time Monday, though, and will soon be back on duty.
Mu Phi Epsilon, music sorority announces the pledging of Una Allen,
Tab Highley, of Oklahoma City,
visited his friend Billy Mee at the
Phi Delta Theta house Sunday.
Tab is a member of the Kappa
Alpha fraternity at the University of
Oklahoma. He is now travelling for
Ed. M. Seman & Co., a fire equipment
firm.
Students desiring adventure and excitement to give zest to life, had it today. The high winds which prevailed rendered travel between the Administration buildings more difficult than it has been for some months.
Paul Shaft, '18 Engineer and Her-
dicall College, spent Saturday
and Sunday at
With a couple of week's allowance in his pocket, George P. DaMetz, 18 College, went to Kansas City Saturday and saw the Ballet Musse. "It was all right, but the dancers were too big," was his comment.
Many anxious looks were cast upward toward the stand-pipe by students passing along Oread Tuesday. But most I see almost not see it away in the strong wind.
Donald Sawyer of St. Johns, Kansas, arrived in Lawrence Wednesday morning with the intention of enrolling in the School of Law. Sawyer attended Baker University three years where he made a good truck It is thought that he will be a valuable addition to Hamilton's squad.
Betty Waldo, who has been visiting at the Chi Omega house for the past few days, has returned to her home in Ellsworth. She says that she is tired of being alone and is rolling in school at Manhattan at the opening of the spring semester.
The Lawrence Fire Department tried out its motor equipment at the monthly practice last Monday by running up the fourteenth Street hill. The climb was made without difficulty and the run could probably be made anytime that there is not snow on the streets.
The old adage that honesty is the best policy, still holds true. A student was approached in class Tuesday by a freshman tag solicitor and asked to pick out one of his classmates to keep his dime, the student claimed to be a sophomore, whereupon a sophomore tag solicitor sitting on the other side demanded twenty-five cents as payment for the solicitor. The freshman hastened to apologize and claim his rightful allegiance.
George Woodward returned Monday morning from Fort Scott where he went to play with the Kansas All-Stars, a team of the best amateur baseball players in the Olympics of San Francisco was won by the Golden Gate team, 55 to 36. Each player on this team was over six feet and two inches tall and the average weight was one hundred and seventy-eight pounds. In addition to these seven-footers, George Woodward said, "what could we do but let them have the game?"
A visitor from an eastern state was walking on the campus one breczy day. "Ah!" he exclaimed, "Now I see why you develop such good track and field skills to get such excellent training by chasing their fates across the campus."
Few students, if any, can boast of printing a newspaper or a journal while attending a university. This is the case with a student of the Massachusetts Institute who publishes the Southwestern Carnegie's Journal in his room.
TO CATCH TRICKY SCALES
Miss Jessie Reed, superintendent of the University Hospital, is enjoying a visit from her mother of Laplaite, $ \mathrm{M}_{0_{2}} $ , this week.
Housewives Are Protected by the Scale Testing Laboratory
While testing and standardizing weights and measures is one of the extra-mural activities of the University of Kansas, it is probably the least known of any of its many public services that have been affected every ultimate consumer where he is most easily affected—in his pocketbook.
TESTS MADE IN A K. U. LABORATORY
Certain unsercupulous dealers in food and other necessities have an unhappy habit of giving short weight and short measurement, with the need not be time out of them in their faces. When a state inspector making an investigation, finds that Mrs. Housewife is being defrauded and wants to make certain that any prosecution he may desire to undertake rests on a firm foundation of evidence, he simply ships the weights, or the measures, as the case may be, to the inspector. If tests are tested, and any irregularity is determined beyond the shadow of a doubt.
CHANCELOR IS "STATE SEALER"
Prof. E. F. Stimpson, of the department of physics, business sealer; business to keep weights and measures of Kansas up to standard. Chancellor Frank Strong, among other titles, bears that of "state sealer." His duties are primarily to supervise work is done by Professor Stimpson.
Checking up on those dealers who give short measure is only a part, and by no means the greatest, of the work of Professor Stimpson. He is required to be a salesman who may desire it a set of standards, by which he may make proper adjustments when called on. He is privileged to charge a small fee for private work but when municipal officers are appointed he must grant. Six cities in the state have municipal inspection, Fort Scott, Topeka, Wichita, Pittsburgh, Leavenworth, and Kansas City; and the standards used by the officers in these cities are checked by check with the University's instrumentarium. Annual comparisons are made.
HAVE GOLD PLATEN WEIGHT.
The official state sets of weights and base
mentals for Fraser Hall, under lock and
key, encased carefully so that dust and
moisture may not impair their accuracy. One set of these was fur-
tered in 1868 when Kansas became a full-fledged member of the Union. This was used for several decades. In 1900 it was returned to Washington, the state where its justices were made. At the same time Kansas purchased a new set, made of those metals least liable to deviation and heavily gold plated. Each unit of the set carries the offi-
cial seal of the United States government.
WEIGHTS ADJUSTED EACH YEAR These primary sets are rarely used. Professor Stimpson has what he terms a *working set*, from which or rather, each of the weights for this year is submitted to the Department of Commerce and Labor in Washington, where it is readjusted, and returned with a certificate indicating what adjustments have been made. Each decade the primary set requires for comparison with federal standards under the provision of state law.
Professor Stimpson says that ordinary scales and measuring instruments used throughout the state vary widely in times through accident. Atmospheric conditions, general wear, and lack of care are responsible for much of the deviation from the standard. Under county clerk duty, a county clerk is a deputy sealer, and is supposed to provide standard measurements for comparison. Although a penalty is provided for those clerks who violate the law, it is commonly disregarded.
When the new shops were almost completed the University authorities arranged a program for the dedication, and tried to persuade Mr. Fowler to purchase the furniture; however, he objected, and said he would rather give $1,000 than to appear. The $1,000 was accepted, and another speaker chosen. The $21,000 not only built the building but also furnished a large part of the equip-
FOWLER SHOPS-A GIFT
Legislature Refused to Build Another After Old One Burned
The original shops were situated at the bottom of the south slope of the hill, where the new heating plant now stands. They included a foundry, manufac-
turing plant and connection with the old power plant, all under the direction of Prof. L. I. Blake of the department of physics.
This plant was destroyed by fire in March, 1898, leaving the University, which now carries on engineering work, with a legislature constructed in the same general way as the one of 1915.
Fowler Shops-What does that name mean to you? To most Oread mountaineers it is only a name, but to the Marinites it is very real indeed because in this building every depart- ing room has that of architecture does work.
Professor Blake is a personal friend of George A. Fowler, the Kansas City packer, and he used his influence with Mr. Fowler to get a donation to replace the loss. Mr. Fowler gave $200,000 in consideration that the new building be named "Fowler Shops" in honor of his father. The present building was built with this fund from plans made by Professor Blake.
At first the electrical, civil and mechanical engineering laboratories were all situated in the new shops, along with the furniture rooms and the machine shops. This arrangement continued for nearly ten years. Then the laboratories went elsewhere, except the hyundai front room down stairs. The shops are now given over to forge, foundry, and machine shop sections down stairs and a pattern making room, locker room, lecture room and office on the
Prof. Frank E. Jones is now in charge, and over many students receive inlui-
ENGINEERS HEAR TALKS
Series of Lectures Extend Through The Day—Banquet Tonight
The annual conference of the mechanical engineers began this morning in the lecture room of Marvin Hall at 10:30 with the opening address by Dean P. F. Walker of the college and junior Mechanical classes were diamised for the rest of the day, and the majority of the underclassmen were excused from their classes in the general engineering subjects. Students drove students and professors of the school gathered in the lecture room.
The meetings were all held in the lecture room of Marvin Hill, starting at 10:30 this morning, and at 2:00 the next day. The speakers for the day have been brought to the University especially for this occasion, and the other engineers than the mechanics were there on hours whenever they had no classes.
The principal address of the day was given this morning by O. B. Zimmermann, the Advisory Engineer of the U.S. Department of Agriculture's natural plant in Chicago. Mr. Zimmermann is one of the foremost authorities in the country on gas and oil motors, and his address on the "Catburuction of Medium and Low Grade Fuels in Internal Combustion Machines" was interesting and instructive.
The other numbers on the program included the following speakers and subjects: F. B. Fisher, of Wichita, "Commercial Problems in Natural Gass Engineering"; C. J. Price of Topeka, "Mechanical Engineering and the development of Mining Properties"; Prof. J. D. Garver of the University, "B. O. Physical Chemistry"; B. O. Physical Chemistry, students, "The Manufacture of Automobile Tires"; Prof. A. H. Sluss of the University, "Some Phases of Boiler Operation"; and Geo. Gröderck of Lawrence, "The Manufacture of Paper."
The meetings will close this evening about six o'clock with the final discussion of the conference and the work of the mechanicals for the year. The celebrations for the day will not end, however, until this evening, when the annual banquet for the mechanicals will be held in Engles Hall, where a series of conference meetings as the invited guests. A six course dinner will be the entertainment for the first part of the evening, which later will be turned over to the singing of engineering works, followed by a formal mechanical Engineering," Dean P.F. Walker; "Ous Section," J. E. Stillwell; "Kansas and Oklahoma," F. P. Fisher; "The Juniors," C. W. Hagen; "An Automatic Homematic Engineering," O. B. Zimmermann; "Vacations," E. E. Howard.
Mr. Applebloom To Give Illustrated Lecture
Mr. Applebloom, who has recently come to the University as an instructor in French, will give an illustrated lecture on Holland and Her Position in the War, Sunday, March 18th. Mr. Applebloom is a native of Holland and has served as an officer in the Dutch navy. He lived for two years in Belgium and is so thoroughly conversant with the situation as it affects the Netherlands. Mr. Applebloom has some very interesting perceptions to be related to and the promise to be most entertaining and instructive.
Mr. Applebloom's lecture is the first of a series of similar Sunday evening lectures on the various countries involved in the European War. The series has been arranged by the Young People's Society of the Unitarian Church, and they extend a cordial invitation to all who wish to meet with them, and that their efforts affect by the European struggle, to attend these lectures. Further announcement of speakers and subjects will be made later. Time, Sunday evening 8 o'clock, Place, Unitarian Church—Adv.
Fridays and Saturdays are fruit salad days at Wiedemann'—Adv.
TERMS
MISUNDERSTOOD
Bryan Prize Contestants Worry Over Requirements of Essay
There has been some misunderstanding concerning the terms of the Bryan prize essay contest this year. The subject to be used is the "Cost of Preparedness." The essay must contain more than 10,000, and must be accompanied by an outline and bibliography of all sources of information.
The manuscript should be handed to the Chancellor not later than May 1, and signed by an assumed name, while the real name of the author must be submitted at the same time, enclosed in a sealed envelope.
The essay, according to Prof. F. H. Hodder, may include anything that will be of cost in maintaining a pre-deployment authentic statistics, the cost of maintaining armies, navies, and state militia, or the treating of any other cost, that would be incurred, such as the cost of men consumed in military service.
TAKE STORE ACCOUNTING
Senior Pharmics Will Get More of Practical Side of Business
Graduates from the School of Pharmacy will hereafter be prepared to keep their own accounts when they establish their "pill-shops," if the plans of Dean Sayre produce the results he desires. The dean has recently arranged with Prof. A.C.E. Hodgson, the department of accounting, to give a one hour lecture to the senior pharmacies every Tuesday morning at 11:30 upon the subject "Store Accounting." Professor Hodge will take up during the course of his lectures all the problems of store accounting that would likely arise in an unmaneuverable, maecultual establishments, whether they be small cross-road drugs stores or the more important dispensaries of the metropolis.
"We have been looking to the professional, theoretical, and to certain of the practical sides of the pharmaceutical business," says Dean Sayre, "but now we are going to broaden out and give the students more of the practical things, of which the course in store accounting is one."
One student who frequents Robinson Gymnasium says that he dislikes to make instinning remarks, but that he does not quite see why the towel was given him one day here before the identification mark of the City, Y. M. C. A.
Harry Schroers, who left the University at the close of the first semester to take charge of his father's drug store in St. Joseph, Missouri, will be a dam brothers that he will come to Lawrence to a tend the Soph. Hop
At a meeting of the College Forum at Harvard, Theodore Roosevelt received an overwhelming majority of votes cast for Republican presidential candidates. Of the other candidates favored over Root, Borah and McCall.
The giant water tower, landmark of the Kansas State Agricultural College, will soon be painted in green, white and aluminum.
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BOWERSOCK THEATRE
2 Days Commencing Tomorrow Jesse L. Lasky presents the beautiful
MAE MURRAY in an elaborate and stirring picturization of Mary Johnston's widely-read novel
"To Have and to Hold"
A masterpiece of historical romance, faithfully reproduced and preserved in motion pictures.
Paramount Travel Weekly 4 Complete Shows Daily Matinee 2:30,4:00; Night 7:45,9:15
Admission 10c. Remember the Bowersock is fireproof.