UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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VOLUME XII11.
SHOSTAC CHOOSES CAST
NUMBER 108.
Helen Clark, Alden Torrey, J. B McNaught Will Carry Heavy Parts
DR.GOETZ TRAINS DANCERS
Will Give Greek Pageant in Afternoon
Helen Clark, a junior in the College, is to have the only speaking part for a woman, in the medieval fantastic play that has been written by Professor Percy Shostac for the spring Pageant, according to the announcement made this morning. The cast has all been chosen, and plays for the play are started. The play is written in poetry, is a medieval allegorical fantasy, and will be staged on the golf links where last year's May Fete was given.
There are five main characters and a Corps de ballet used in the play. Alden Torrey and J. B. McNaught will carry the heaviest men's parts. Mr. Torrey will play the part of the court fool, a part which according to the most dramatic character of the play. J. B.McNaught, as the spirit of the drama, has the part most difficult to interpret and will present some of the best dancing ever produced by a K. U. student. Ralph Spotts, who graduated several years ago, and is still remembered on the Hill, is to take the part of the Princess, while the part of the all together impossible and repulsive suitor, the King of Denmark, will be taken by Merle Smith.
REAL BALLET TO APPEAR
The ballet is to be chosen from the best of Dr. Goetz's aesthetic dancing pupils, and will be led by Mr. Goetz with Mr. Shostac will com- front the dances, which he says are to be "dramatically motivated" and will represent the dream of the Princess, during her search for the Queen of the fairies. There are to be twelve or fourteen dancers.
Aside from the play, which is to be given in the evening, there is to be a Greek Pageant, under the direction of Dr. Goetz, which will be given in the afternoon. Several hundred danced women are be used in these The Spring Pageant this year is to be given under the auspices of the W. S. G. A. and will come at the time of the May Fete given by the Y. W. C. A. last year. The two organizations take alternate years in presenting May Fete and the Spring Pageant. While the event takes place on Old English lines, the Pageant this year will be entirely different and will be purely Greek in nature.
MINISTER IS GEOLOGIST
Rev. Mr. Bennett Began Study Because of Ill Health
The Rev. John Bennett, An Episcopal minister, of Kansas City Kan., who took up the study of rock formations as a hobby, fifty years ago, and became so interested in the work that he has followed it ever since, is said to have learned about geology than any other one man. Coming to Kansas from Wisconsin at the close of the civil war, Mr. Bennett took up his profession as a minister in the eastern part of the state. Because of ill health, he was advised by Dr. Robert Hobbs to take a hobbies in order that he might spend more of his time out of doors.
Tracing rock formations proved to be so fascinating an occupation that as a result of his work Mr. Bennett has followed over twenty beds of limestone through Kansas, from near Omaha to Fort Collins. There is perhaps no outcrop in the state with which he is not familiar; and the Lecompton, Derecreek, and Topeka limestones were first traced and named by him. In spite of his wide knowledge of his subject, Mr. Bennett does not claim to be a professional geologist. He gives a general geology in Kansas University several years ago.
Mr. Bennett has retired from active clerical work. He is now 80 years old; and he keeps himself young by his continued interest in his hobby.
He often visits the department of geology at the University, where he is always heartily welcomed. Recently he was honored with a membership in Sigma Gamma Epsilon, an honorary Mineral and Geological fraternity.
Hilda Brady, of Kansas City, attended the Junior Prom Friday evening and was the guest of Viola Jones, 17 Fine Arts, at he Mu Phi Epsilon house, Saturday and Sunday. Miss Brady is studying voice at the Horner Institute of Fine Arts in Kansas City.
The Ballet Russe which was held in Kansas City Saturday night was well attended by students from the University. Dr. Alice Goetz sent in an order for seventy-two tickets for the performance.
LAW CAN'T BE A SNAP
IF THIS IS A SAMPL
According to the Kansas City Star, it requires three pages of the Kansas law books to print one small law on the subject of "Additional Street Light in First Class Cities." The first section of the law is a paragraph of only 3,870 words—about three columns of ordinary newspaper space.
One short sentence in the section contains only 185 words, with commas thrown in here and there for breathing spells. The section is as follows:
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS. TUESDAY AFTERNOON, MARCH 7, 1916
land liable to any such special assessment may redeem his property from such liability by paying the entire amount chargeable against his property, upon the city clerk mailing him a written or printed notice thirty days before the issuance of the bonds or after the issuance of the bonds by paying all the installments of the assessments, with interest on the latter at the rate of five per centum from the date of the issuance of the bonds to the time of maturity of the last installment, in all cases where the statements not yet levied and paid, as above provided, whether before or after the bonds, shall be paid to the city treasurer, who shall receipt therefor, and all sums so paid shall be applied solely to the payment of such imputation of the bonds issued thereof."
There are three pages of the law that are filled with just such simple sentences as the one printed above, and that can be termed the lucidity of the law?
See a Good Basketball Game Dine, Dance and Be Merry
GET YOUR W.A.A.TICKET
"Tickets for the W. A. A. banquet on sale here," reads the big white placard on the table in the hall of Fraser. The W. A. A. set up headquarters in Fraser today so that every K.U. woman may have a chance to be numbered among those who will receive tickets will be delighted by most delicious dainties on March 11. With each ticket the buyer receives an invitation blank which, after she has filled it out, is good for the admission of one of those deep voiced specimens of humanity that are necessary to make a successful dance. Doors will be opened for the dance at midnight; the men will be admitted at this time.
But before the skidding on the slick floor of the gym begins, many other things will happen. At 7 p. m. the teams will play basketball; and the team that puts on the best demonstration will be awarded a trophy cup by the W. A. A., each team will exert its utmost skill to win. Now is the chance for University women to see how athletes can be developed among men.
After the leather globe whirls no more and the referee's whistle is heard no more, the big banquet will be set up. Mrs. Herman Olcett and setting the life and spirit of the women of the University will then hear the enthusiastic toasts given by Marjorie Hires, Mrs. Herman Olcett and the stuntuts put on by the advanced class in aesthetic dancing will be interesting. These dancers do good work and several of them have established names for themselves in various other activities will aid in making this evening of recreation an enjoyable one. Whether a woman dances or not, she will certainly find enough of the music to worth her while to be at the banquet next Saturday night, March 11.
Mourning for their lost insignia the sorority sisters hung a crepe on their front screen. This has not yet brought the Greek letters, but it has allowed the sorority to quiver after inquiry because several days before the sign disappeared, one of the members of the sorority was suffering from a slight illness.
A certain sorority is mourning the loss of its Greek letters which, until a short time ago, hung from the porch. A woman must be present for over a week, but the sign was not returned. A certain individual, who must be a member of the Amalgamated Order of Light Fingered Indians, yet has made it advisable to return the letters.
Dean F. W. Blackmar gave a lecture in Kansas City Saturday morning, before the teachers of the Kansas City schools, at the New Central High School building. This was one of a course of lectures on sociology which Dean Blackmar is giving.
Wilma Flack, who is a student at the College of Emporia, spent Sunday with Bonnie Lingenfelter, '18, College, at the Sigma Kappa house.
Send the Daily Kansan home.
PREPARE FOR TALKFEST
K. U. Disciples of Demosthene Limber up For Three-Cornered Argument
JAYHAWKERS TO NORMAN
Kansas Gab Artists Will Invade Soonerland Friday
With the time for the Oklahoma-Colorado debate set for next Friday night, no choice has as yet been made of four of the six men who will represent Kansas. The only men who are sure of their places are W. O. Hake who will be the last speaker on the affirmative team which meets in Oklahoma, and will be the last speaker for the negative, which meets Oklahoma.
For the position of first speaker on the affirmative, the choice lies between E. F. Price and John Donald. The final choice is hard and expect to make the team. The final choice will not be made until Thursday, the day before the debate. Either M. H. Read or W. H. Dodds will be the second speaker on the affirmative.
On the negative team which will meet Oklahoma, both Clarendon Havinghurst and E. C. Hale are working for the position of first speaker for Kansas. Likewise the second speaker for Wayne Edwards or Le兰 Smith.
In order to give the men training for the meet, Prof. Howard T. Hill of the department of public speaking has been taking them to various towns over the state and letting them debate against each other at high school debating societies. Monday night he toed a roundabout in the affirmative and Havingburst, Edwards and Merle Smith to Alma, where they debated each other.
The question for the triangular debate will be: "Resolved, that the United States should permanently retain the Philippine Islands." Kansas will assert the affirmative at Lawrence against the negative team from Colorado. The negative team from Colorado will be opposed to Oklahoma affirmative, while the Oklahoma negative will go to Boulder to meet the Colorado affirmative.
The Oklahoma men who will take the affirmative are: Gordon Stater, Carl Magee and Francis Pruett. Carl Magee is junior law for the homa City. He is serving his second year on the University of Oklahoma team, and had two years of debating while in high school. He won the best debate for the best debater in the University.
Magee claims Tulsa as his home, and is the only freshman on the team. Although it is his first year on the university team, he has had three years' experience in debating in high school and military institute.
Robert R. Pruett, though it is his first year as a regular member of the faculty, has had much interscholastic and inter-social debate experience, and has a habit of being on the winning side.He has earned his A.B. and is now study-
CAN'T DECIDE ON WOMEN
Senior Play Committee Strikes Snag in Choice of Cast
The senior play committee has struck several snags in the try outs, the most important at the present time being the choice of the women characters. While the men have been told that the women can come to no decision about the women. After the final tryout this afternoon at 4 o'clock they hope to have the question settled. There are two women's parts in the play, and the committee cannot decide between the three candidates. Jane Weaver, Mary MacMahon and Margaret are causing the trouble. One of the three is to be eliminated and the parts go to the other two. The committee cannot decide which of the women to cast aside, and after working and rehearsing all Friday afternoon, came to no decision. They will try to win by a tie, but may develop into an endurance test the woman tiring out frat being the discarded one.
Mildred Spake, '16 College, spent Saturday and Sunday in Kansas City visiting her parents and attending the performance of the Russian dancers.
Miss Nadine Nowlin of the Department of Zoology spent the week-end visiting at her home in Missouri City, Missouri.
Students of the Oread High School had their picture taken this morning on the steps of Blake Hall.
The women in the play are Mrs. Wogga, a sprightly widow who has romanced many travellers, travelling men, and her niece, Helen, the sweet-heart of the leading man.
While the men are causing some trouble, their problem is simple in contrast to that of the women. Some decision will be reached tonight.
NOTABLES ARE COMING
Josephus Daniels and Chester S Lord Will Talk to Jayhawker Editos
KNOWS ASS'N EXECUTIVES
The acceptances of Josephus Daniels, secretary of the navy, and Chester S. Lord, for forty years with the New York Sun, have been received in response to his editorial association to deliver addresses during Kansas newspaper week at Lawrence the first week in May. Mr. Lord spoke to Kansas editors two years ago. Mr. Daniels' acceptance is tentative, hinging upon the status of his publication now pending before approval.
Naval Secretary Has Friends on Executive Committee
"I note that among the Executive Committee for the newspaper week, there are a number of gentlemen whom I esteem very much and number me. If you were I able to forstell at this time of the status of Naval legislation at the time of your convention I would accept the invitation with pleasure. I hope that Naval legislation may be in such a state that I can accept the invitation. If not, Naval bill is pending. I am not committing myself to engagements.
"If it is at all possible, I will accept the invitation, and I hope that conditions will shortly adjust themselves so that I may write you definitely to this effect," Mr. Daniels writes to Mr. Thorpe.
FINE ARTS TO APPEAR
Students Will Present Musica Program in Fraser,Wednesday Evening
The following program will be given by students of the School of Fine Arts in Fraser Hall, Wednesday evening, March 8;
nsemble: Bolero . . . Moszkowsk.
Mary Linn.艾丽 Wilson
Helen Jenkins, Helen Trawson,
Vocal: Bedouin Love Song , . . . Pinutai
Mary Linn, Aileen Wilson Helen Jenkins. Helen Dawson
Orlo S. Holmes
Organ: Offert on two Christmas Hymns ... Guitar
Doris Robeke
Organ: Offertory on two Christmas Hymns  Guildma
Vocal: Villanelle . . . . . . . . . . Del Acqu
Leta Ellison
kano! Impromptu in f. saul
major... . Chopin
J. I. Lobich
major...Chopm
Lois Libbey
Vocal: Where 'Era You Walk Handel
Charles Sturtevant
Ensemble: Slow Movement from
Piano and Violin Sonata...Skilton
Piano, Helen Dawson
Violin, Ednah Hopkins
Vocal: Salve Regina...Buck
Edna Davis
Piano: Etude Op. 23, No. 4.
Ensemble: Angels Serenade ... Braga
Clara Powell
Phinl, Sidney Lain
organ: Allen C. Dubon
Mary Lewis
Larry Lewis
Clara Power Violin Obligato, Ednah Hopkins Pina Margo Linn
The Third Number of the Music Club Concert will be given Tuesday evening at the Presbyterian church. Mrs. Sargent Haskell will present J. M. Barrie's "Quality Street." Admission $ .50.
A meeting of the Black Helmet Society will be held at the Sigma Alpha Epsilon house Tuesday evening for the initiation of E. Hazen Kendrick. Every member is urged to be on hand at 7:00 o'clock sharp.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
The International Polity Club will hold its regular meeting Wednesday evening at the PI Kappa Alpha house in Chicago, and talk Meeting called at eight o'clock.
There will be a meeting of the Geology Club in Haworth Hall Tuesday day afternoon, at 4:30, Mr. Paul Gillies, director of the University of Kansas, will give a talk.
K. U. Dames will meet Wednesday
at 10:30 a.m. o'clock with Mrs.
Thiele in 1920. Kauptei
The phrase "busier than cranberry merchant" ought to be changed to read "busier than a K. U. student." It was a busy student indeed. Thursday night, who happened to be a frat man, an Engineer, a Y. M. C. A. member, a basketball fan, and a lover of music—as one might easily be. He also attended the erers' banquet, Professor Blackmark's lecture, the K. U. Normal game, and the orchestra concert were some of the events which took place.
Eugene H. Beck, assistant in the gym, refereed a number of the games in the second district basketball conference held at Leuvenworth last week.
LEADS FOR SENIOR PLAY
TO BE DECIDED WEDNESDAY
A special tryout for leads in the senior play was given last night in Green Hall but according to Don Burnett, chairman of the play committee, no decision was reached as to who would take the most important parts in the play. "However, everything was handled appropriately on Monday night," he added, "when the first rehearsal of the play will be riven."
With Assistant Coach Paterson considerably under the weather because of gripe, Coach Hamilton is having trouble playing, shipping the Jayhawk track squad into shape for the Missouri meet, March 17. Patterson was forced to meet in several days last week, he reported being well that he was 'tar from feeling well.
VOTE ON ENGINEERS' DAY
The fate of the annual Engineers' Day will be decided at the meeting of the University Senate this afternoon. A petition, signed by over two hundred engineers, asking for the restoration of the old rule, is held of Chancellor Frank Strong and will be presented for a decision today.
Senate Will Consider Petition to Restore Annual Day to Marvinites
A ruling was passed last spring restricting "school days" to Saturdays or holidays. The reason assigned was that the excitement on the hill usually interrupted one or two of the college and School of Law.
By arranging to start the parade at noon the engineers believe this difficulty of distracting classes can be avoided. The Engineers' Day has been an annual celebration for a number of years and is used to it. The parade is the big feature of the morning and a track and field meet is held in the afternoon.
O K. C. VIA INTERURBAN
3y April 1 New Line Will Be Read to Handle Passengers
The rumor that the Kansas City, Kaw Valley, and Western Interurban Railway from Lawrence to Kansas City would be ready for the transportation of passengers by March 17 is unfounded and it will probably not be ready to handle passengers until April 1.
K. D. Klemm, president of the company and son-in-law of J. J. Heim, the financier of the road, did make the statement a few months ago that he thought the road would be ready to handle passenger traffic some time in March, but since then several observations have vented the completion of the road-bed except for the running of freight cars.
One important thing that is delaying the use of the road is the refusal of the Kansas State Utilities Commission to permit the company to lay their tracks across the bridge at the end of Massachusetts Street in this city. The commission has turned over responsibility for Interurban Company for the strengthening of the bridge by means of piles driven in the river bed.
At present the Interurban Company has no station in Lawrence but it is only a matter of weeks until the building that is to be occupied will be completed. The new station will be two miles north of the Bowers-Schaefer Theater.
The coming of the interurban will mean not only a reduction in fare to Kansas City and intermediate points where residents can buy roads can afford to give, Cars will be run every half hour so that one may go and come almost as he was going. The other 28 cents as opposed to the present 48 cents that the Santa Fe and Union Pacific charge. This will be quite a help to students who live in the "city" or to theater goers who wish to take attractions that Kansas City offers.
The cars to be used are of the ordinary interurban type, but will have the entrance and exit in the middle instead of at the ends. Each car will have a chair, a smoking, and a baggage compartment.
The harbinger of Spring are "harbing" as well as March winds will permit. The afternoon strolls, which are often lush with blooms the winter months, are now coming into favor again. In spite of the mud, Sunday was hike day for many, and as usual Cameron's Bluff was one of the most popular objective points.
Mu Phi' Epitaph announces the
mudging of Dona Allison of Muscatth.
The New York Times
No, the geological display east of Snow Hall is not very beautifulizing. But have patience, it will erode.
ALL CLASSES COLLECT
Different Colored Tags Indicate Those Who Pay Memorial Dues
TO CONTINUE ALL WEEK
Committees Will Collect For Fund Until Friday
A big memorial campaign carried on by the four classes began this morning and will be continued the rest of the week. The presidents and the chairmen of the different classes are joined in a morning parade adigned last week at a meeting
The purpose of "Memorial Week," according to Blondie Jones, president of the junior class, who suggested this week's collection, is to which all the classes can make their collections. The members of the memorial committee of each class will collect and include their class. The money that is collected by each class is to be used as each sees fit.
"The idea of this memorial campaign is to get every one in the Uni-
lization class to stand up." The junior class passed out handbills this morning to help along the campaigne. I believe that the juniors are pushing it strong, movement and are pushing it move-
Tags are given to those who pay their memorial fund dues. Different colored tags are used for the different classes. The freshman class will wear blue ones, the sophomore class blue ones, the junior class red ones, and the senior class red ones.
"We expect to get our memorial dues for this year collected. Heretofore, the classes have had no well planned and systematical plan of collecting their dues as a result, trouble has usually been experienced in collecting senior dues."
SURVEY MADE OF WATER
Costs $18 a Million Gallons to
Soften and Filter Water
The water laboratory has made a very extensive survey of the filter and softening plants of Kansas. The survey shows that there are about 15,000 hardy plants and many of these are equipped with softeners. The plant at Coffeville has a softener which has been a decided success, according to the citi- tion department, a new plant that is being installed Emporia has a softening equipment.
A filter plant is now on exhibition on the top floor of Blake Hall. The State Water Survey Department in 1980 year ago to test the practicability of the filter from water; and it is now being taken to sediment from the Lawrence city water. The plant has a capacity of 250 gallons an hour. It is a manual model of the plants that are used by most of the city water systems.
The water Survey Department estimates the cost of operating a filter for water, such as, the city of Lawrence has, at $8 a million gallons. With a filter and softener the cost is $10 a million gallons. This includes expenses as well as the cost of installing and maintaining the plant.
Lawrence uses about a million and a quarter gallons a day. It would cost $25 a day to operate a filter and softer the air, and the initial cost would be $25,000.
Debaters off for a Scrimmage
Two debating teams met in Atlanta, Monday for a practice debate on the question, resolved; that the United States should retain the Philippines permanently. Professor Howard T. Doyle, the incoming department accompanied them.
Those who made the trip were Clament Reed, Edwin Price and W. O. Hake, who are on the affirmative and Merle H. Smith, Wayne S. Edwards and Clarendon Havinghurst who are defenders of the negative.
Miss Janette Garlish, from St Joe,
Missouri, was a guest at the Kappa
Alpha Theta house Friday, Saturday
and Sunday.
Elmer Bates, who was a freshman in the college last year, but did not return this year, visited friends on the hill. Friday. Elmer has been at his father's farm, his father on the farm, near Perry. He intends to come back next year.
The Weather
Tuesday: Fair and colder tonight and tomorrow, fair with raining temp.
MORNING PRAYERS
Week of March 7-10
Leader, Prof. A. MacMurray.
Naughty.
Subject:
Wednesday, "The Work Habit."
Thursday, "The Two Selves."
Friday, "The Sons of Martha."