UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN 10. （ ） ▼ VOLUME XIII. UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS, FRIDAY AFTERNOON, MARCH 5. 1916. COBB CHIEF SPEAKER Popular Humorist Will Talk to Newspapermen in May A DILLER A DOLLAR AN 8:00 OCLOCK CHAPEL. OH, WHY MUST IT COME SO SOOON? — NAPIER ISSUES PROGRAM WE NEVER GET UP IN TIME TO ATTEND, AND WE ARE CAUSED SOMUCH RUSHING AT NOOON— Members of Sunflower Fourth Estate to Discuss Problems The program for the annual meeting of the Kansas Editorial Association which takes place at the University of Kansas on May 16th, a connection with Newspaper Week is announced today by J. L. Napier, president. Irvin Cobb will deliver the principal address unless he is called back to the war zone. Discussions and lectures on problems that the country editor must face daily will be given by different specialists and by Kansas editors. sas editors. On the program are: John Redmond, Burlington Republican, "Newspaper Office Sidelines"; E. E. Hagenbuch, Kiowa Journal, "Co-operating with Position Advertisers"; Roy Bailey, Salina Journal, Handling Advertising"; J. Frank Smith, PleasantonObserverEnterprise, "Obligation of the Editor to His Community"; Clyde Knox, Independence Reporter, reading of "Journalism the Orient," written by Mack P. Gretcher, Department of Education, Manila, P. I.; Charles H. Brown, "Estimating W. A. Hill, Plainville Times" cooperation in the Local Field; R. G. Hemenway, Haven Journal; "Capitalizing the Country Correspondent"; Discussions following these papers are assigned to a number of editors. Plain Tales from the Hill But the meeting will not be all work. On Friday the domestic science girls at the University will serve lunch to the editors. At 7 o'clock Friday evening a dedicated Ditch Lunch and Deserted Cabaret" is scheduled by Robinson Gymnasium to winning story by Kansas newspaper woman or editor's wife on "If I had my life to live over again would I marry a Kansas editor?" will be read Saturday noon. Later the judges will be shown the seismograph, the only one in Kansas, and how it responds to earthquakes, demonstrations with liquid air, testing concrete with 40,000 pounds pressure, testing water for Kansas cities, commercial for Kansas clay, food and drugs. Then the judges will be the guests of the University at an intercollegiate baseball game. At 7 o'clock a banquet and musical program will be given after which Irvin Cobb is scheduled to speak. Henry Samson, engineer 16, returned from a trip to Kansas City where he has been having his eyes treated. Ruth Goldsworthy, Junior College, has moved from 601 Indiana St. to 908 Indiana. Her parents are moving back to their farm near Severy, but she will remain until the end of the school year. A certain sorority on the hill considers putting out a revised edition of Mother Goose, which applies to every day life. One prominent the writer ran Several students gave a concert between acts at the Linwood senior play last night. Margaret Young and Josephine Lamborn sand, accompanied by Ruth Kelley on the ukelele. Miss Rath Litchen, '15 College, is manager of the play. eve "Hickory, dickory, dock, the rat狸 up the clock," —would refer to a strange cat which nearly ate the household into hysterical springing unexpectedly. On top of the choice, Grandfather's clock, when opened this morning, for its weekly winding. (Yes, but what's the name of the corority? - Editor) Dr. Arthur Broden is attending the convention of the National Mission ray Society in Chicago this week. Professor Burdick goes to the penitentiary on business for the state as a member of the civil service commission. What has become of the old-fashioned student who arose at five and studied until breakfast? The Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity hold its Founders' Day banquet at the chapter house Wednesday night. Hayden Hunter, Engineer '16, has gone to Springfield, Mo., to do railroad work. He has already finished his course at K. U. and will receive his degree in June. a professor Miss Anne Gittings, secretary of the C. W. A., addressed a meeting of the Kansas City University association Tuesday morning. Guy Chamberlain, one of the men around whom Nebraska's efficient football machine has been built, is now a professional. He has signed a contract with the Indianapolis club in the Indianapolis Association and will no longer be allowed to compete in national athletics. Chamberlain said to be a left-handed player of no mean ability, he has been given of great service to Nebraska on the diamond as well as or the gridiron. Miss Grace Charles, assistant profofice of botany, has been unable to meet her classes this week on account of sickness. In Prof. Arthur MacMurray's temporary unaccompanied class this morning, Otis H. Burns was given the subject to take on. He made a good speech, at the conclusion of which Professor MacMurray called on Duke Kennedy to criticize it. Kennedy remarked that he could not give any adverse criticism, that the speech on the whole was very fine and the gestures were very swan-like. Reed Golden, sophomore College, has left for his home in Kensington because of the illness of his mother. He expects to be in school again in about two weeks. The next in the series of Y. W. lectures, be "The Dramatization of她 by Prof. Wm. A. McKeever, head of the University child welfare department, at Myers Hall, Thursday, March 2, 7 to 8. Capt. Frank E. Jones, of Company M, today received an order from regimental headquarters making CorpGail A. Smith a sergeant and promoting Floyd Livengoed, Grant Smith, and Robert Grinstead to corporal M. Although these promotions were made by the regiment as he men, Colonel Metcalf promoted these men after a competitive quiz in which eight men took part. Mrs. Stanton Olinger's Sunday School class, of the Presbyterian church, enjoyed a chafing dish supper at Westminster Hall Tuesday at 6:30. These suppers are held every month and the members all report a fine time. Agnes Smith, '19 Fine Arts, who was called to her home in Springfield, Ill., on account of the death of her mother has returned to the University. George Woodward, a freshman in the George and Dutch Urihiau, a for- K. U. student, returned from Fort Scott Saturday. They played basketball with the Fort Scott all-stars against the Lowe-Campbells from Kansas City, Friday night. The all-stars won 43 to 38. Paul Schmidt, sophomore College went to his home in Junction City, Friday, to work for his brother for a couple of days. He returned yesterday. Francis Campbell, freshman College, is one of the latest additions to Company M, K, N, G. Campbell thinks it is but a matter of ten years until the U.S. will have compulsory military training and he wants his while he can get it voluntarily. The sophomore women's basketball team spent the noon hour yesterday in hard practice in order to keep in trim for the freshman battle of March 11. Professor Hopkins in the prose-invention class: "What is an abstract idea, Mr. McGuire?" The Franklins were told over the telephone last night that their chimney was on fire. By the joint application of salt and water the fire was checked. ENGLISHMAN TO TALK idea. McGuire: "An abstract idea is one that cannot be expressed." G. Lowes Dickinson Will Discuss International Reconstruction After War G. Lowes Dickinson, a fellow of King's College, Cambridge University, will lecture in Fraser chapel March 22 at 4:30 on the subject of "International Reconstruction After the War." Mr. Dickinson has been in America on two previous occasions, once in 1889 and again in 1909. On these visits he lectured to the leading universities and colleges of the country and created a very favorable impression in the course of the trip. He toured the world in 1912-13 as the holder of an Albert Kahn Travelling Fellowship. Mr. Dickinson is the author of a number of books. The best known are "Letters of John Chinman" and "A Modern Symposium." The first book appeared anonymously in 1902 and for several years was thought to have been written by a Chinman. Other books by Dickinson are "From King to King" and "Revolution in Modern France." He has been a frequent contributor to magazine in America and in Eng. His article in the Atlantic Monthly several months ago on the subject "The War and the Way Out" attracted much attention in this country. Mr. Dickinson is a peace advocate and for some time has been engaged with Lord Bryce in an effort to establish a league of peace. It is on this mission that he present tour of the United States. He is a lecturer at the London School of Economics and Political Science and is considered an authority on international relations. The Englishman is a member of the Advisory Council for the study of International Religion. This Council was formed in 1915 for the purpose of promoting an impartial view of relations between the various countries. Charles Eggen, a junior Engineer, got off the eighth o'clock K. U. car Wednesday, looking rather gloomy. When asked the reason, he said, "I have been so unfortunate as to get on this car several times of change than a day and every time, and to me twenty nickels in change. Today I thought I had a five dollar bill and a dime but I must have lost that meedie. I gave the my five and this time I ninety-nine dollars in change. The trolley will sore at me for pulling the troley off his car last fall on the night of the night of the shirt-tall parade." Plain Tales from the Hill Mary Jane Morrison, freshman College from Newton, went to the University hospital Wednesday afternoon with the measles. There are so many cases that the doctors advise those who have not had it to be careful. Ernest E. Lyder, graduate student, who has been in the university infirmary the last week, suffering from an attack of acute appendix infection new convalescent. He is a member of State Chemical Research Bureau. Phi Alpha Tau Initiates Phi Alpha Tau, honorary dramatic fraternity, initiated the following at the Phi Psi House last night: Leland Thompson, Walter Havekorst and Clarendon Havinghurst. They were chosen from the cast of the "Witching Hour." Miss. Lillian Zimmerman, of Milwaukee, Wis., returned Thursday, from Baldwin, to visit at the Alpha Chi Omega House, before going to Norman, Okla., where she will visit the chapter of Alpha Chi Omega Kappa Kappa Gamma entertained the mothers of the members living in Lawrence at dinner, Wednesday night at the Kappa house. The guests were Mesdames Guenther, Fogarty, Pryor and Rickard. Prof. G. C. Shad, of the department of Electrical Engineering, entertained the visiting speakers of the Conference at luncheon, Wednesday at the University Club. The guests were C. E. Reid, of Manhattan; W. F. Barnes, O. E. Marbel, F. R. Johnson, of Kansas City; Pro. C. Lanier from the University of Missouri; Carl Hambuecher of St Louis; N. J. Dicks, Denver, W. E. Sweezey and R. W. E. Sweezey of Wellington; W. Weice and Mr. Spray of Topeka The Lawrence guests were L. J Kirkham, R. E. A. Putman, F. C Arnold, Dean P. F. Walker, F. E Johnson and C. A. Johnson. Alpha Chi Omega held its annual Hera day program Tuesday evening for members and friends. The program consisted of music and stereotopic views of Europe. The proceeds go to keep up a bed in Mercy Hospital, in Kansas City. EXPRESS YOUR OPINION! Wanted: the man or woman who really thinks that the geological display northeast of Snow Hall beautifies the campus, ___. The class in history of American painting has just learned that there is a cause for the firm, drawn expression around Washington. He said, "Portrait by Stuart. It seems that Mr. Peale, an energetic painter and also investor You must register at the city clerk's office before 10:00 o'clock Friday night if you want to vote in the city election, March 14. Every professor and student of Lawrence who is 21 years old should take this opportunity to express his opinion on the water question. Any student who is twenty-one years of age and willing to declare Lawrence as his place of residence can vote. Since the students pay no small sum of the city's taxes as rent they should exercise their right to the ballot. find and exercise their right to the air. Every time You take a drink of the hard and discolored city water you usually express what you think of it. Why fail to express your opinion at the poles where it will do some good? of Washington's time, made a set of false teeth for the president and that these teeth, like many inventions of the time, although they served their purpose, did not fit. Prof. E. M. Hopkins lectured Tuesday afternoon to the Progressive Reading Club of Lawrence on "Literary Criticism" at the home of Mrs. Thomas N. Castles, 1314 Tennessee. Prof. E. M. Hopkins, in talking to his class in American literature, gave a Homeric nod, thulay: "as an example of this new style of fiction in New England we have Mrs. Stowe's 'Little Women.'" Following a line party at the Kansas-Missouri basketball game, a crowd of young women entertained with a dancing party at the home of Ethel Hill, 825 Missouri St. Tuesday night. The evening, because of its intimacy, so the young ladies in it. Those who danced with Frances Kennedy, Edna Williams, Maude Moore, Ruth Dummie, Zedda Pipes, Mary Roberts, and Hill; Jack Anton Williams, and Hill; Jackson Seybold, Powell and Campbell, of Odessa, Mo., Jesse Campbell and Harley Hyde of the Missouri basketball squad. John L. Marshall, architectural engineer, '18, took in a Leap Year party at Rosedale last night. The Heims Electric Line has announced that it will begin running electric cars to Kansas City, March 17. The fare will be sixty-five cents and the thirty-three cents will come in handy for the track meet that day. Miss Ruth Wenks, a teacher in a junior College recently installed at Kansas City, Missouri, visited classes on the Hill the first part of the week. While here she stayed at the Gamma Phi Beta house. Henry Gott, the southern Kansas humorist, has again started the eating public by offering a reward to the person who will invent a satisfactory sideboard attachment for plates. HOSPITAL TREATS MANY Fall 2200 Dispensary Cases and 49 Resident Patients Since Nearly 2,200 dispensary cases have been treated at the University Hospital since November 1st. There have been fifty-five resident patients, Grip, appendicitis, and injuries have been the most common causes of resident treatment. Miss Jessie Reed, Superintendent of the Dispensary, says that most of the former men and that most of the injuries treated resulted from athletics. Some of the patients, many of whom had eye traumas, were taken to Rosedale hospital of the lack of facilities for treatment here. At present five persons are being cared for in the hospital. pitfall nurses. Molly Hight, the visiting nurse, has taken relief to 157 people. Whenever a student feels below par, he may telephone her to inform her of town doctors still have the privilege of getting a nurse and medicine from the hospital. Twenty-seven small pox vaccinations, 98 typhoid inoculations, 20 antogenous vaccine treatments, and 19 bacteriological and chemical imitations have been made by键盘skepto on file at the dispensary office. Miss Reed says that the two dollar hospital fee and the expense of up-keep will run about even. Chas. Hagenbuch, Marcellus Stockton, Glendon Alvine, Alfred Weitters, and James Lyne went to Kansas City Wednesday morning to attend the alumni of the Pt Upsilian fraternity. The banquet was held at the K. C. A. C. house. Ralph Metcalf, '18 College, is having some trouble with his course in New Testament Greek. Recently he got the idea of dropping it but the adviser would not allow it, and he action like yours." "This stuff is like molasses; I have my hands in it and now I can neither pick it up nor get away from it." "Q, bachelor?" innocently inquired a student of Roman history as Professor Patterson was telling the class about a man of ancient times who did his own housework. He told him that Patterson who became so confused that he was unable to resume his speech for several moments. "Watch Your Stop," last week's musical comedy production at the Shubert, proved the motive for Don Davis' week-end visit to Kansas City rather than the event to the city on one of the early trains Saturday morning, but returned the Colonial party that night. Ruth Daniels, '17 College, is enjoying a visit from her sister, Miss Mary Daniels, of Hiawatha. JUNIOR FORMAL READY Everything Prepared For Big Third Year Party In Gym Tonight CABS AND FLOWERS TABOO Managers Issue Edict—Black and White Decorations Everything is in readiness for the Junior Prom tonight. white. and flowers have been tabbed by Paul Friend and Norman Foster, prom managers, and by Blondie Jones president of the class. The orchestra will stand in the center of the floor. Robinson Gymnastics is gayly decorated in a striking combination of black and white, and this scheme is used throughout. A colored paper lattice forms the ceiling of programs highrise with the color armrests, and will be given out by Little girls dressed in black and white. Cabaret singers will sing to the different groups being served refreshments during the evening. The periods of refreshments will come during the 6th, 7th and 8th, the 11th, 12th and 13th and the 16th, the 17th and 18th dances. Dancing will continue until two o'clock. Word has just been received from Ray Hall at Topeka, saying that his eight piece orchestra will be in Lawrence tonight. Chancellor and Mrs. Frank Strong, Governor and Mrs. Arthur Capper, the deans of the different schools, the members of the State Board of Administration and officials of the junior class will receive. The Grand March will start at 8:15 led by the prom managers, Foster and Friend. Those who will receive are asked to come at eight. At ten o'clock this morning 125 tickets had been sold, a few less than last year. The check stand in Fraser did a brisk business all morning. The money came in much faster than at any time previously. Aumni Will Hear Old Songs Tonight When the Princeton alumni gather in various cities tonight, March 3, for their annual celebration, one song, the famous hymn of the Princeton University, "Old Nassau," will be sung from New York to San Francisco by transcontinental telephone. The Princeton Glee Club is to sing around the table at which the New York alumni will gather in the Princeton Club and thus Princeton cheers are to be heard from New York to the Pacific coast. Beware of Cutting Cuts (Tay) If you have been exposed to habit of cutting curses, the classes you may be unaware that there is a faculty ruling compelling students to attend the classes or be suspended from the university. This is not the only school which boasts of the same ruling. Educators are critical in the need of physics work as mental health recently at the University of Chicago twenty five students were suspended for failure to attend their physical culture exercises. They were first notified to attend but ignored the notices. ware of Cutting Gym A certain sophomore living in the twelve hundred block on Louisiana street likes to sleep late and with no early classes can enjoy the luxury without any penalty. So far so good. But now the plot. The location of the sleeping porch is downstairs just off the landlord's parlor, while the sleeper's room is on the second story. Comfort is important. A pretty co-ed in the Fine Arts School is the piano for practice during the very hours the tired sofp is getting his last winks. Trapped on the porch, the soph has to wait in patience until the practice session is over at 10:30 or get up at 9. "I meet K." U. boys all over the state," said Coach "Bill" Hargiss of the Emporia State Normal, "and, as a general thing, I can call their names," Coach Hargiss was formerly undercoach at the University, and learned the names of most of the five hundred men under him. Miss Etta Dunlap, of Bonner Springs is the guest of Ethel Frame, and Margaret Fredrick, both special students, Thursday and Friday. The Weather The eater Friday; it to warm and Saturday with rising temperature. MORNING PRAYERS Week of March 7-10 Leader, Prof. A. MacMurray Monday, "The Bible as Good Reading," "Younger," "The Young Man Absa- Tuesday, "The Young Man Absor- Wednesday, "The Work Habit" Thursday, "The Two Selves" Friday, "The Sons of Martha."