UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
THEATRE VARSITY
The College Theatre
TONIGHT 7:40-9:15 Henry W. Savage presents DOROTHY DONNELLY in "MADAME X" By Alexandre Bisson
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LITERATURE AND WAR
Scarcely two years have elapsed since the opening of the war in Europe, but in that short time it has had a marked effect on the literature of the world. With the increased calamity to the nations and races, brought on by the war, men of thought are everywhere trying to find out what is wrong with the world and to offer remedies. Many books are appearing that are in a way valuable, even though they are small bits of literature gathered from all phases of the world-strife.
The most noticeable feature of the present day literature is the number of books dealing wholly with war topics, or indirectly connected with them. One cannot glance through an American magazine today without seeing several articles pertaining to the strife. A majority of the new books by American writers deal with phases of the struggle for supremacy among the nations of Europe.
Some of the latest literary works are on "Preparedness," which is at present the big issue in the United States. The hold that these books has taken is emphasized by the fact that out of a list of thirty-two new books, in a recent number of the Independent, ten were on subjects of war. The next greatest number of articles pertained to art and religion, with four each. History and fiction claimed three each and poetry, music, sociology and science, two each. In another list of new books in another American magazine, there were twenty books on war. However, the increase in the number of war books, has not only meant a falling off in the books on other subjects, but also has
decreased the number of new books written in America.
When the European War started, literary critics predicted a slump in European books and an increase in American works. But, according to a review of books made recently by the New York Times, the war has caused r pronounced decrease in the American literary production. During the year of 1914, approximately 12,000 new books appeared in America as compared with 9,700 in 1915, a good per cent of which have been either directly or indirectly connected with war and its side-issues.
Heizer To Address Circle
Heizer To Address Circle Randolph Heizer of Constantinople, will speak to the French Circle at 4:30 Wednesday afternoon on his life at Constantinople. Everybody invited.
PROFESSOR ADISES CITY
TO PUCHASE, WATER PLANT
Professor B. F. Moore of the department of Political Science is in favor of the proposition of the city acquiring the local waterworks plant in order to provide it with discussing the question before the class at 1:30 o'clock, he said, "The city would undoubtedly be securing their money's worth as the amount of purchase price was determined by a fair and impartial board of engineers."
He added, "The water company could not improve the plant if it so desired. The franchise has only eight years to run, expiring in 1924. Because of the shortness of the time and the uncertainty attached to the removal of the franchise no money can be secured by loans or by bonds.
TUESDAY AND FRIDAY ARE
FRESHMAN MEMORIAL DAYS
Thursday and Friday of this week will be collection days for the Freshman Memorial Fund. This is according to the decision of the Freshman Memorial Fund Committee which believes the work of collecting should be completed within the two days.
Recently Alfred Bennett, chairman of the committee appointed a number of assistants, who will aid him with mornings, midday and Friday. These persons are applied with Memorial tags and are authorized to make the collections. Chairman Bennett is anxious that every member of the Freshman class sees this week-end. The amount has been fixed at ten cents.
Sphinx Society meets Wednesday night, March 1, Sig Alph house at 7:30. Important business.
All persons interested in the study of birds are asked to meet in Room 104, Snow Hall, Thursday, March 2, at 8 p.m. to discuss the matter of organizing the Ornithology Club. All persons who are open to all persons who are interested, whether members of the university or not.
Plain Tales
Romulus B. Church, '18, has purchased a new two dollar cap that resembles a bunch of mistletoe, a bunch of mistletoe is pay for a cap, but the chance of some fair co-eed mistaking it for the magic plant is cheap at that price.
Dr. Alice L. Goetz, head of the physical training department, entertained the district leaders and the staff of the dama with a tea Sunday afternoon.
Mr. C, D. Bunker, curator of the Dyche Museum, has received two pleasant skins within the last two weeks from W. C. Tergmeier, state attorney for the Department. The pleasants were found frozen on the hatchery, and were sent to Mr. Bunker to be mounted. Mr. Bunker says that the English pendants have been imported and propagated in the U.S. and the United country, climate, and unscrupulous hunters have hindered the efforts of the enthusiasts so far.
PEACE BY ENLIGHTENING
Send the Daily Kansan home.
Do you realize that you are going up against the other fellow's game when you buy some special policy of life insurance that cannot be compared' to the standard policies of other companies?
Polity Club Speaker Would Educate People Against War
To secure anything along peace lines it must be done by enlightened self interests, Arnold B. Hall, professor of International Law at the University of Wisconsin, told the members of the International Polity Club last night at the Pi Upsilon house. "If war would prove to be more costly than the seding and that people would have to realize that other means than war would have to be arrived at to settle international disputes.
"I consider that we will come to the place where we realize that war does not pay, that man is a rational being and being a rational he will be willing a war does not pay," said Professor H. H. H. McCormick in the first era of the pacifist movement. The Christian era had its many pacifists. The second was the humanitarian era. We are now in the scientific era, an era that I consider in by Norman Angell through his famous book, The Great Illusion."
Professor Hall said that the most difficult obstacle the parrisists had to overcome in trying to get the masses to adopt their ideas was the cry of the armatists that one should be "willing to give up everything" named Theodore Roosevelt and Lyman Abbott as the two strongest advocates of the "primitive appeal."
Some effective league of peace should be established, said Professor Hall. He would secure it by leaguing the leading powers together and thus at the same time reduce armament to a point where only the arbitrate international disputes, and establishing a power to force conciliatory means of arbitration.
"It may take another war to bring this question of international peace to fruition," Polly Club speaker said, but if it is not a problem while we have the awful example of the evils of war before us it is because people have not met the problem of the day.
The International Polity Club will have Prof. G. Lowe Dickinson of Cambridge University, as its next speaker, March 22.
SEISMOGRAPH RECORDS
BIGGEST QUAKE OF YEAR
The University seismograph located in Blake Hall recorded an earthquake at 7:35 a.m. on the entire wave lasted for almost two hours. The primary wave started at 2:27:15 and continued until 2:32:35 and began at 2:36:15 and ended at 4:06.
The estimated distance of the disturbance is 2200 miles which places the earthquake in Costa Rica in Central America. The greatest motion of the recording needle was one-fourth inch.
"This disturbance," said Prof. F. E. Kester of the Physics department, "is one of the most interesting recorded this year."
Bright colors will soon be lacking in the apparel of the students and they will be compelled to wear gray t-shirts when reports from Washington. The department of commerce announces that the supply of dyes from Europe has been exhausted and the domestic limitation is limited to black and grays.
"You all know how Tennyson has immortalized Paul Revere by his famous poem, 'The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere,'" said Richard Treweek to the history of painting class Thursday.
"Pi," the intellectual white bull dog belonging to the Pi U's, caught a rabbit Tuesday while out on a vacation hike with some of his friends. Those who have observed "Pi's" movements about the campus are in doubt as to whether the rabbit was sick, or merely a cripple.
A historical spectacle called the "Paget of Oregon" will be presented at the University of Oregon commencement on June 2nd.
STUDENT TAKES UP WORK
ON NEBRASKA NEWSPAPER
Lawrence Smith, a special in the College, has withdrawn from the University to go to Beatrice, Neb., where he will be circulation manager of the Beatrice Chronicle. Smith has had four years experience as an ad-hoc reporter for the Oklahoma newspaper field. The Beatrice Chronicle was established by John M. Henry, a former K. U. student, with the avowed purpose of running the saloons out of the town. Henry has the anti-saloon league of his hometown behind him, and will soon launch a campaign against the liquor interests.
Law Students Object to Elimination of Dittmer in Contest
THEY ARE ALL PEEVISH
The law students object to the elimination of their Vanity Fair candidate Otto H. Dittmer, from the contest by the managers of the Jayhawker.
If the Campus Were Beautified-
They are indignant about it. As they have no women enrolled in the school, they think that they have a right to be represented in the Añual.
Members of the middle Law class held a meeting Monday afternoon under the direction of Tom Mullyon, Here, to be appointed to fight the matter to a finish.
It was decided by those present that a committee be selected to take up the matter with the managers of the Jayhawker. The men who are to serve on the committee are chosen. The Law students even threaten to use litigation, if necessary.
Whether they succeed in persuading the managers of the Annual to let their beautiful candidate remain in the contest still remains to be seen. At this stage, the law taken by the law students will not change Otto Dittmer's firm conviction that the fellows played a good joke upon him.
A student in the University of Missouri, though admitting that he was not as brave as the Kansas man who walked barefoot in the snow for six hours by wearing a panama hat to class in order to win a thirty cent meal bet.
Grover Cleveland Moore, of Wayne, Kansas., who attended the University two years ago, has returned to complete his College course. During his absence he has been taking farming and other healthful exercise with the result that he now weighs 225 pounds. He has returned to the University in order to keep the equilibrium between his mind and body.
The University of California has a student cooperate store and is about to issue an inventory showing its operations during the past year.
"Darn it, I'll have to get out those old rubbers and wear 'em some more." With these cheerful Al Jennings, of San Marcos, Texas, greeted the rosy dawn Monday when he awoke and found the ground covered with snow. Al doesn't like cold weather, you know, and never, until he came to K. U., had he been forced to grow acorns been used to wading around in the rocky river bed, and an icy street successfully without the aid of a pair of rubbers. Jennings is a student in the Oread high school. He will enter the University next fall.
FOUND IN A BOOK
A *Corner for the Library Browser*
*When a hunter goes out with a gun after game, he does not consider it good to shoot; he shatters a beef or flying fowl without first giving the victim a chance for its life, and an opportunity to give the alarm to its fellow; yet our army and navy men, under the present gag rule, are capable of capturing a four-foured cape being shot, through our national unpreparedness, or even to give the cry of warning to their fellows. Even the murdered is given a chance to present his case before being executed, as we have seen in *The Forsyth* (forged any such opportunity)." -From "Defenseless America," by Hudson Mason
It has been suggested that class memorial money go for campus beautification. This is how the Museum would look with the addition of a few window boxes.
The president's annual report for the University of California shows that the expenditures for the year ended March 30, 1955, exceeded the income the university allocated to the total income was $2,636,500, against total income was $2,662,800.
The University of Michigan has 29 graduates who are members of the 64th congress. Harvard has 20, Yale 16, Columbia 9, Amherst 4, Princeton 4, Brown 3, Lafayette 3, Navy 2, Army 2,
A computation has been made showing that the University of Syracuse brings four million dollars annually to the city of Syracuse.
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Bowersock Theatre
TODAY ONLY
Matinee...2:30----4:00
Night...7:45----9:15
FLORENCE ROCKWELL
IN
"He Fell in Love With his Wife"
An intensely dramatic and appealing love story with a whirlwind finish; from the book by E. P. Roe.
Also Paramount Bray Comedy Cartoons. Nothing ever shown on the screen has ever produced as much real amusement to any audience as the Bray Animated Cartoons.
Coming Wednesday BLANCHE SWEET in
"THE WARRENCS OF VIRGINIA."