UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOLUME XIII.
MILLIKAN TO GIVE TALK
Physics Authority Will Lecture in Fraser Friday Afternoon
Prof. R. A. Millikan, the Chicago University man whose name is ever associated with physics and physics text boks in the mind of the American public, will lecture before the University Friday, December 3, at 4:30 in Fraser殿 on the subway; also give a second lecture Saturday morning at 10:30 on "The Nature of Radiant Energy."
Professor Millikan is one of the foremost physicists in America and has received universal recognition from all the world for his extensive work in physical science and as an author of numerous text books and articles that have come to be used almost every high school and university in the country. One of his greatest achievements in scientific literature is his translation from the German of Drude's "Theory of Optics." Likewise his various articles on the modern electron theory are now accredited with being the most complete and comprehensive works published twenty years. Professor Millikan is now one of the editors of "The Physical Review."
Sigma Xi to Give Reception
Besides his purely academic work he has taken an active part in different scientific societies, and at different times has held such important of all the scientific societies as the American Scientific society. Professor Kester of the physics department in speaking of him this morning said, "Millikan is not only a fine scientist, but also an excellent speaker and every inspiring."
Professor Millikan and his wife will arrive in Lawrence Friday morning, and will be accompanied by his sasor and Mrs. Kester while here. He will be given a reception by the honorary scientific fraternity, Sigma Xi Friday night, in Chicago. Professor and Mrs. Millikan will leave Saturday afternoon for their home in Chicago.
the baseball schedule will be arranged, also.
CUT OUT THE COFFIN NAILS
Professor W. A. McKeever Says Cigarette Habit Is First Step Toward Alcoholism
NUMBER 56.
"Kansas is on the eve of a desperate fight with the cigarette evil," said Prof. W. A. McKeever today. "And when it develops to the limit it will be a fierce contest between the relatives and friends of the Kansas youth. Millions of dollars will be at stake in this fight. Already the Attorney General of the State has written to all the county attorneys asking them to tighten up the enforcement of the State Federation of Women's Clubs, the W. C. T. U., the State Teachers' Association, the Child Welfare Department of the University, and thousands of individuals acting singly—all these are joining activity in an attack on the arch enemy of the Kansas youth.
"I appeal to the students of the University to cut out the use of cigarettes for the sake of the institution, for the sake of the boys of Kansas being the students being the cigarette is the first step toward alcoholism. It is the ally of juvenile delinquency, and sex perversion. The University student who requests a friend's friendship to law and no sense of responsibility to the younger generation of boys. The Lawrence high school is one of the worst in the State for cigarette infection and the pastry students for setting the bad example.
"When I go out on a child welfare and attempt to outline some methods for the prevention of the youthful vice of cigarette smoking the people turn upon me with the charge that this evil is most common in Kansas. This charge, a vast diversity of Kansas. This charge is difficult to meet and it is often most embarrassing. So again, I appeal to the young students here, cut out the 'coffin nails,' help maintain the traditional Kansas spirit, help us to win in our fight and to preserve the tradition of the thousands of younger boys who are looking to you for an example of manliness."
Prof. F. B. Dains talked on the subject "Relation of Organic Chemistry to Pharmacy" before the Pharmaceutical Society yesterday morning in the lecture room in the Chemistry building.
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS, WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, DECEMBER 1, 1915.
W. S. G. A. HAS RAISIED
$25.00 FUND FOR TREASURY
Twenty-five dollars was raised toward the completion of the W. S. G. A. scholarship fund, by that body August 16, the moving picture benefactor, gave it and the lifting of the ban on mid-week dates combined to net the sum.
MAY DEBATE AT BOWERSOCK
Argument With Huskers Will Probably Be in Theater, Business Man-
ager Says
The Nebraska-Kansas debate, to be held in Lawrence on December 10, may be given at the Bowersock Theater instead of Fraser Hall Chapel, which made this morning by Harold Mattoon, business manager of the debate.
"It all depends upon whether we 'will be able to pay for the extra cost of giving the debate at the Bowersock," he said. "The majority of the audience at debates is formed of people who are not academics or athletic tickets. If we can guarantee enough cash admissions, the debate will probably be taken down-town."
The Kansas teams—which are now working on their material for the debate—will make trips to three Kansas towns and give their debate, before "springing it" on the Cornhuskers. In this way the speakers will be enabled to secure practice in speaking before strange audiences.
Better stage facilities, and the creation of wider interest through presentation at the Bowersock, are for changing the place of debate.
PLAY COMPETITION IS KEEN
Fifty Dollar Prize Has Brought Out Many Contestants—Seniors May Produce the Production
Considerable interest is being shown in the Drama Prize Competition being conducted by the University Dramatic Club, according to Prof. Arthur MacMurray, director of the Arthritis Association committee. Nine people have entered the contest, and will submit their plays sometime before January 10. The author of the best play will be awarded a prize of fifty dollars. If his play is such that it can be proclaimed by the senior class at commencement.
"Prospects certainly look fine," said Professor MacMurray this morning, "and it appears as though we are going to get good results. I sincerely hope we secure a high class play. I know that there are students in the University who can write them, if they will only try."
Choose Familiar Subject
"Stick close to the things you are familiar with," was the advice of Stuart W. Warnock of Portmantueau Theater, to the competitors. His words were reiterated by Professor MacMurray. "Get a play about college life," he said. "Grasp the things around you, and put them into your story. College students more than anyone else should know college life, and are consistently fitted to write about it."
Professor MacMurray stated this morning that he would be glad to talk with any prospective contestant. He will be in his office, Room 6 of Green Hall, any time after 9:30 o'clock on Tuesdays and Thursdays.
If the prize winning play is produced by the seniors, it will be published, according to Professor Mac Murray.
Years ago when there was no higher education in Kansas S. N. Simpson together with a few others interested, began this campaign to establish a large personal subscriptions had been collected to buy a suitable site, the first building was created. Mr. Simpson, besides his connection with the early life of K. U., was always a loyal friend. He was also active in state politics.
In the death of S. N. Simpson this week the University of Kansas has lost a friend and benefactor. The deceased was held yesterday in Lawrence.
S. N. SIMPSON PASSES AWAY— HELPED ESTABLISH K. U
Mr. Simpson was eighty nine when he died.
Three professors will represent K U. at the meeting of the Kansas State Horticultural Society in Topeka, December 1. S. J. Hunter will make a report in the afternoon on the State Entomological Survey, W. H. Tenhofel will give the evening lecture, followed by Arthur McMurray in his "Readings from James Whitcomb Riley".
In Civil War times he visited every part of the state, lecturing against them.
Wear Those White Tags Again Tomorrow!
The earnest appeal from Charles F. Scott for the cause of Beigium opened many hearts this morning. White tags were sold as fast as the Y. W, women could dispose of them after convocation, but many complaints have been made to the effect that those who wanted to contribute could not find anybody to take the money.
Tomorrow will be Tag Dag, too. Wear your white tags again and tell everybody to come on the Hill with some money. Y. W. women will be stationed in every building on the campus and everybody will have a chance to give. Starving women and children, wounded soldiers and wandering students on the old continent appeal to you for help.
EVERYBODY—WEAR A WHITE TAG TOMORROW!
K. U. WOMAN TO EUROPE WILL BOX AT MIXER
Blanche Mullen Chosen
Accompany Henry Ford on
His Peace Expedition
Miss Blanche Mullen, '16 College, and president of the W. S. G. A. has been appointed by Mrs. Eustace Brown with the approval of Chancellor Frank Strong and the advsory board of the W. S. G. A. to accompany Henry Ford on the peace ship Oscar II. Mrs. Brown received the telegram this morning from Mr. Young, minister in charge of young woman student in the University to make the trip on his peace mission.
VAN DER VRIES IS CHAIRMAN
After careful consideration Mrs. Brown named Miss Mullen as a candidate and sent her name to Mr. Ford. He agreed. She graph Miss Mullen this evening and she will probably leave tomorrow morning for New York. She will sail December. She miss Mullen in all will be going to Georgia to do the door-to-door other representative will be named.
K. U. Man Chosen Head of Mathe matics Organization—Meets Here Next
Dean H. L. Butler of the School of Fine Arts, presided at a songfest in the high school auditorium at Dodge City last night. Today he will be in Hutchinson for the State Music Teachers' Association, where he will deliver two addresses, and give two groups of songs.
Prof. J. N. Van der Vries of the department of mathematics was elected chairman of the Southwestern Division of the American Mathematical Society in a meeting of the organization in Chicago during the Thanksgiving holidays.
The team of '08-99 won four out of seven games, the team of '04-105 won four out of seven games, and the team of '05-68 won eleven out of its nineteen games. Most of these games were played in the small gymnasium, but we played a rink that was tired for the purpose.
GRADUATE IS BUILDING
WORLD'S LARGEST BRIDGE
The University of Kansas was chosen as the meeting place for the next annual session. The Southwest universities of the Missouri Valley
Eight years ago there was no "real" gymnasium. The first gym class was held in the basement of Snow Hall in 1894. From these quarters Doctor Naisimh sent out many winning basketball teams.
Frank M. Corteloyu who graduated with honors from the School of Engineering of the University in 1908, is superintending the construction of a dam that will span the Columbia river connecting Portland, Oregon, with Vancouver, Washington, a distance of 17,200 feet. There are approximately 2,225 men employed on the works at the total cost is estimated at $1,750,000.
Cortelyou, who was a Sigma Nu and also a member of the honorary scientific society. Sigma Xi, was an awarded professor at whom great things were expected.
The two south rooms which are now used as zoology laboratories were then used as the gymnasium. Iron pillars stood in the middle of the. The storeroom was used as a locker room. There were only two showers.
Since leaving the University, he has been employed by H. L. Harrington, a construction engineer of Kansas City.
FIRST BASKETBALL GAMES
WERE PLAYED IN SNOW HALI
Real Prize Fights a Feature of This Year's Football Gathering
Two boxing mills will feature the program to be given at the annual Football Smoker next Wednesday night. This was decided last night at a meeting of the Men's Student Council. Coach Hamilton was instrumental in getting the matches for the occasion and he says the boxers are all fast and wiling to mix things, eschew their old routines and Flynn. These boys are members of the K. C. A. C. and are amateur boxers.
Speches, stunts, special music and the awarding of the "Ks" to the members of the 1915 football team will make up the remainder of the program. Among the speakers will be the captain of the 1916 team who presented Tuesday night by this year's team, and Coach Herman Olcott.
Plenty of smokes will be available and probably eats.
WILL PLAY UP ATHLETICS
Jayhawker to Have Most Elaborate Athletic Section Ever Used in Year Book
An athletic section that will be one-fourth larger than that in any previous Annual will be a feature of the 1916 Jayhawker, according to a statement made this morning by E. M. Hines. It is important that will the section-be larger, but its contents will be such that it should be two-fold more interesting.
Instead of the long, tedious "reviews of the season" which have become almost traditional with the Jayhawker of past years, individual statistics of the track, baseball, and basketball athletics will be given. The conference standing of all teams, and other statistics of a similar nature, and the compiled, will also be included. The write-ups of both men and teams will be brief, snappy, and as full of pep as an "Oh Me!" for Missouri.
Send the Daily Kansan home.
Many Individual Pictures
Illustrations in the section will be one of its strongest features. Individual pictures of all major sport athletes will be used—something that has been unheard of in the past. Snapshot men have been busy during the entire football season, getting views of the games; and twelve picture shots of the players will be used in a feature section. Pictures of track meets and of basketball games wil also be secured for this department of the book.
A sure cure for ivy poisoning is a feature of the paper by Dean Sayre, which appears in volume 27 of the Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science. Dean Sayre advises a student to wear an alcohol, to be applied with a pledge of cotton and immediately removed with dry cotton.
DEAN TEMPLIN IS ENJOYING HIS VACATION
The minor sports are to be given more space than has been allotted to them in books of previous years, Tennis, soccer, and the work of the gym classes will all be "played up," according to Editor Johnson.
IMPORTANT PAPERS READ
AT SCIENTIFIC MEETING
A letter was received at Dean Tempini's office yesterday from the Dean, who is now enjoying a rest in the hills of North Carolina. "There is nothing like it," says Mr. Tempini, "the beautiful weather and splendid scenery is invigorating to say the least." The Dean expects to leave North Carolina this week for Brandon. He will be away on the Christmas holidays with his sister. He left Lawrence the middle of November.
A discussion of the Mason fruit jar, by Agnes Anderson Murray, showed that this popular utensil is short a half point in the quart sizes, and that the zinc caps are very unsanitary. Dean Sayre gave a talk on the chances America has to step to medical plants, formerly raised in Europe. Several other papers and reports are given in this volume together with minutes of the last meeting and the officers of the comin flyer.
JOURNALISTS ADOPT CORDS
Newspaper Students Provide Plan for Distinguishing Members of K.U. Fourth Estate
In the interests of economy and unity, and with the intention of providing a means whereby they may be distinguished from the "common or garden variety" of students, men enrolled in the department of journalism, this morning to wear corudroys as an indication of their profession.
Twenty-five agreed to the plan, which goes into effect December tenth, and others are expected to follow. "Kansas is one of the few big schools of the country that does not have a major force as mentors of the plan said." *Journalism students believe it is a good thing to begin.*
ARMAMENTS ARE DANGEROUS
Armaments, though sometimes necessary, are at all times dangerous. He has instructed the International Polity Club, under whose auspices he came to the University of Kansas. He addressed the Pi Upsilon house at its meeting at the Pi Upsilon house.
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But May be Necessary, Norman Angel Tells International Polity
"I want to urge upon the young men of America," said Mr. Angell, "the intelligent consideration of the problems of nations. For in years to come we need to teach to the men now in our colleges to formulate a rational national policy."
FORMER K. U. CHEMISTS FIND USE FOR WASTE OF ZINC ORP
That the Flotation of the Joplin-Galena slimes, at present a waste product, can be treated on a commercial scale, thereby eliminating the waste of zinc ore, is the belief of锌工业部门. The fellows last year in the Division of State Chemical Research of the University of Kansas.
Their article on the foregoing subject appeared in the November number of the Metallurgical and Chemical Engineering Magazine.
More than a hundred tests were made to determine the following factors: Kind and amount of oil used; effect of adding acid; effect of tem- perature; effect of dilution of pulp; speed of agitation of propellers; time of agitation.
TO HELP FRESHMEN WOMEN
CHOOSE THEIR VOCATIONS
A canvass of the freshmen women is being made by their advisors to see what per cent of them wish to up vocations other than teaching.
"For a number of years," said Miss Winston, head of the Association of College Women's Societies, "teaching has offered the widest field for women but now other fields are opening up and college women will their vocation if they do not prefer it.
The Association of Collegiate Alumni is investigating the new fields open to women and feeling its way to help the freshmen women who do not care to follow teaching as a vocation. A representative of the Board who is acquainted with all the positions in our work will be here in the near future to talk upon the different lines of work. open to women.
The University of Kansas hospital is small and inadequate when compared with the hospital at the University of Nebraska which is equipped to care for 3,000 students besides giving practical instruction in nursing. The University of Kansas here is furnished with eight beds. Serious cases are not accepted but are sent to the University hospital in Kansas City.
Nebraska Hospital Better
Miss Agnes Evans, Reference Librarian of the Extension Division, underwent an operation for appendicitis at her home Sunday afternoon. She is getting along as well as can be expected.
HELP BELGIAN CHILDREN
Charles Scott Urges Loosening Purse Strings to Foreign Waifs of the War
"Never before in the history of the human race has there been a situation so appealing as is the present situation of Europe," Charles F. Scott, ex-congressman and well-known promoter of the Belgian relief movement, in an address delivered in chapel this morning in the heart of the Belgian Christmas fund.
Kansas Sent Flour
"I can think of no more touching purpose than that of bringing a Christmas to the poor little waifs of Belgium," the distingished Kansan continued. "The whole world drops away from a child who awakens Christmas for him. You now have the opportunity to help bring happiness to over 100,000 children who otherwise would have no Christmas."
Vividly picturing conditions in Belgium as he found them when he was there in charge of distributing the shipment of four sent last year to Kansas, Mr. Scott emphasized the recently released organization of the American relief commission in its operations both this and the other side of the water. This commission, he said, has thus far been able to operate at an expense of only to per cent of the turnover, the lowest of any charity organization in the country. This organization has from 50 to 80 relief ships on the seas all the time.
The University and state of Kansas have been foremost in the relief movement, according to Mr. Scott. Millard Schuyler, the first man to recognize a relief committee and to secure a shipment of provisions from England, was a graduate of K. U. Law. He was a highly respected secretary of the American-Belgian Relief Commission, which positions he holds today. Herbert C. Hoover, chairman of the Commission, is a resident of Iola, Kansas.
Belgians Praise U. S.
The speaker also commented upon the almost worshipful thankfulness of the many entertain for the United States, the United States, Louvain was rebuilt, he said, the big plaza was named the Plaza of the United States. Many other cities are named Louvain, including their parks and public squares in honor of the United States.
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SHOSTAC LECTURES TONIGHT Will Discuss "The Future of the Drama" Before the Quill
"The Future of the Drama" is the title of a lecture which P. B. Shoast, of the department of English, will the Quill Club at the Research Fraser Hall. Mr. Shoast is a diligent student of the drama, and has some original, and perhaps startling, will tell of this evening at 8 o'clock.
"The Drama and the Movies;" "The Drama and the Mob;" and "The Revolt in Art" are some of the topics which Mr. Shostac will discuss. He believes that the drama is the high-tech art, and attempts to prove his theory, talking about "The Inter-Relation of the Seven Arts."
Contray to the announcement in last night's Kansan, Mr. Shostac will not deliver a "series of lectures" but will instead post them tonight. "I wish you would please correct that impression," he said to a reporter this morning. "That comment that I am to discuss the 'Western Contemporary Drama' is ridiculous."
Another Class Room
Carpenters will begin work Friday to change Registrar Foster's north office into a class room. The work is expected to be completed within a month, and the class which class will use this new room. The clerical force of the north office will pack up their ledgers, record-books and pens and move to the large south office. This change is not ex-actually as much things too much for the business personnel will at same time add a much needed classroom to Fraser Hall.
Cassie F. Jones of Wichita who has been taking graduate work in the College has accepted the position of assistant professor in the high school at Seneca Kansas.
Professor W. L. Burdick, of the School of Law, left yesterday for St Joseph, Missouri where he spoke before the Society of Sons of the American Revolution on "Professional Doves of Peace".
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