UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOLUME XIII.
DRAMATICS ARE ACTIVE
Club Elects Crowell President and Plans for "The Witching Hour"
Officers were elected, plans for the year were made, and the date for the presentation of "The Witching Hour" was set at the first meeting this year of the University Dramatic Club, held last night in Green Hall Theater.
Author of Play Gets $50
January 19 was the date set for the presentation of "The Witching Hour." It will be given at the Bowersock Theater. Tryouts for places in the cast, and for membership in the club, are to be held in Green Hall Theater at 4:30 o'clock on Monday and Wednesday of next week, and at 7 o'clock on Tuesday. As soon as possible after the tryouts, the cast will be announced by Professor MacMurray. Rehearsals will then begin.
"Pat" Crowell, who played the lead in te club's production of "The Man From Home" last year, is the new president of the club. Cecil DeRoin was chosen vice-president; Itasca Hillman, secretary; and Elmer Clark, treasurer. All three have been prominent in dramatic activity in the past. Prof. Arthur MacMurray, of the department of public speaking, will coach all club plays, with the assistance of Prof. Howard T. Hill.
Regular meetings of the Club, in the form of a monthly "Stunt Night", are to be a feature of dramatic activity this year. President Crowell this morning appointed Alton Gumbiner and Haran Hutchings as a committee to arrange for the first meeting according to Crowell's plans, the meeting will be exclusive affairs, he'd in Green Hall Theater, and attended only by members of the Dramatic Club and perhaps one guest each.
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS, THURSDAY AFTERNOON, OCTOBER 21, 1915.
Tryouts Next Week
At the meeting last night, the members of the Club were urged to boost the play competition announced recently, and to persuade as many would-be dramatists as possible to submit plays in the competition. The author of the best play, selected by a faculty committee, will be awarded a prize of fifty dollars, and his play will be presented at commencement time by the senior class as its senior play. The rules of the contest will be announced next week by Professor MacMurray.
NUMBER 29
"In attempting to present 'The Witching Hour,' the Club has undertaken what is absolutely the biggest job ever tackled by a K. U. dramatic organization," said Pat Crowell this morning. "It's going to require a lot of good, stuff work if we're to get the job that battened on me, I look at the candidates for places in our life we have the material to get away with it. We've got lots of pep—and that counts for a whole lot of dramatics."
DIDN'T WANT SHEEPSKINS
Sixty-two Dust-Covered Diplomas Lie in the Office of the Registrar
Registran
"There are more of the A. M. degrees here than any other one" said an employee of the office today, "They, with the others, belong to persons who did not call for them at commencement, and who have left no address to which the diplomas could be sent. In looking over the bunch this morning we found that one of the present members of the College faculty was one of the negligent graduates.
sixty-two old, dust-covered diplomas, were found by clerks in the registrar's office today while they were digging around in some old files. They are a collection of the records that have never been called for by those who were used from one to four years of their life in earning them.
The chances are that the diplomas of the personae obscure who do not make themselves known will continue to lie in the files and gather dust until the owner calls, or his address is discovered.
The oldest one bears the date of 1894. The persons for whom they were intended have been awarded almost every degree from the ordinary college A. B. to the post-graduate A. M.
Send the Daily Kansan home.
CORDLEY SCHOOL FLOORS
TEST PERFECTLY SAFE
M. E. Rice, associate professor of Physics, found the floors of the Cordley school house at the corner of Nineteenth and Kentucky, perfectly safe in a test made the other day.
The school board requested this test because the forms slipped when the concrete was poured and allowed the floors to sag. In this test the floor stood up under a weight of 100 pounds to the square foot.
WILL RALLY AT DEP01
K. U. Rooters to Accompany Team to U.P. Station Saturday Morning
A spontaneous rally at the Union Pacific depot Saturday morning with every loyal Kansan to give the wave announced this morning, by Joe Gohda.
Gaitskill had planned a rally for tomorrow night, featuring a talk from Coach Beau O'cott in his first appearance before the student body, but gave up this idea when it was learned that the coach could not be present. "I see no real reason for having a rally tomorrow night," said Gaitskill this morning, "if we cannot get Olcott to talk to the fellows, as there is nothing esee that we could feature and it would merely be a display of re-hashed pep. A good lively send-off for the boys at the depot looks like the best kind of a rally we can have for this game."
Loyal 400 to Make Trip
The special leaves Lawrence at 9 a.m. Saturday morning and will take with it about four hundred Kansas rooters, headed by Gattskill and his two assistants, thirty-three Varsity football men, twenty members of the freshman squad and a forty piece band. The special leaves Manhattan on the return trip at 9 p. m. Saturday night.
Saturday is Homecoming Day at Manhattan and a letter to Gaitskill from the cheerleader there gives assurance that things will be lively for the K. U. visitors. All the old K. S. A. C. grades will be back for the game and help in making the reception a warm one. The Aggie cheerleader requested the Kansas roots to contribute whatever they cared to in the way of stunts toward making the day a gal event.
Manager W. O. Hamilton has four hundred and fifty tickets for the game on sale at his office in the gymnasium and although the sale up to date has been slow it is expected that all the reservations will be covered by the K. U. rooters before to morrow night.
BEWARE OF QUACK CURES
State Drug Authorities Find Old
Remedies Under New Names
—Worth Little
In a great many instances the products were old, well-known remedies — "good for what ails you"—but the prices were out of all proportion to the true value. The chemists in the laboratory are kept busy testing the samples sent in by the inspectors out over the state.
Patent medicine manufactures evidently continue to run their business on the assumption that there is "one born every minute," judging from the number of old remedies which are constantly turning up at the State Drug laboratory for examination. Many patients have beautiful new names, such as "Tarl-o-tone," "Lil-o-lax," and "Bloo-gen."
Another preparation for bleaching the hair which sold for a dollar, contained a dime's worth of German camomile, and a shampoo which sold for seventy-five cents contained about three cents worth of common borax. Epsom salts and borax to the value of a nickel were the chief ingredients of a face cream in a very pretty bottle costing fifty cents.
Such medicines as dandruff cures are numerous, but few are worth the price. A pound box of the cure costing one dollar, was found to contain only carbonate of soda which sells for ten cents a pound. A cough cure knows as "Syrup of Prunes" contained chiefly ammonium chloride. The latter is sometimes used for coughs, but it is very doubtful whether it does any good say the authorities.
When the Home Folks Visit Mt. Oread
E. W. Hullinger, a junior in the College, was in Kansas City Tuesday consulting Dr. Curran, the eye specialist.
The ubiquitous Ford attempted to attend a class in Green Hall. However it stopped on the first step.
Jess Fisher, of the School, of Law,
and J. V. Frederick, junior in the College,
spent Tuesday in Vinland writing insurance.
AGGIE GAME SEATS ON SALE U. S. SHOULD BE PREPARED
THEN THEY CAN VISIT THE MUSEUM
Thousand
Four Hundred and Fifty Tickets Have Been Reserved for Thundering Adequate Defenses for the Future Advocated by the Polity Thundered
A block of 450 of the best seats on the Aggie gridiron, have been laid aside Saturday for K. U., and are on sale at Manager Hamilton's office. The price is $1 with 25 cents, extra a seat on the field.
The seats are on the fifty yard lines, on the south side of the field, and if a sufficient number of the Thundering Thousand get seats in this section, as Conch Hamilton and Cheerleader Joe Gaitkis hope they will, the K. U. rooters will make a big hole in the Aggie yells.
At the meeting of the Architectural Engineering Society at eight o'clock Tuesday at the Sigma Alpha Epsilon house, G. F. Street read a paper on the "Origin and Development of the Arch." Besides there was a victoria concert, followed by "eats."
The band will be there. Manager Hamilton today expressed the hope that all the tickets sent here, would be used from present prospects they will be.
Students who expect to get tickets as Manhattan, may be disappointed, according to Manager Hamilton, as the Aggies look for a record breaking crowd.
Some one in the German department makes an attempt to console students who have to climb to the fifth floor of Fraser for their classes. Immediately after the announcement on the department bulletin board of the class at that elevation, a note is appended to the effect that a fine view of the surrounding country can be had from the window.
Dean L. E. Sayre of the School of Pharmacy talked on "The Standardization of Chemica's and Drugs" to an interested audience of about fifty members of the Chemical Club at its meeting yesterday afternoon in Room 201, Chemistry Building, Mr. Sayre told the club that the extensive practice of the adulteration of drugs and chemicals made some system of standardization vitally necessary.
Chemicals Hear Dean Sayre
Club
National defense was the topic discussed before the International Polity Club, which met at the Kappa Sigma house last evening.
During the formal discussion of the subject, the speakers favored the maintenance of adequate defenses for the United States. Prof. W. W. Davis brought out the point that what the United States wants is an army and navy, not for aggression. He compared the present army and navy to those of other nations, and showed that our national defense was not now as efficient as is desired. Harold Brannie and Guy Lamer also spoke.
"Our attitude toward the Monroe Doctrine and it's effect on our Armament Policy," was chosen as the theme of discussion at the club's next meeting.
Charke Bruington, Kenneth Lott,
Howard Adams, Roy Davidson and
W. E. Woolsey were elected new
members.
A wave of approval seems to have spread among the different educational institutions of the United States for the infirmary plan, judging from the reports and the appropriations toward this end.
Infirmary Plan Sanctioned
Connecticut Wesleyan College has just established a new infirmary for the use of its students. The building, which ca accommodate from six to comfortably, is located a block from the hospital. It has contagious ward, separated from the rest of the house. Four physicians will be in charge.
Morris Johnson, a freshman in the College, whose home is near Salina, is watching the price of wheat with a great deal of interest. Last spring Johnson's father made him a birthday gift; he took it to the farm land, and he thinks that he will make enough out of the summer's troop to keep him in school.
J. A. Winton, '02, who is first lieutenant at the army post in Seattle, Washington, visited the Sigma Chai house Monday. Out of a class of 150, Mr. Winton ranked highest and received an appointment as lieutenant.
John Connelly returned Tuesday from Toneka where he has been spending a few days with his parents. His father is congressman from the sixth district.
Phi Mu Alpha, honorary musical fraternity, will meet this evening at eight o'clock at the Kanza house.
SIGMA DELTA CHI GIVES
SMOKER FOR JOURNALIST
The students of the journalism department were entertained with a smoker at the Beta house by the K. Chu, the national journalist, Chi. the national journalism fighter.
P. G. Green, of the Sunday section of the Kansas City Star, Prof. Merle Thorpe and Prof. J. W. Evans of the journalism department made talks about seventy-five men were present
BOX CARS HARD TO GET Freight Trip Plan to Oklahoma Meets Difficulties—Olcott Likes Spirit
With no word received from either the Santa Fe or Rock Island officials in Topeka, the backers of the proposed box car trip to Oklahoma admitted today that it looked mighty bad for their proposition.
Would Olcott Go As Freight?
One of the chief objections to the trip, according to a local employee of the Santa Fe, is the fact that the trip would be an interstate one and the Interstate Commerce Commission requires a thirty day notice to be given on all new rates dealing with interstate traffic. That this matter could be avoided by routing the cars to the Oklahoma line and then on again from there, was admitted to be possible by the railroad officials, but the fact remains that the Santa Fe is by no means enthusiastic over the idea. Whether the Rock Island and Frisco can be persuaded to look more favorably at the idea remains to be seen. As one of the backers of the plan said this morning, these two roads both being almost bankrupt, might not sneeze at getting several hundred dollars worth of business even if it did cause them a little extra bother and trouble.
No one is more interested in the outcome of the proposed "Box Car to Oklahoma" than Coach "Beau" O'Connell although this distinguished gentleman does not intend to ride the side-door pullmil. He is delighted to see the interest among the students at such a high pitch that they will do such a thing to see their team. If he could leave his team he would actually, he says so anyway—desert the cushions for a box car bed.
"I am glad to see this spirit," said Olcott last night. I hope the whole University goes that way or some other way. I think it is certainly in keeping with the democratic spirit of the west and is a thing on which the examples are to be commended. The exact students were never think of such a thing but the democratic western students take it fast.
"It is a great thing and I wish every student in the University would take it up and promote the scheme. There's nothing like it."
MAY ESTABLISH NEXT FALL
Plans for Christian Bible College Sure to Go Through, Says Dr. Braden
"The Christian Bible College on the Hill will probably be established by next fall," said Dr. Arthur Braden yesterday. "Things have not pro-
vened so well." The date can be set for the beginning, but the plans are sure to go through.
George O. Foster is the secretary of the committee to further the plan and Chancellor Frank Strong is reported as being heartily in favor of the movement. The college is to be established in the ten rooms of the north end of Myers Hall, now occupied by the Christian Bible Chair.
"The movement is really a new one among the Christian churches," said Dr. Braden, "The Christian church is a new one, being only about a hundred years old, and as a consequence it does not have large schools like the other denominations. The cost of establishing an entire college today is very great and the regular college curriculum can be better taught in the university than in the small school."
Missouri university has a school of this kind at the present time and now gives nineteen hours of college credit for work done in the Bible College. Other universities that have such colleges are: The University of Chicago, Oregon State, California State, and Drake university.
ALL K. U. WILL DANCE Mrs.Eustace Brown Expects More Than 2000 at Hallowe'en Party
Every student and every faculty member in school is invited, and more than 2000 are expected to attend.
What promises to be the most successful Halloween party ever given at the University will be staged in Robinson Gymnasium on Saturday evening, October 30. Theoretically, the students are holding the party for the entertainment of the faculty; actually, committees of students under the general direction of Mrs. Eustace Brown, advisor of women, are giving the party for their fellow students, and inviting the faculty as guests of honor. No admission is to be charged for the event.
Program to be Varied
The party will be a costume affair, though costumes will not be required. It is thought, however, that the majority of those in attendance wear costumes for occasion. A program of stunts, a reception and a dance will provide amusement.
Promptly at 7:30 o'clock, on a specially constructed stage to be built on the second floor of the Gym, the curtain will rise on a series of tab'eaues depicting stories and traditions of Hallowen. An entire scene from James M. Barrie's "Peter Pan" will be presented; Missora Reynolds will sing a number of Scotch ballads; the famous witches' scene from "Macbeth" will be given; and a farcical burlesque on "Tam O'Shanter's Escape" will be staged. As a climax to the program there will be a "Witches Dance," followed by a surprise number by several Mount Orend witches—you know—those bewitchingwitches of the species "co-eds."
The reception will occur on the main playing floor of the Gym at 8:30 o'clock immediately after the opening ceremony. The overall severity will be in the receiving lipp.
Prizes For Best Costumes
Following the reception, sixty costumed performers will do the highland fling. Half a carload of kilies will be imported for this number. The dancers, who are now being trained in dance, include representatives from the social organizations on the Hill and an equal number of independents.
After the Scottish rites—(haw! a joke?)—those guests who have worn special costumes will be given the dancing floor for several dances. During this time a faculty committee of three will select the most original costumes and award prizes to their wearers. One prize each will be given to the best man's costume, the best woman's costume, the mostcoupleed couple. The prizes will be donated by the Merchants' Association.
Following the costume contest, a gypsy dance will be performed by thirty girls. After this number, the dancing floor will be given up to the guests themselves, and dancing will be in order until twelve o'clock.
For those who do not care to dance, entertainment will be provided on the second floor of the Gym. Three fortune tellers, said to be actual descendants of the ancient Egyptians, will hold forth in little tents, and deal out predictions to all who care to hear them. Those guests who舞 are expected to come and have their fortunes told between numbers.
Special decorations are being arranged for, and music will be rendered throughout the evening by a student orchestra to se'lected by Director J. C, McCaniles.
The Sigma Nus. plieded Allen Frater of Fredonia Monday night.
MORNING PRAYERS
Leader, Prof. R. A. Schwegler.
General subject, "Five Glimpses of Christ."
Friday, "The Man."
Week of October 25-29.
London, Prof. F. W. Ai.
Ladder, Prof. F, W. Ainlie.
Leader, Subject "God's Flaps and Mine."
Monday, "Where Shall I Find Him?"
Tuesday, "I will Send Thee,
Wednesday, "I Have Stimmed
Thursday, "Who Art Thou, Lord?"
Friday, "The Will Be Done."