THE UNIVERSITY KANSAN.
VOLUME VII.
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, THURSDAY, JANUARY 26, 1911
A NEW JOURNALISM HAPGOOD DECLARES
NUMBER 46
WILL PURIFY NEWSPAPERS AND MAGAZINE, HE SAYS.
Famous Editor Made Three Ad dresses While in Lawrence Yesterday—In Topeka Today
That there is a new journalism—one which will purify the newspapers and magazines of this country—is the belief expressed by Norman Hapgood, editor of Collier's Weekly, in his address before the newspaper classes yesterday.
Mr. Hapgood made three talks while in Lawrence. The first was in the chapel before the entire student body. The second was given before the students in journalism, and the third at a luncheon at the Eldridge house in his honor It was in the second speech that Mr. Hapgood dwelt upon the new journalism.
"The time is at hand," he said "when editors will cease to sell their right to an unbiased opinion to corporate interests or to advertisers. Already 'big business' is beginning to realize this and in many instances are forced to buy controlling stock in publications in order to influence public opinion in certain localities.
"Newspapers are acquiring higher ethical standards than they once had. The best ones no longer expect their reporters to violate confidences or do anything for their papers which they would be ashamed to do privately."
The journalist declared that there were, however, insidious dangers which threatened the freedom of newspapers, and various ways in which influence is brought to bear upon them. To listen to the requests of a big advertiser in matters regarding policy is still a temptation constantly present.
"The controversy was not over Mr. Post's right to advertise bran as food," he said, "but the verdict showed that a New York jury believed that Collier's was right in claiming that Mr. Post had no right to advertise his product as a cure for ailments varying from appendicitis to loose teeth."
Mr. Hapgood referred to the $50,000 verdict which Collier's recently won from C.W.Post,the breakfast food manufacturer.
In his first address in chapel Mr Hapgood reviewed the present day problems of society which he said the students now in colleges would have to help to solve.
"In a civilization where production has increased many fold by modern methods, the great problem now is to distribute the product equitably to all. A beginning has been made in the solution of the question. Industrial organizations, swept along by the tide of American ethical progress, are now of their own accord assuming responsibility for the welfare of their workers, though but a few years ago liability laws were unheard of.
"The big questions of human right must be approached carefully and cautiously, but open mindedly. In the light of modern knowledge we must recognize that many institutions thoroughly established are wrong. On the
other hand nothing can be more injurious to the accomplishment of democracy than the widespread feeling that laws aimed at railroads and corporations are laws aimed at the enemies of the private citizen.
"Patient comparison of ideals and benefits by laborers and capitalists must be employed to solve the problem."
Mr. Hapgood is a strong supporter of the Theodore Roosevelt, whom he characterized as one of the far-seeing men of our age, the best representative of the modern view of the "square deal."
At the down town luncheon Mr. Hapgood related personal experiences and anecdotes for the benefit of the local newspaper people. He went to Topeka early last evening and remained there last night, the guest of Governor W. R. Stubbs. He was met there this morning by Regent William Allen White, with whom he will go to Emporia.
BACHELOR CAST CHOSEN.
Thespian Play Will Be Given February 22 and 23.
The tryout for places on "The Bachelor," which the Thespians will produce on the evenings of February 22 and 23, was held Tuesday evening in Fraser hall. Announcement was made today of the following cast of characters:
David Holmes, a literary critic —Claude Sowers.
Gerald Holmes, Holmes' brother—Solon Emery.
Martin, Holmes' private secretary—Alston McCarty.
Savage Sutton, an ambitious writer—Alan Park.
Mulberry, a poor writer—Walter Staton.
Harold Reynolds, a reporter Tom Johnson.
Servant—Tod Woodbury.
Servant—Tod Woodbury.
Silvia, Holmes' ward—Gretch
en Rankin.
Miss Clemintisa, an old maid—Agnes Conrad.
Harriet, a society woman—Lola Eaton.
Helen LeGrand, Holmes' sister
-Ethelyn Williford.
"The Bachelor" is a four-act light comedy drama and will be produced under the direction of Henry P. Lotz, stage director of the Auditorium theater in Kansas City.
NEED MORE DEBATERS.
A tryout will be held in the lecture room in Green hall to fill the two vacancies the team composing the Missouri debating squad. Two men will form the squad that will go to Columbia to meet the Missouri debaters, April 29. The question to be discussed is the "Minimum wage legislation in the field of sweated industries."
Two Men to Be Chosen for Missouri Squad.
The New Station Ready.
The new street car station in the hollow at the rear of Green hall has been completed. The depot was erected by the Kansas City Structural Steel company of Kansas City, Mo. Later in the spring a concrete platform will be laid.
CHANCE OF VICTORY SMALL---HAMILTON
VARSITY MAY NOT WIN FROM TIGERS, HE SAYS.
Johnson and Smith Are Both Out of Line-Up and Missouri Is Very Strong.
The prospects for victory for the Kansas team in the basketball games with Missouri Friday and Saturday nights in the gymnasium, are not promising, according to Coach W. O. Hamilton
He says, "the result of the games as far as we are concerned, all depends upon how the men feel on Friday and Saturday nights. The Missouri five will play the hardest games of the season and the varsity men will have to show a remarkable reversal of form from the game that they have been playing the last week. I am not at all satisfied with the way in which the boys have been playing this week. The College team has defeated them two nights by good scores. Jim Smith is seriously ill and will not be on the squad for the games. I have told the members of the College team to come out in suits for the game and in case of an emergency some of the best of that squad could be used. Some of the members of the varsity squad may be replaced by men on the College team who are showing especially good form.
"Missouri's line-up presents a very strong team, since they have four of their old men back on the squad and the new men are good players as I have reason to know from coaching them while at Central high school, Kansas City, and at William Jewell College."
ANOTHER FEVER CASE.
Miss Clara Clayton Has Contract ed the Disease.
One more new case of scarlet fever has broken out at the University. Miss Clara Clayton, a sophomore in the College, of Great Bend, is the latest to take the disease. Her case at present is very light. Her mother has arrived from Great Bend to take care of her.
Miss Clayton is supposed to have contracted the disease from a maid who recently came from one of the quarantined families. She is now confined at the home of Prof. L. E. Sayre, who has arranged to take his meals out while the house is under quarantine.
The other fever patients are all convalescent and it is only a matter of time until they will be able to resume their studies.
Representative McGregor of Summer county introduced a resolution into the house at Toppea this morning, providing for a School of Health at the University. By the terms of the bill all county health officers will be obliged to take a course in the school at the University each summer.
Would Have a Health School.
No Chapel Speech Tomorrow.
There will be no chapel speaker Friday morning as Norman Happgood's talk on Wednesday took the place of the Friday chapel speech.
BASE BALL SCHEDULE.
Fourteen Games Arranged for the Coming Season.
Manager W. C. Lansdon today announced a nearly complete schedule for the baseball season. The games arranged are:
April 13, St. Marys at St Marys.
April 14 and 15, K. S. A. C. at Manhattan.
April 21 and 21, K. S. A. C. at Lawrence.
April 28 and 29, Missouri at Lawrence.
May 1, Baker at Lawrence.
May 17 and 18, Missouri at Columbia.
May 19 and 20, St. Louis at St.
Louis.
May 22, Baker at Lawrence.
May 25, Stoddard at Lawrence.
May 21, 2015, at Hawkwell
Tarkio, William Jewell, Washburn and Ottawa are being considered for the other four games. On April 10 and 11 practice games probably will be played with the Haskell Indians.
THE SCORE BOOK IS OUT.
"Idle Idol" Songs Will Be Sold Tonight.
The score book for the "Idle Idol" will appear tonight. And it is safe to say that the book will be a credit not only to the producers and writers, but to the University as well. Within the cover, which is printed in red and silver on a green background, are forty-five pages. There are twenty songs, half written by George Bowles and half by Matt Graham, R. E. Gilman and H. Campion also contribute one of the numbers.
The majority of the songs are clever. The music is catchy and well written, and the entire book makes a neat appearance. The names of the Red Domino club members and those in the "Idle Idol!" cast appear on the first two pages. The book will be sold for $1.00.
BARFIELD MAY SPEAK HERE
President of Williams May Visit University.
WALSH SPEAKS TONIGHT.
Prof. R. R. Price, of the University extension department has learned that Harry Garfield, son of James A. Garfield, and President of Williams College, has dates to speak at Iowa State College and Colorado State College in the near future and he is trying to arrange to have him speak at the University of Kansas. Although nothing definite has been done as yet, Professor Price is making every effort to get a University date with the Eastern president.
Kansas City Attorney on "The Lawyer's Opportunity
Mr. Frank P. Walsh, a prominent Kansas City attorney, will give the third of a series of talks "with the bark on" at the regular Y. M. C. A. meeting tonight in Myers hall. He will speak on "The Lawyer's Opportunity." Mr. Walsh was attorney for the defense in the recent Hyde trial and was brought into prominence by the ability he displayed. He has been practicing law in Kansas City for the last twenty-one years.
A BIG RUSH FOR "THE IDLE IDOL"
BREAKS THE RECORD FOR ADVANCE SALES.
Indications Are House Will Be Filled for Both Performances Story of the Play.
All records of advance seat sales for University dramatic productions have been broken by "The Idle Idol." Nearly every seat in the house has been sold for the initial performance tonight, and the sale for tomorrow night's performance indicates that the attendance then will tax the capacity of the opera house.
The curtain will go up tonight on the first musical comedy ever written, staged, and acted by University of Kansas students. Interest in the production has been intense and this accounts for the new record of advance sales.
The producers of the play feel confident that the curiosity of the public will be fully satisfied by what they will see tonight, Song hits, local allusions, and the working out of the plot will, they think, be enough to make a lasting impression on the audience.
The Story.
The first act has a setting that will be familiar to all University students. Raymond Walters, is a student at the University who, because of his wealth and social position, has assumed a haughty attitude toward his fellow students. His times are spent in lolling over the campus with young women, and because of his actions he has been called "The Idle Idol." Raymond's father, who is a graduate of the University, comes back to his Alma Mater to visit, but before he meets him he talks with several students regarding his son and discovers the epithet that has been applied to his son Deciding that drastic measures are needed to restore Raymond to his proper appreciation of his opportunities, when he meets his son he informs him that he is to be cut off without a cent of support from home and that henceforth he must shift for himself.
The second act finds Raymond acting as fountain boy at one of the popular confectionaries of the city and in his position as "soda squirt" he retains his former haughty spirit and refuses any overtures from his parents. Dessa Margin, a student with whom Raymond has been particularly intimate before his fall from affluence, is the only one who protests her love for him at all times. Raymond's father finding that the change has worked a wonderful good on his prodigal son, finally influences him to return home and with this return of the prodigal comes Dessa as the wife of Raymond.
There are many other principal characters as well as a chorus off twenty. Several of the songs contain local hits among them being "Scandal," "Ach, My Lena," "Curiosity," and "Hyball."
The part of Raymond will be taken by Joe Marshall and Marguerite Stone will be the fair Dessa.