THE UNIVERSITY KANSAN.
NUMBER 67
VOLUME VII
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, THURSDAY, MARCH 16, 1911
STUDENTS LISTEN TO SUFFRAGETTE
LARGEST CHAPEL CROWD SINCE FOOTBALL SEASON.
Sylvia Pankhurst Tells Why Englishwomen Are Interested—About College Women.
Sylvia Pankhurst is a small unpretentious looking woman. She appeared on the platform this morning in a modest gray suit. Over her shoulders was a large black scarf pinned at the throat with a large green and purple pin with the motto "Votes for Women." Her hair parted in the middle and she wore a large soft, white straw hat, whose brim gave a sympathetic jerk every time the speaker brought out an emphatic point. In her left hand she held one of her yellow gloves. She wore the other. Her voice was typically feminine and she talked with impressive earnestness.
She said this morning:
"Many people wish to know why we women of England are so much in earnest in the suffrage movement. It is because we are fighting against the present unjust discrimination against women, against the unfair wage system under which women suffer but mostly because we believe that men and women should be on equal terms in the political as well as the social world. In 1865 women were not allowed in coeducational schools and those who suggested that women should have any political rights at all were called the 'shricking sister hood.'
"If you women of this country do not carry on the battle for owmen suffrage until you obtain complete political rights you are unworthy of such great Americans as Mrs. Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony and Lucy Stone who have gained for you such rights as you enjoy at present. The college women are better equipped to carry on the fight than the women of the industrial world. Many more opportunities are open to you than to them. I deprecate this criticism by the women of the upper classes concerning their more unfortunate sister. They say, 'If she had more money than she has now, she would spend it for nothing but clothes.' That is none of our business. It is easier for you to help them than for them to help themselves.
"I would ask you men of the University, 'in competing in classes with the girls do you always beat them?' If you do conditions here are decidedly different from those in our Eiglish colleges. When I went to college the men didn't beat me nor did they beat my sisters. If we have equal brains and are forced to bear the burdens of citizenship why should we not enjoy the privileges of citizenship?
"I come from the midst of a movement that is the greatest one of the present time. But in spite of the fact that English women are so intensely interested in woman suffrage they will not gain as many rights if they are successful as you will. There are property qualifications in England that will bar them from participation in politics. The proportion of votes will only be two million women to six million men, but even now we have made the men of England realize the importance of woman suffrage as they have never done in a thousand years."
"The college woman will be a determining factor in the success of the women's suffrage movement," said Miss Pankhurst in an interview this morning. "I find that in all of the large institutions of learning for women, the percentage of those accepting the idea increases the longer these women remain in college. As Wellesley, where I spoke recently, 85 per cent of the senior girls took up the couse."
"Besides having a number of prominent women in England enlisted in the work, the women who work in the mills and factories are an element that brings the movement to a common basis."
Miss Pankhurst is an enthusiast. Her work is her life and her every action breathes an interest for equal suffrage. "It is my belief that from America must come the leaven that will give unequality with man," she said. "The woman who votes will make he best mother and it is in the homes of both the rich and poor that the spirit for cleanness in political life and a patriotism must come."
Miss Pankhurst came to Lawrence directly from San Francisco, and will leave today for Sansas City.
WILL CHOOSE MAY QUEEN.
Senior Girls Also Arrange for a Social.
At the meeting of the senior girls Wednesday noon in the chapel, arrangements were made or a social in Robinson gymnasium. The date was not set, but a committee composed of Editi Willis, chairman, Lillian Miller and Lois Stevens, will arrange for the day.
There will be another meeting of the senior class girls tomorrow noat at 12:15 in Room 110. The May queen will be chosen at this time and the various committees will be appointed.
Tomorrow the speakers for the annual "Student Day" will be elected. In the Engineering School there have been several caucuses and the contest will probably be between Mike Lynch, George Russell, Henry Hoffman, and Mat Graham. In the College the only candidate to announce himself thus far is W. M. Land.. Evidently the speech in chapel this morning made an impression on the laws, for it is reported that at their meeting tomorrow they will probably elect as their representative Kathleen Calloway.
Will Elect Speakers.
George Russell announced today that the Annual board will give a Jayhawker to the person who hands in to the board the best story, piece of scandal or any article regarding the school life at the University. The stories must not be under one hundred and not over two hundred words in length. The board reserves the right to reject any or all of the articles submitted.
Will Give Prize.
APPROPRIATION CUT
$40,000 BY STUBBS
GOVERNOR CANCELLED ONE YEAR'S UPKEEP FUND.
As a Result, University Must Get Along on Less Support Than It Has at Present.
Governor W. R. Stubbs made an additional cut in the University budget for the next biennium when he vetoed an item of $40,000 in the appropriation bill yesterday. The bill included $40,000 each year for the upkeep of buildings and grounds, and special items of repairs, improvements and equipment. The governor cancelled one item of $40,000 which means that the appropriation for one year must suffice for the entire biennium.
The University is badly crippled by this additional cut. The original budget was shaved to the last cent by the legislature and the bill which left that body allowed for the smallest possible margin of increase during the next two years. The act of the governor means that in the next biennium the University will have to get along on less money than it has for its support during the present biennium.
The $40,000 cut was made by the governor on items which were placed before the legislature in greater detail than anything else, and the legislators, searching for places to apply the pruning knife, could do nothing but let the repair bill stand. The entire $40,000 was itemized to the last cent by Secretary Brown and most of the items are necessary to connect, neating, lighting and sewer arrangements with the new building to be opened next year.
Other items are much needed repairs. The roofs of the Medical building and the University residence are leaking badly. The foundation of Snow hall is settling, as is attested by the broken stone window casings, jambs, and water tables. The middle partition has sunk over three inches and the building is said by the state architect to be in bad shape
The work of making all electrical connections by means of underground conduits can not go on. Two men were killed while the Engineering building was under construction, because of overhead wiring, always a possible source of danger. Many repairs are necessary in the wiring in buildings. A number of small fires have already been caused in the library by short circuits.
The sewage from some of the buildings will continue to be discharged upon the campus for lack of money to extend the system as needed.
For lack of money the University will be unable to comply with the state law regarding fire escapes.
The postponement of all repairs that can be postponed will cause greater damage to be done and a considerable greater ultimate cost.
"Not all the $40,000 can be cut out of the upkeep and repair budget," said Secretary E. E. Brown this morning. "A large part of the items must be paid for
as scheduled if the University to run."
Money to take the place of the cancelled $40,000 must come out of the maintenance fund. New courses that had been planned must be abandoned,and incidentally the members of the faculty must go without the promised increase in salaries.
WESTERN TRIP PLANNED.
Zoology, Botany, Taught on Pacific Coast This Summer.
Prof. W. J. Baumgartner, of the department of zoology, is now planning his third trip to the Marine station, at Puget Sound. Already twelve persons have signified their intention to make the trip with him. The special car which will carry the party to the Sound will leave Kansas City about the 10th of June. A six days' visit at the Yellowstone National park will be made, and the car will arrive at Bellingham, Washington on about the 20th. From this point the party will go by boat to Friday harbor, one of the islands of Puget Sound, the place where the Marine station is located.
Courses will be offered at the station this year in economic and systematic zoology, botany and field work. Much time is spent in dredging for the abundant fauna and flora in the waters of the sound. Credit will be given at the University for the six weeks courses. After the close of the Marine station persons may return by way of any one of the various routes. One trip will take them up the Columbia river, through the Royal Gorge and for a small additional fare a visit to the cities of California can be made.
The necessary expenses of the entire trip will be between $155 and $165.
WILL GIVE EXHIBITION.
Tumbling Team to Entertain Kan
sas Teachers.
The first public exhibition that will be given by the tumbling team at the University will be held at the meeting of the Kansas State Teachers' Association which will meet here on March 25. The teachers will eat their dinner in the girls' side of the gymnasium and after the dinner the sliding doors of the gymnasium will be pushed aside and the boys will present some tumbling stunts. The girls will give three of the Gilbert dances. The members of the team that will give the pyramid work, the hand springs and somersaults are: Root, Babb, Shotts, Brownlee, Ghormley and Pauly.
Friday's Speaker Ill.
Hon. E. L. Copeland of Topeka, who was to have given the chapel address Friday morning, is unable to come because of the serious illness of his son. There will be no other speaker. Thursday's chapel will serve as the long chapel of the week.
Prof. Herman C. Allen of the department of chemistry, will deliver a lecture at Burton Friday, before the Anti-Horse Thief association. His subject will be "Liquid Air."
CHANCELLORSTRONG FOR STATESWOMEN
OUR LEGISLATURE WOULD IMPROVE IF WOMEN VOTED.
higher Education Would Not Be Sacrificed if Women Ruled, Thinks the Chancellor.
The foregoing statement was made by Chancellor Strong in chapel this morning immediately after the speech of Sylvia Pankhurst.
"I believe that if our state legislature were largely made up of women, that higher education would be the last thing to be sacrificed to political expediency, instead of the first."
The Chancellor further said concerning woman suffrage:
"I have three women at my house—my wife, my daughter, and my mother, and I fail to see why they should not have as good a right to vote as myself. When the amendment to the constitution comes up at the next election, I shall vote "yes," and I sincerely hope that the amendment will pass.
"As many of you know I have had a great deal of experience lately with state legislatures and I cannot say that I believe that the presence of women in that body would be detrimental to the laws of the state."
THE SACHEMS MET.
Faculty and Seniors Discussed School Matters.
The Sachems, an organization of the senior class which was organized for the purpose of discussing various pertinent questions of interest to the students, held a meeting last night at the Alpha Tau house. Nine members of the faculty were present at the meeting. The members of the society gave talks to the club after the light refreshments had been served. At this meeting of the club each regular member brought a friend. Members of the faculty that were present are: Professors Carl Becker, Coach W. O. Hamilton, A. J. Boynton, C. A. Dykstra, E. W. Murray, H. A. Rice, W. L. Burdick, George C. Shaad, and J. N. Van der Vries.
Entertain Home Teams.
Country clubs or individuals who are expecting to arrange for the entertainment of the high school basket-ball teams or any individual members of the teams, should report to Registrar Geo. O. Foster, who is in charge of this part of the work of the tournament.
Will Address Y. M. C. A.
Prof. R.A. Schweegler of the department of education will speak before the regular meeting of the Y. M. C. A. Thursday evening at 6:45 in Meyer's hall. His subject will be "Religious Experiences of Young Men."
Creola Ford, Josephine McCammon, Elizabeth Bethes, Ruth Miller, Lyla Edgerton, all seniors in the Fine Arts School, will go to Kansas City Friday to hear Joseph Hoffman, the noted Polish pianist play the piano at the Willis Wood theater.