UNIVERSITY AIDS IN LABOR PROBLEMS
PROF. F. W. BLACKMAR'S PLAN WAS ADOPTED.
Numerous Disputes Settled by Arbitration Method in Kansas, Oklahoma, and Missouri.
After some months of arbitration under the agreement brought about by the University between the miners and the mine owners of the coal district in the state, the method of arbitration has proved to be successful. The arbitration was almost wholly brought about by the University extension department and Prof. F. W. Blackmar, dean of the Graduate School.
During the time of the strike lasting throughout the first part of last year the University of Kansas, under arrangements made by the department of University Extension, addressed the Central Labor Organization of Topeka. The department presented strongly the advantages of the arbitration method in settling disputes between employers and employees and denounced strikes and backouts as not only expensive and brutal but unworthy of an enlightened age.
Prof. F. W. Blackmar one of the university professors was sent to Topeka by the department of University Extension. His talk proved such a success that the extension department later minedographed it. It was then sent by the department to the labor organizations and to prominent employers of labor throughout Kansas, Oklahoma, and Missouri. Many letters of commendation were received after the lecture had been read and discussed in the labor organizations. Employers of labor were most unanimous in their approval.
This work done by the University hastened the close of the strike and induced the contending parties to make a binding agreement that all disputes in the future should be settled by a board of arbitration.
So great is the confidence in the arbitration method as provided in the existing contract that the arbitrator has already been called on to settle numerous differences between the miners and employees after all other methods had been tried and failed. W. L. A. Johnson, the Kansas Labor commissioner, has been selected as the final arbitrator at a salary of three thousand dollars a year to begin on July 1 of this year, when his term as labor commissioner expires. Mr. Johnson has already been able to avert several strikes that would have taken place had it not been for the arbitration.
The university may congratulate itself on having a part in promoting what promises to be a permanent method of settling strikes between the coal miners and employers.
K. U. Professors to Topeka
There will be a meeting of the Kansas City section of the American Chemical society on Saturday afternoon at Topeka under the direction of Washburn College Papers will be read by Doctor S J. Crumbine of the University hospital at Rosedale, Professor F B. Dains of Washburn College and Prof. C. C. Young of the University. The chemists of Lawrence, Kansas City, and Manhattan will attend the meeting.
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WHY BLEACH FLOUR?
Government Says White Kind is Injurious.
Prof. H. W. Emerson of the School of Pharmacy spoke before the Chemical club last Wednesday afternoon in the Chemistry building. His subject was "Bleached Flour." Prof. Emerson reviewed the case of bleached flour tried in Kansas City last summer at which he and Prof. L. E. Sayre, dean of the School of Pharmacy, were witnesses for the millers, who claimed that bleached flour was not harmful. "The millers also had," according to the speaker, "professors from the Universities of Chicago, Nebraska, Missouri, and the Kansas Agricultural College.
"The government had their own chemists and others from Harvard and the Universities of Pennsylvania and New York. The case was tried before the federal court and was decided in favor of the government.
"The only advantage of bleaching," concluded Prof. Emerson, "is to make the flour whiter and this is the kind that the people seem to want." The government, however, claimed that bleached flour was injurious to the blood, especially the nitrites resulting from the bleaching and with this won the case.
CHICAGO PROFESSOR HERE
University Will Ask Teachers to Attend.
Dr. Alexander Smith, who is professor of Chemistry in the University of Chicago, will speak before the University Chemical Society on May 22. Doctor Smith will talk on the subject "The Methods of Teaching Chemistry." Endeavors will be made by the department of Chemistry of the University to have the teachers of the high schools of the state in attendance at the lecture.
Doctor Smith is the author of several books on Chemistry and he has a national reputation among the scientists who have made Chemistry their life work He recently accepted the position of head of the department of Chemistry at Columbia University in New York City.
Fresh strawberries at the College Inn.
Kentucky University stopped giving its monthly cadet hops because they attracted too many outsiders. Thus instead of furnishing social life for the students they became a meeting place for the undesirables of the town.
OREAD NEWS.
Prof. W. E. Higgins went to Perry, Kansas on April 17 to officiate as judge in an oratorical contest held at that place.
There will be no meeting of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers Wednesday evening as announced in the University Calendar.
A rehearsal for the Junior
Faree will be held tonight at 7
o'clock at North College. All
members of the cast kindly take
notice.
Larry Doyle, who is playing with the Kansas City league, pitched for the Athletics of that league Sunday. The Athletics lost by the score of 3 to 2. Doyle struck out 11 men.
Professor Haworth has gone to Washington, D. C., to attend the annual meeting of the State Geologists which is called by the Director of the State Geologist Survey. He expects to be back by the end of the week.
C. L. Davidson, mayor of Wichita under the commission form of government, will be the speaker in chapel Friday morning. His subject will probably be some phase of the commission government.
L. D. Havenhill of the department of Chemistry will speak before the Pharmaceutical Society Friday morning at 11:15 o'clock in the Pharmacy lecture room. His subject will be "Cork, and Its Uses."
C. A. Nash of the department of Chemistry will speak before the Chemical club Wednesday afternoon at 5 o'clock in the Chemistry building. His subject will be "The Development of Electrochemistry."
The next track meet that athletes from K. U. will compete in will be an outdoor one,—a Relay Carnival at Des Moines in which Kansas will enter four events; Four mile, two mile, one mile, and half mile relays. Those who will make the trip to Des Moines will be chosen after the try-outs tomorrow and Thursday afternoons. Those wishing to try out must be on their marks at 4 o'clock sharp
TASK IS SET FOR NEW COMMISSION
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STATE INSTITUTIONS TO BE INVESTIGATED.
Moral and Spiritual Welfare of Students Will be Asked After—Fee Question Considered
Governor Stubbs has called a meeting of the state commission of higher education to be held in his office May 4. All the Regents of the University, the Agricultural College and the Normal are members of the commission. According to a letter which the governor sent out the first of the week calling the meeting, the following matters will be considered:
The methods used by each institution in looking after the moral and spiritual welfare of students. The extent to which the institutions keep in touch with students outside of the class room.
The incidental expenses and fees charged students for all purposes in all departments.
The number of professors and teachers in each department of the three state educational institutions, together with the total expenditures and receipts for each department during the month of April and as many months prior to April as possible. Also the number and grade of students taught daily by each professor or instructor; the average number of students attending each class and a statement showing other duties performed by each professor or instructor.
At the meeting May 4 the committees which have been at work since the first meeting of the commission a few weeks ago will report upon the efficiency, business management and co-ordination in the three institutions.
Governor Stubbs also is said to be interested in the matter of student fees. A law was passed at the last session of the Legislature turning all but laboratory fees into the general treasury. They previously had been turned back to the institutions which had collected them. Under the present law they presumably can be used to pay for repairing the penitentiary or gilding the state house dome, or for any other purpose that is not educational. Governor Stubbs says he is opposed to having the students in the professional schools pay more into this fund than the students who take the non-vocational courses.
CHASED BY WOMAN
After an Accident Students Are Banished From Garden.
Frank Ford and Harold Smith who is a junior in the college were riding down Oread Avenue on Smith's motorcycle at a fast clip Monday when Smith told Ford to put his foot on the brake and slow down so that they could make the turn.
Ford hunted for the brake all right and his intentions were good, but he failed to locate the brake and the result was that the two boys and their motorcycle went over the curbing, struck a fence, and then pitched the boys over the fence into a garden from which they were chased by an angry lady with a broom.
Southwestern won from the College of Emporia in a debate held in Winfield last Saturday evening.
The St. Louis University ball team defeated the University of Missouri team at St. Louis last Saturday by a score of 4 to 3.
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