THE UNIVERSITY KANSAN.
NUMBER 83
VOLUME VII
GIRLS WILL ELECT COUNCIL ON MAY 5
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, TUESDAY, APRIL 25, 1911
PETITIONS MUST BE IN BY MAY 2.
Will Have 2 Vice Presidents-
Grace Wilkie, Isabel Thomes,
Agnes Grego, Committee
The annual election of officers the Women's Student Government Association will be held in the Rest Room of Fraser hall, Friday, May 5 from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. All petitions for candidates for office must be in the hands of the committee on elections not later than five o'clock p.m. of Tuesday, May 2. The committee on elections is Grace Wilkie, Isabel Thomes, and Agnes Crego.
Article 6, Section 2: The president and vice-presidents shall at the time of their election, have credit for at least five semesters' work done in this University the secretary and treasurer for at least three semesters' work.
The officers to be elected are: President, two vice-presidents (one from the College, and one from the School of Fine Arts), secretary, and treasurer. The following sections are taken from the constitution:
Article 6, Section 3: All members of the executive council shall meet the requirements of scholarship fixed by the "Committee on Student Organizations other than Athletic."
Article 10, Section 2: Any woman student in the University may become a candidate for office in the Association who meets the requirements of Article 6 Section 2, and on petition of fifty (50) members of the association not more than half of whom shall be from any one class.
The following petitions are being circulated :
President—Beulah Murphy.
Vice-president from the College
—Glendale Griffiths.
Secretary—Ruth Van Doren.
Treasurer—Frederika Hodder.
The committee urges that the petitions be turned in as soon as possible.
Glee Club at Fraternal Aid
The University Glee Club has been invited to sing before an audience in Fraternal Aid hall on Thursday evening of this week. The concert is complementary and admission can be secured only by ticket.
Chancellor in Topeka
The election of the manager for the club for next year will take place after the concert.
Chancellor Strong is in Topeka today attending the meeting of the presidents of the accredited colleges of Kansas. Last night he was present at a meeting of the State Board of Education.
Tomorrow the Board of Regents of the University will will meet here to go over the budget appropriated at the last meeting of the legislature.
MEET MISSOURI NEXT
Debaters Will Argue Minimum Wage With Tigers.
The next debate of the year, that with the University of Missouri at Columbia, will be held Saturday, April 29. The men who will represent Kansas are Eliot Porter and Clarence Connor. As both of these men are experienced in debate the team this year should have a good chance of defeating Missouri. It has been seven years since Kansas last humbled the Tigers in a debate, and this fact has caused the Kansas men to put forth greater efforts than otherwise.
BE THERE AT SIX
The question which will be discussed is that a minimum wage should be applied in the fields of the sweated industries. One of the greatest evils which exist in the large cities today is the work done by the poor people in the sweat shops. Here an immense part of the hand made goods on the market are made. The people who do the work are too ignorant for other labor and outbid the factories at a wage which is not sufficient to support them. It is the purpose of the minimum wage to set a limit to the bids or wages of these people. Kansas will argue that the minimum wage should not be applied in the fields of the sweated industries. The minimum wage question is one of the biggest and also the fairest question that has been debated by the University in years.
No More Dates Taken After Tomorrow.
Final arrangements are being completed for the presentation of the Junior Prom of the class of 1912 and all the prospects at present point to a larger attendance than has ever been held before. The Prom starts promptly at six o'clock and the curtain will rise on the Faree at 6:15. The last chord will be struck and the electrician will put out the lights at three o'clock the next morning.
Already the stage that was set up on the second floor has been removed to the first floor of the gymnasium and is being erected and decorated for the presentation of the farce.
The managers of the Prom will be at the checkstand tomorrow to exchange tickets for the receipts given out by the members of the committee and positively no dates will be received after six o'clock tomorrow evening.
After the farce is over the people will go to the second floor of the gymnasium where they will go down the receiving line and the Grand March will then take place. At 8:15 o'clock the director of the orchestra will give the final word for the first dance of the evening. The program consists of twenty-four dances, which includes several feature dances.
Y. W. C. A. Notice.
Mrs. W. C. Payne will not speak to the girls of the Y. W. C. A. tomorrow afternoon as announced.
LIBERTY, EQUALITY AND FRATERNITY
THESE SHOULD BE OBSERVED IN ESSENTIAL THINGS.
"Ignorant Foreigner" is Not Root of All Evil—True Social Equality.
The second of the Charles Zueblin lectures was delivered this afternoon. His subject was "The Training of the Citizen." He said in part:
"The characteristics of a democracy have given us liberty, equality, and fraternity. These do not exist any more in this country. There is much said about the liberty, of the press, of church, of corporations, etc. Yet it is almost a sacrilege to use the word liberty. Is the average working man allowed to be a man? Does the average worker put his best into his work? And if not, why not? Because he cannot do so this world of subdivided labor.
"The definition Lincoln gave of a democracy 'a government of the people, by the people and for the people,' is all right for political democracy, but not for practical democracy. It would be better described as a government of the people, by the bosses, for the corporations, in some of our large cities.
"So we should be honest and prepare our children by education, which will develop their personalities, teach them that power of expression by the intelligent use of eyes and hands, which will develop adaptibility. The capacity of adjusting oneself to circumstances is one of the prerequisites of good citizenship. 'The chief reason for bad municipal government in the United States is that the average man does not control his destiny in his work. Work today does not encourage that. In this world of subdivided labor, just a little fragment of a man is called into use and then suddenly on the one day of the three hundred and sixty-five, the one great day of our nation, we expect him to come forth and be a full man."
"Equality does not exist as expressed in our every day life. We profess to believe in social equality, but the most insignificant white man does not think the greatest and best negro is his equal. We bluff ourselves into the belief that the 'ignorant foreigner' is the root of all our trouble. Why, then, Milwaukee, which is mostly made up of foreigners, a better governed city than Philadelphia? Why are the so-called grand, old American states, Rhode Island and Connecticut, rivalled only by Pennsylvania in corruption? Ten good good men in any community could control an election if you could only get them out. People of means are no more worthy of confidence than the others are. We are all guilty of class consci-
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TWO STUDENTS HELD UP
Mysterious Assailant Flourished Gun on Porch of House
The latest of a series of troublesome attacks and holdups of which students of the University have been the victims occurred Saturday night, when Miss Florence Bottiger a special in the School of Fine Arts, and Will Moore, a junior in the College, were held up by a masked man on the porch of the former's rooming place at 1016 Ohio street.
No attempt at robbery was made, and the motive of the attack is unknown. Residents along that portion of Ohio street have been troubled from time to time with prowlers, and this latest incident has caused considerable worry and excitement.
They had returned home from a party at a late hour, and as Moore was taking his leave a masked man vaulted over the railing of the porch, thrust a revolver into his face and commanded him to go. Before he could either comply with the command, or attack his assailant, the young woman's screams brought two inmates of the home to the porch. Seeing himself unable to cope with so large a number, the intruder covered them all with his weapon, telling them not to move and backed away around the north side of the house.
RECITAL TONIGHT.
Lucile Barrett And Cornelia Hardcastle Will Appear.
The first of the series of six Graduating Expression recitals to be given by the School of Fine Arts will be held tonight at 8:00 in the chapel in Fraser hall. The recital will be given by Miss Lucile Barrett and Miss Cornelia Hardcastle assisted by Mrs. Blanche Lyons, Soprano and Miss Louise Wiedemann, pianist. The program which will be rendered this evening is as follows: Reading from Pickwick
Papers ...Dicken
apers ... Dicken
Mr. Pickwick's Dilemma
Miss Barrett.
Sandalphon . . . . . . Longfellow
Nine Wheels
Musical Relief by Harvey Loomis
Miss Windmann
Waltz Song, "Para"...Arditi Mrs. Lvons.
The Ballard of the East and West ... Kipling
...Susan Claspell
Miss Hardcastle.
Song, "Were I a Moth". Phillips Mrs. Lyons
The Turning of the Road...
Reading, "The Funeral that Flashed in the Pan". Geo. Fitch Miss Hardcastle.
The Fool's Prayer...Sill Itchin' Heels...Dunbar Miss Barr
Miss Hardcastle. Reading—
Senior Girls' Party.
The senior girls party of May first will be of the nature of a kid's party. Girls please come in costume prepared to have a good time.
TICKETS WERE SCRATCHED HARD
PRICE IS ELECTED VICE PRESIDENT
The Board is French, Ammons,
Davidson, and Woodbury—
1250 Votes Cast.
Vice-President.
After one of the most exciting elections ever held on the hill, this afternoon, in which 1250 votes were polled the following men were declared elected :
Members of Board.
Hicks . . . . . . 552
Bond . . . . . . 509
French . . . . . . 699
Ammons . . . . . . 760
Roberts . . . . . . 640
Rhodes . . . . . . 495
Woodbury . . . . . . 713
Davidson . . . . . . 655
Wilson ...531
Price ...714
The vote cast last year was 912. Many of the girls were brought to the polls in automobiles and the electioneering was carried on as far as the dead line until the polls closed at 4 o'clock.
H. A. Rice who was without opposition for the position of president will head the board next year. Both of the tickets were scratched each securing two board members.
ALUMNI SPEAKER CHOSEN
Solon T. Gilmore Will Speak Tuesday of Commencement Week
Solon T. Gilmore, who was graduated from the College in 1886 and from the School of Law in 1888, will deliver the alumni address at the University this year. The address will be given on Tuesday of Commencement week.
Mr. Gilmore lives in Kansas City where he is a well know lawyer. He is a state senator for Missouri and a member of the board of police commissioners of Kansas City.
The Griffin Scholarship.
The Charles S. Griffin Memorial Scholarship for 1911-12 will be awarded before Commencement. Men students of the present freshman class of the College are eligible. This is a cash scholarship of $50. Applications should be made to any member of the committee in charge, Professors S. J. Hunter, M. W. Sterling and B. J. Dalton.
Dr. R. E. Scammon has accepted a place in the Summer Session of the University of Missouri. He will conduct the work in Embryology.
A meeting of sophomore track athletes will be called on McCook field Wednesday afternoon at 3:00 p.m. to elect a captain.
Larry Doyle and Claude Nigh went to Topeka today to see the opening game of the Western league.
Last Senior Party
F. A. A. HALL
Monday, May 1
Music by J. D. Haley, of Kansas City OPEN TO ALL CLASSES