UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOLUME IX.
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS, FRIDAY AFTERNOON, FEBRUARY 9, 1912.
LINCOLN EULOGIZED WITH SILVER TONGUE
NUMBER 16
Martyred President Theme of Capt. J. G. Waters of Topeka
SECTIONAL WOUNDS HEALED;
In Burst of Old-Time Oratory, Lincoln Given Credit of Unified
Nation.
"It is an honor that divides itself with pleasure to address any people on the subject of Abraham Lincoln," were the opening words of Captain J. G. Waters in chapel this morning, and not only to the captain was the address an honor and a pleasure, but it also was to the fifteen hundred students that crowded the ancient auditorium of Fraser to its fullest capacity.
CAST IN THESPIAN PLAY. "BILLY."
Captain Waters is a silver-tongued orator of the old school, of the race of speakers that flourished before the war, and his address this morning was not a disappointment to those who, despite their dislike of the "straight-from-the-shoulder" speakers, still have a warm place in their hearts for the "flowers of human speech."
Poverty of Lincoln
Captain Waters outlined the early history of the poverty and the struggles of Lincoln to get an education, then told in a heartfelt manner of the fight with Douglas in Illinois and of his final triumphs, and martyrdom. In Illinois he was shot by the war and South with the war forty years in the past, Captain Waters said.
"The war that devastated north and south alike has long been overtired wounds are largely healed or hidden in our sleeves. With the years have gone the brave and valorous brothers who endured, who fought, who tell: each conscious of his own integrity and believing in his cause. The opposing army is divided among those ing, loud mouthed muskets are rasted beyond salute, and the spider weaves his filmy web in their corrupted muzzles, all the long, long summers through.
"The great armies have disappeared, a few loters, struggling with age and infirmity, but the mighty hosts are history; the superb corps have vanished; the fighting regiments are gone. The noisy drums are hushed, and the turbulent bugles that stirred the camps, they are murmurless as graves in the depths of a glacier sea. The grass covers all hate and the skies bend above brothers who have forgotten all but the pride of manly fight."
Pror. Blackmar Tells of Success of Municipal Ownership in Kansas Towns
PRAISES SABETHA PLAN
Top Row: Virginia Elward, Russell Clark, George Station, Hazel Clark.
Middle row: Ike Lambert, Maurie e Fairweather, Claude Sowers, George Edwards, Clarence Sowers.
Bottom row: Ward Maris, Margaret Roberts, Lucy Culp, Robert Thomas.
The town of Sabethea, Kansas is receiving considerable attention from the economics department of the University. The municipal heating plant which pipes steam heat to every house in town, is the unique plan adopted by Sabethes which is drawing the attention of the state. White Lawrence, Leavenworth and Attichon were hovering over their lukewarm gas stoves during the late zero weather. Sabethea was very comfortable with its feet propped up in front of hot radiators, warmed from the central heating plant of the city.
The plant is owned and operated by the citizens, as are the town's telephones electric lights, and water works.
It is the opinion of Prof. F. W. Blackmar, head of the department of economics, that the Nemaha County town has the right idea and an almost ideal form of government.
"They do not practice socialism, as most people understand the term," Prof. Blackmar told one of his classes, "But the townpeople in Sabetha have the utmost individual liberty, and at the same time the community at large is considered. This, to my mind, is the ideal in city government. I do not know whether the Sabetha idea could be applied to a state or any other large unit, but it certainly seems to be a success in that town."
University Council to Meet. The regular meeting of the University Council will be held at 4:30 Tuesday, Feb. 13, in room 16, Fraser.
CLUB ROOMS FOR DEBATING SOCIETY
Pictures of the University Debaters Will Hang in Fraser Hall
The K. U. Debating Society met last night and forty-five members attended. The society has secured permanent quarters in room 501 Fraser Hall, where regular weekly meetings will be held to debate important questions of the day. Pictures of the University debaters past and present will be hung around the room.
The room will be fitted with furniture, tables, chairs etc., and made into a comfortable club room. At next meeting the question of municipal ownership will be discussed.
Chicago Sophs Wear Class Lids. The sophomores at the University of Chicago have voted to wear a special grey and yellow hat. They hope to make the custom a tradition of the class.
NORMAL STUDENTS WANT TO
SEE THE SPIANS IN "BILLY"
The Thespian Dramatic Club has received an offer from the management of the Emporia Dramatic Club to present "Billy" in that city after it is given in the Bowersock theater Monday. Price Holmes, who graduated from the University on 1907, watched the rehearsal of the play last night. Holmes is the manager of the Emporia club.
Price Holmes Enthusiastic Over Rehearsal Last Night—Offer to Present Comedy in Emporia.
"The rehearsal satisfies me that the presentation of 'Billy' by the Thespians will be one of the greatest successes in the history of student dramatics at the University of Kansas." Mr. Holmes said. "It is one of the most pleasing comedies I have ever seen, and the Thespian cast is unusually well suited for the different parts."
Mr. Holmes was especially enthusiastic over the Boatswain and the Sailor. These characters are taken by Ward Maris and Robert Thomas. There is about two feet difference in their heights, and the Boatswain is slim and the Sailor broad. Their appearance on the stage is sufficient for a burst of laughter.
The University of Oklahoma has received an appropriation from the legislature of $125,000 for a law building.
"POST NO BILLS" ON TO TEST DEFECTIVE CITY TELEPHONE POLES BRIDGE CONCRET
Attorney Mitchell FindsPol and Trees Laden With Ads-Last Warning
There is trouble in store for the offenders who persist in placing posters on telephone poles and trees in advertising coming events, according to City Attorney Mitchell. Several persons have complained of the posters. This morning he sent the marshal out to investigate.
It was found that almost every available post and pole was literally covered with posters of all sizes, colors, and description, advertising University affairs and functions foreign to the University. The authorities are hunting for persons. They are tracing them through the advertisements on the poster.
MUST USE GOOD GRAMMAR
OR LOVE ENGLISH CREDIT
The city attorney has said that one more warning will be given officially through the papers and later if offenders are caught arrests will be made.
Holiday Monday
Registrar George O. Foster has been compelled to inform students that their credit in Rhetoric has been cancelled, pending final action of the Department of English. This is in accordance with the following action taken by the college faculty last year:
Registrar Foster has Cancelled the Points of Several Students Who "Shaurter Our Language"
"When any instructor reports that a student is deficient in his use of the English language, the Registrar will notify the student of that fact and warn him that he is in danger of losing his credit in Freshman Rhetoric.
Monday Monday
It has been officially announced that in honor of the anniversary of Abraham Lincoln's birthday no classes will convene Monday.
"Whenever two or more of the student's instructors make adverse reports, the Registrar will notify the English Department of that fact, and shall cancel the student's credit for Rhetoric. The English Department may veto the action of the Registrar whenever it is apparent that such cancellation would be unjust. Unless the Department intervenes, the student will be required to re-enroll in the subject at his earliest opportunity."
Samples of Floating Variety Sent to Engineers' Testiing Lab. From Kansas City
Samples of the "floating concrete," obtained from one of the defective piers of the West Kansas avenue bridge, in Kansas City, Kansas, have been sent to the University to be tested. The concrete has been analyzed by the cement company that furnished the
ement for the bridge, but C. W. Trickett, attorney for the Wyandotte county commissioners, desired the concrete to be tested by disinterested board and accordingly ordered samples of the defective concrete sent to the University.
"The University will make complete qualitative tests of the concrete and report the results to Mr. Trickett." The faculty of the School of Engineering.
The concrete received here was taken from the bridge that was recently condemned in Kansas City, Kansas. During the recent extremely high flood, the second of the "concrete piers of the bridge" this rendered the bridge unsafe for further use, and a contract will soon be let for a new bridge.
Blackmar Discussed Primary Law Professor F. W. Blackmar addressed the meeting of the Graduate club at Westminster hall last night on the question of reform and in connection with this he discussed the Kansas primary law and other proposed laws to remedy present conditions. After the talk the club held a short business meeting and discussed having their picture taken for the Jayhawker.
Black Helmets Hold Smoke
Black Helmets Hold Smoke
The Black Helmets entertained the Friars with a smoker at the Sig Alph house last night. An informal feed was given after which short talks were made by Professor W. E. Higgins, H. A. Rice and George Putnam. About twenty-five men entertained and the evening was finished with songs and selections on the banjo, mandolin and guitar by the members of the Black Helmets.
Palette Club Initiates.
The Palette club initiated last night Nile Tripp, May McPearland, Ruth Walker, Constance Fennell, Edith Coopert, Letha Churchill, Lida LeSuer, Lucille Krieder, Wilma Arnett and Aarta Briggs.
The Fine Arts exhibit will be open all day Monday, February 12.
The Weather.
Mr. Thermometer and Mr. Barometer were unsettled in their opinion as to what the weather would be, so the only report they can give out is: Unsettled weather tonight and Saturday.
PROFESSOR WILSON TAKES Dr. BAILEY'S POSITION
During the absence of Professor Bailey in Europe, his work will be directed by Professor Stanley Davis Wilson. Professor Wilson was head of the Chemistry department of Washburn College at Topeca, for a year and a half. Beside receiving his A.M. and A.B. degrees at the Western University of Connecticut, he studied extensively at Cornell and the University of Chicago.
ACROPOLIS OF KANSAS MT. OREAD'S LATEST
Prof.Leotsakos,Native Greek Compares Ancient and Modern Culture
"Mount Oread is the Acropolis of Kansas," said Prof. J. P. Leatosak of the University of Athens, in his lecture on "Classic Greece," In Snow hall yesterday, "and even as the influence of the culture and learning that make its home on the Acropolis, spread all over Greece and the civilized world, so will the influence and uplifting power of the University of Kansas spread itself throughout the state, and the whole of your great western country."
Professor Leotakos is a "teleop-hitos" or graduate of the University of Athens. His lecture was illustrated by over fifty stereotypic views of the cities, ruins, costumes, and statuaries of his native land in her ancient glory.
Professor Leotaksis speaks English fluently, with just enough accent to give his language a peculiar charm. In speaking of the sports and games of the ancient Greeks he said that the first mention of ballplaying in European Literature was when Ulysses watched Nausicaa and her maidens as they played.
"The Greeks," said Professor Leosakas, "played ball for pastime, as their lives depended on it, as you play it in America."
"The Grecian ladies were not hatted and costumed and coiffured and shoed by despotic Parisians," he continued, "nor did they indulge in poisons. Wheesley and tobacco! They would kill an elephant!"
"Nor did the classic beauties bind themselves with that engine of cords and steel that you call a corse," resumed the lecturer. "Their dress, as is well known, was sufficient yet modest display of the natural beauties and graces of the body."
Professor Leotakos lectures on Modern Greece in Snow hall this afternoon at 4:30.
PROF. HUNTER RETURNS
FROM INSPECTION TOUR
Visits University Entomological Field Survey at Wichita and Parsons - Says Peach Crop is Safe
Professor S. J. Hunter returned Saturday from Wichita, where he had been on a tour of inspection of the State Orchard and Forest Survey Stations in southern Kansas, located under W. E. Emery at Wichita, and at at Parsons under A. J. Spangler. New stations will be established at Dodge City and Larned. Professor Hunter is the director of the Southern Kansas Horticultural University ta on the work of the university field survey and the recent decision of the state supreme court in regard to the state horticultural laws.
"The orchard men at the Wichita meeting were very enthusiastic about the work of the University survey," said Professor Hunter this morning, "and were anxious to hear concerning the extensions that the department will soon establish. They also inform me" continued Professor Hunter with an anticipatory smile, "that the peach crop in southern Kansas was in no way injured by the winter's extraordinary cold."
LOSES 4 MOLARS, BUT WINS GIRL ANYWAY
Professor Hunter stated that while he was in Wichita he met several old K. U. people, all of whom were loud in their praise of the new Daily Kansas.
"Billy," Hero of Thespian Comedy. Is a Former Football Star
SCENE IS ON BOARD A SHIP
Thespian Cast Which Gives First University Drama Has Done Professional Work.
"Billy," a three act comedy depicts the trials of a totaffless football ball hero with his best girl on board an ocean liner in New York to Havana, will be presented by the Thespian Dramatic Club next Monday afternoon and evening at the Bowersock theater. The play is the only strictly student enterprise that has ever been given on the hill.
Clarence Sowers, a student in the School of Law, is directing the comedy and at the same time is handling one of the leading roles. The elever other students in the cast have had former experience before the footlights.
Hero is a Football Star.
The play is a three act farce comedy and takes place aboard ship en route to Havana. Billy Hargrave, the hero, is a former student in the Transylvania College and is taking the trip with his sister Alice for his health. In a recent football game, in which Billy was the star, four of his front teeth had been knocked out and false ones had been inserted in their stead.
Miss Beatrice Sloan, Billy's sweetheart, and her mother are also on board the SS Florida together with Sam Eustace, a young business man. Billy and Sam are rivals for the hand of Beatrice. Billy is extremely sensitive about his false teeth and does not wish to tell Beatrice of them, fearing it will make a difference in her feeling towards him. However, he talks it over with his sister and at her earnest solicitation decides to "fess up."
Loses Teeth—Chances Spoiled
Loses Teeth—Chances Spoiled
In the meantime Sam Eustace to Mrs. Sloan a story of past life, that Mrs. Sloan an attitude toward Billy changes, and tells her daughter not to "have anything more to do with Dillie Hargrave." Billy wants to be fair to Billy however, and, after he proposes, gives him a chance to make a confession about "four of them" which she understands to be girls, but, in reality, are teeth. Just then, the steward of the ship rushes in, runs into Billy and knocks their teeth out. Billy cannot talk without his teeth so his explanation stops at this point. Beatric thinks it is a confession of guilt, and refuses to have anything more to do with him.
Sister Helps Find Teeth
The remainder of the play hinges on the plot of Billy to obtain other teeth through the aid of his sister and the wooping of Beatrice by Sam Eustace.
Billy, only being able to lisp, refuses to talk in the presence of Beatrice. In the meantime, two Irish sailors have found Billy's teeth in a coil of rope and are keeping them for a reward. Billy's efforts to find other teeth are fruitless, but in the last act while hunting on deck for his own teeth he finds Mrs. Sloan's false teeth in a glass of water. He takes these but cannot use them. Mrs. Sloan is all most prostrated at her loss and gets Beatrice to enlist the services of Sam and the captain in finding them. The play closes with the auction of Billy's teeth for the benefit of the Sailor's Home. Sam believing they are Mrs. Sloan's raises Billy's bid up to a thousand dollars when Billy obtains them. Alice then returns Mrs. Sloan's teeth and Billy receives his own. Beatrice believing that Billy has bought her mother's teeth apologizes to Billy, accepts his proposal and—Sam Eustace remains a bachelor.
Professor Dunlap to Lecture.
Prof. C. G. Dunlap, of the English department, will lecture on "Charles Dickens" at Oathe on Feb. 9, and on "Robert Louis Stevenson" at Great Bend on Feb. 12.