March 31, 1943. ur. O. ©, Tharp, Principal, Edgerton Rural High Sehool, Edgerton, Kansas. Dear Nr. Tharp: I appreciate very much the compliment you pay me in asking that I eee Wednesday evening, May 19th. I heave been serving as vice president of the Lawrence Rotary for the past year. It may not be presumptu- ous to assume that I may succeed to the presidency, unless the directors see otherwise. Rotary International meets at St. Louis, Missouri, from May 17 to 20, inclusive. There- fore, I am very sure that it will be impossible for me to serve you in the manner that you ask. However, I do want to thank you sincerely for the compliment. Please convey my best wishes and kindest regards to your senior class and your faculty in asking me. Sincerely yours, : \ Director of Physical Education, PCA:AH | Varsity Basketball Coach. BOARD OF*EDUC ATION Ok OSHEL, DIRECTOR J, C. FAIRCHILD, CLERK W. W, CORDELL, TREASURER FACULTY Ldgerton Rural high School O. C, THARP, COMMERCIAL SUBJECTS H. S, BREITHAUPT, HisTORY, IND, ARTS AND ATHLETICS MRS, MADGE R, HOLDEN, HOME Ec., MATH, AND SCIENCE HKdgerton, Kansas HELEN G, THARP, ENGLISH, SPEECH AND MUSIC March 30, 1943. D. R. OTT, BAND O. C. THARP, PRINCIPAL f Mr. Forrest C. Allen University of Kansas. Lawrence, Kansas. Dear Mr. Allen: Would you be available for a commencement address Wednesday evening May 19th at 8 P. M? A few years ago I wrote you about speaking for us, but you had to be in Lincoln Nebr. at the time and were unable to come. In case you have the date open could be with us, what remuneration would you expect. Very truly yours, O. CG. Thar; Principal Maroh 26, 1943. Rev. R. K. Sutton, Pirst Methodist Church, Dear Reverand Sutton: I will be very happy to speak to your group in Ottawa on Monday evening, April 19th, at 6:50 peme Gordielly yours, FCA: AH Varsity Basketball Coach. “VYarch 24, 1943. Mr. C. W. Rice, Superintendent, Lemont Public Schools, Lemont, Kansas. Dear Superintendent Rice: I appreciate very much the compliment you pay me in asking that I serve as your commencement speaker on Wednesday, May 19th. I have been serving es vice president of Lewrence Rotary for the past year. It may not be preswaptuous to assume that I may succeed to the presidency, unless the directors see otherwise. Rotary International meets at St. Louis, Missouri, from May 17 to 2D, inclusive. Therefore, I am very sure that it will be impossible for me to serve you in the manner that you ask. However, I do want to thank you sincerely fer the compliment. _ Ce ee ee ee ee class and your faculty in asking me. Sincerely : yours, . Director of Physical Education, PCA sAH Varsity Basketball Coach. March 10, 1943 | ‘Forrest C. Allen : | - | Director of Athletics | 7 University of Kansas 3 : ss Lawrence, Kansas | | Se Wonld it be possible for you to give our | | ss Commencement address Wednesday, May 19, 1943? e | Some of the seniors have indicated that they | would like to.have you as their speaker. : Congratulations on winning the Big-Six ie : a championship. | : ae Se oe May a hear from you in regardyx to the commencement . Sincerely, Ray Grecory, Director oo ake Ss ve AP fi WO f a i % 5 Naat C. R. Bgces, Clerk C. GOogLITZER, Treasurer WASHINGTON RURAL HIGH SCHOOL Craupe A. Huyck, Principal Bethel, Kansas February 25, 1943 Dr. F. ©. Alles University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas Dear Dr. Allen: Your address was so well accepted last year that our students are anxious for a return engagement for our Letter- men awards. Would it be possible for you to talk to our students on March 19 at L:h5 Dam? If it is impossible, Dr. Allen, for you to meet this engagement, could you delegate the responsibility to someone from Kansas University and imbue them with some of your stage personality? I would appreciate hearing from you as soon as convenient. Yours truly, GU ding CAH:DAG GC. A. Hayek, Principel Moreh 4, 1945. Mr. Ge Ae Huyok, Principal, Washington Rural High Sehool, Bethel, Tangsas. Dear ii. Huyoks Bae ves Sey eek ee ee nat the 25th ultimo asking me to speak at Washington Rural High School on Pridey, March 19th. I am very happy to accept. Sincerely yours, Director of Physical Rhuwation, March 24, 1943. Mr. Me P. Forker, Principal, Pretty Prairie Rural High School, Pretty Prairie, Kansas. Dear Principal Forker: I appreciate very much the compliment you pay me in asking that I serve as your commencement speaker on on Thursday, May 20. I have been serving as vice president of Lawrence Rotary for the past year. It may not be presumptuous ‘to assume that I may succeed to the presidency, unless the direotors ses other- wise. Rotary International meets at St. Louis, Missouri, from Mey 17 to 20, inclusive. Therefore, I am very sure that it will be impossible for me to serve you in the mamer that you ask. However, I do want to thank you sincerely for the compliment. Please convey my best wishes and kindest regards te your senior ——e es ee Sincerely yours, 3 Direetor of Physical Education, FCA: AH Varsity Basketball Coach. Srotty aide Kunal High Dechool Nl. Pp. a Principal R Pp netly D nainie. 5 ren a 22 1943 W. GRABER, Director - NOTESTINE. Treasurer oO . H. SEYB, Clerk FeCeAllen University of Ken sa.se Dear DreAllen: We are’in need of a commencement speaker for Thursday night, “ay 20 and would be delighted to have your services on that occasione I just received a list of the speakers that were available from the extension department to-day and will send them a copy of this letter as they suggested we write directly to theme If at all possible we would be more than happy to have you accept this invitatione If you do accept, what will be your charges? Sincerely yours 2 Z rincipale Cherrpoale Public Schools @ CHERRYVALE, KANSAS November 24, 1942 Dr. F. G. Allen University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas Dear Dr. Allen: I am sorry that you find it inconvenient to speak at our football banquet. Maybe we shall be able to have you come on some other occasion. We have secured another speaker for this occasion. IT’ am sorry not to have written you before this time. I have been extra busy with registration for gasoline rationing. Sincerely, hee A CH aA Senta ap Dacha HON Na hs Novenber 13, 1942. Ur. We R, Whitsel, Superintendent, Cherryvale Public Schools, Cherryvale, Kansas. Dear Mr. Whitszel: : I have received your note of the llth instant, : and frankly, I am in a quandary about the transportation problem. It would be difficult to get to Cherryvale on the train without losing too mich time from my duties here and the gasoline rationing will eo driving my car. Schisilees Seb, weueccs a comme aa" ) Jeck Gardner's Naval Aviation School tean on the 5th. I em having to hold all basketball practice at night because of the crowded schedule during the day. + an donk eens Wik vee We aa Na tee under the ofroumstances. When I told you I would come I of course, planned to drive to Cherryvale. I have just talking to Mr. Vic Hurt, Assistant Coach of the varsity ball team, and he tells me he has to go to P some ‘after the football season is over. I am not endeavoring to pick a speaker for you, but the thought occurred to me that Hr. inert might be able to work Unis in on nis other tip. ag ia tt 3 I shall be glad to have you write me your suggestions. 3 Very sincerely yours, Director of Physioal Education, FCA:AH Varsity Basketball Coach. w. R. WHITZEL, Giliwunidinds @ CHERRYVALE, KANSAS November 11, 1942 Dr. F. C. Allen Department Physical Education University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas Dear Dr. Allen: We are planning for you to be the: guest speaker at our annual Rotary Club football banquet on December 2. Will you please let me know the title of your address? Sincerely, Ostober 24, 1942. our playing the University of Iowa here on December 21st ani then leaving on the 22nd for ow games in New York. We would stey in Chicago on the 23rd. | you that, although I asked Fred to write and tell ) presume that the Christmas celebration might be too much to get the alumi together at that time. However, we could meet the Detroit alumi at that time. Let me know what you think 4 Direetor of Physical Education, POA:AH ‘Varsity Basketball Coach. of _) » Minor Ailments and Limit | i Home Calls, 44 ea (By tne Assoctated Press.) \ATnaANTIc CrTy, June 8 —The| United States is now faced with] pérhaps its gravest rationing prob-| lem—the proper distribution of| medical care. Few people have yet considered| this necessity caused by the calling) of: thousands of physicians into) military service. But to physicians gathering here for the ninety-third annual meeting of the American Medical association it is one of the most acute situations in national defense. “Fhe army medical corps has es- timated that approximately six doctors are needed for every 1,000 men. These are only the physicians needed in administration and med- ical care of soldiers in camps and hospitals and does not include’ those required for field hospitals, base hospitals and front line duty, ag ARMY NEEDS LARGE. (The number needed to take care of the army of 4% million to 5 mil- lion expected to be in service by J@nuary 1, 1943, is a minimum of 30,000, a. maximum of 60,000, In addition, Dr. Oren A, Oliver of Naghville, Tenn., president of the, American Dental association, de- clared 11,200 dentists would be re-| quir an army 1, million men. 30 have already been called into mili-| tary service. “the drain on the nation’s peace-| time supply of doctors is going to be terrific, officials of the American , Medical association declared, since there are now listed only about 181,-' 530 qualified physicians throughout the United States, Alaska, Hawaii | and Puerto Rico. Many of these| have retired from practice, and ap-| ' proximately 3,700 die each year. In| 1941 approximately 5,700 young) physicians and refugee doctors from | foreign countries were licensed to practice. &: . MORE NEW DOCTORS. ‘Association officials estimated that because of increases in medical col- lege enrollment and the speeding up ofecourses the number of new physi- cians should increase by about 25 per cent during the next four years. This, however, will not compen- sate for the number of doctors being called into army and navy service and as a result the American people will be on short medical rations. It will no longer be possible to call for, aphysician to treat every cut or bruise or pain. Only in a severe emergency will physicians be able to make house calls and perhaps the doctor’s first question will be, “Are yen able to walk?” because about ‘per cent of his practice, usually minor ailments, must be treated in his office. He cannot waste tires, gasoline and particularly time, run- ning about the countryside. “Approximately 10,000 physicians, nurses, public health engineers and other specialists are expected to at- tend the annual convention during the coming week. ing the Ford attack. Rudy Korach is the Ford hurling choice. In the first game at Klamm park, ‘Rupert Die Casters seek their. first ‘victory against the Mantle club.) ‘Rupert will pitch Ted Greble, former) Joplin hurler. Red Stout. will pitch ifor his third straight ney for: the "END TO OLYMPIC ‘SPIRIT. [War Cancels Games. as_ World| Knows Them, Austrian Says. (By the ‘Associated Press.) “WASHINGTON, May. 30.—Dr. Theo-) dore- “Schmidt, last president of the strian Olympic committee, says. the war has written “finis” to the Olympic games. as the world knows them, : Recalling that the 1944. games have ‘been allotted to London, the 42-year-old Olympic chef du proto- col said in an interview that “there ‘is of course very little hope the games could be held even in. the: event of peace.” “TJ do not think there will be: the necessary peace spirit in all. na- tions, if there are. some. nations left,” he said, and added that “even the continuation | of the Olympic games as we know them is extremely doubtful because the world will be so changed.” For one thing, he said, the na- | tionalist spirit—triendly but neces-_ sary—upon which the games were. built, might be nonexistent in me post-war world. — He suggested. that there was a possibility, however, that’ the peace treaty makers, recognizing the im-| portance of sports in fostering peace, might include in the treaties provisions for a series of interna- ‘tional contests patterned: roughly after the Olympic model. C. F. SCHNABEL IS HONORED FOR, SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERY. ‘Roasting Green Growth, the Tn- ventor Produces’ Palatable Food, Packed With Vitamins —And Family Benefits. Keep on the grass, advises Charles | F. Schnabel, who did. | This former schoolteacher, who| ‘added grass to the meager diet of | nds six children through jobless de-|_ pression years and watched them grow strong, will receive an hon- orary Doctor of Science degree from | Rockhurst college tonight for his contribution to knowledge about the mysterious body-building vitamins, , The late Marshal Ferdinand Foch is the only other person ever to re- ceive an honorary degree from the Kansas City Catholic school. Foch received his in 1921 when he came: here with World war leaders to dedi- ‘cate the Liberty Memorial shaft. FOR EPOCHAL RESEARCH. | Schnabel’s award is for an epochal discovery, regarding they nutritive ‘value of.grass. It is a story of hard- ‘ships by a little-known researcher lliving at 350 City Park drive, Kan- jsas City, Kansas, where he carried ' on his work, hardships in which the family shared. : Mrs. Schnabel and the six Schnabel children, grass-fed for eleven years, ‘| will watch the commencement ex-| ercises with pride when they begin jat 8 o’clock tonight in the Mason- }Halpin field house. ‘| Schnabel, now a laboratory chem- |’ jist, and Dr. Bernard J. Muller-Thym, ‘assistant professor of philosophy at St. Louis university, a native Kan- sas Citian, will be the only two per- isons to receive honorary degrees ‘tonight on the school’s twenty-fifth ,anniversary. Dr. Muller-Thym will receive a Doctor of Laws degree, j the same as conferred on Foch. The quiet Schnabel, somewhat abashed by his attention, has the’ \|deep-set blue eyees of the dreamer, \rugged features, and a streak of in-| |quisitive persistency. An active | Protestant church worker, his recog- | nition by the Catholic school takes pon added significance. TRIES IT ON CHICKENS, ‘| Seeking a proper poultry food,) jafter what he termed “a colossal _|failure” in the chicken business, | Schnabel hit upon his grass dis-; covery after hundreds of other ex- |} periments had failed. When he found young grass benefited his chickens, he began feeding it to his) family, with astonishing results. Schnabel’s discovery is that young grass, any kind of grass—wheat, oats, rye, barley, bluegrass or corn— reaches its maximum vitamin con- tent just before the grass joints, or usually after eighteen to twenty-one days of growth. His tedious trial ‘jand error experiments have been | .jconfirmed by scientific analyses. After the first joint appears on the 3|grass stem, the assorted vitamins in| »|the stem plummet downward. That. tis why, he insists, that grazing ani-. imals seek the tender’ grass shoots | ;{in preference to taller grasses. | ‘| Don’t jump at the conclusion that you can eat the grass that flies from the lawnmower, Schnabel advises. | It isn’t palatable, and besides, it may | not be cut at the right time or) grown on the right soil. Schnabel’ has worked out a method for cap-' turing the rich vitamins by “flash drying” grasses at high tempera-. _|tures, CREDIT TO MRS. SCHNABEL, “It’s Mrs. Schnabel who ought to have the honors,” the 47-year-old Schnabel modestly related yesterday. “She stood for my experiments when it made our home life pretty diffi- cult.” “Yes,” Mrs. Schnabel added, “he littered up our house with grass. He {broke the teeth out of the sausage grinder and got grass stains on the walls. We’ve had the coal furnace’ going in the spring and summer to| dry grass over the kot air registers, ‘and it wasn’t very comfortable. “T’ve had cakes fall in the oven, and find them filled with grass. .|That all comes of being married to ‘lan inventor,” she said, smiling ‘|\proudly at her husband. | ; "| The Schnabels are proud of their , six sturdy children—David, 9 years ‘lold; Julia, 13; Emily, 14; Edward, (Continued on Page 2A.), ‘/grass a day before they had time to eat other food,” HEAT AS PRESERVATIVE, Schnabel related he began trying to preserve the grass by sun-drying -}on a tar paper roof. Finally, he turned to the oven, and at last the furnace. Bundles of grass were dried in screen trays over the hot air regis- ters. -For three years the Schnabel furnace was turned on in the spring ‘land early summer. He obtained about one to five pounds a day by these crude methods. For three years Schnabel at- tempted to interest feed companies in his discovery without success. In 1935 he went to see Lynwood H. Smith, president of the American Dairies, Inc., about borrowing a vacuum pan for condensing grass juice. Smith became interested in ithe experiment and decided to back him. Cerophyl Laboratories, Inc., was formed. It now has 150 employees and markets a poultry food and a pharmaceutical preparation. Dr. W.|— R. Graham, 35 years old, with a degree from ‘Toronto university, directs a staff of twenty-five in Jaboratory experiments. He had done lindependent research, finding that j black mice developed gray hair if denied certain grass vitamins. t GRASS JUICE FACTOR. ' Dr. George A. Kohler, 29 years old, joined the staff.in 1938 after working out a Ph. D. in biochemistry at the University of Wisconsin on the mys- terious “grass juice factor,” as yet unidentified. The three collaborated on a paper given before the Ameri- can Chemical society last year on the high vitamin concentration in young grass. The Quaker Oats company recently bought.a half interest in the company. The company operates farms in in the Rio Grande valley of Texa jand at Wallaceburg, Ontario. The grass is grown on rich soil, sprayed ,|regularly, cut with a special machine and rushed to the dehydrator and ‘\heated to 1,600 degrees. It then is shipped and made into pellets. You have Schnabel’s word for it ‘ that grass is so full of vitamins they haven’t all been identified. Twelve _|pounds of dried, unjointed grass con- ‘|tains more vitamins than 340 pounds ‘lof vegetables and fruits—more than the average person eats in a year. |. Research has shown the unjointed grass rich in all the vitamins ranging from A, B, B-1, and down through the alphabet, with the exception of ‘|D, supplied by sunlight, The chem- _jists speak of nicotinic acid, carotene, .|riboflavin, thiamin and newer terms ‘lsuch.as cholic acid and the grass juice factor. : It is Schnabel’s hope that grass ‘will be a standard American supple- ment to the diet, cutting the nation’s food bill. One ounce a day is equal |to nine ounces of spinach and let- tuce, he contends. Samples have | been ferried to England by bomber ' for experimental work on foods. Re- search now is going ahead toward adding grass to your breakfast foods, {milk and other products. “People have got to get over think~- ing grass is cow food,” me oane says ‘\the Kaw valley, near Lawrence, Kas.,/f | as GRASS YIELDS A DEGREE (Continued from Page 14.) 16; oe 18, and Charles Schnabel, tot: . pO “We have been eating grass for. jeleven years,” Schnabel related, “and not a one ever has had a de-. cayed tooth, although 90 per cent of the school children do. David: is our grass baby. We started put- ting it in his milk. They’ve had only a few childhood diseases and. almost no colds. Why, I haven’t had one |for three years,” ADDED GRASS TO FOOD. : Jobless from 1930 to 1935, Schnabel jor 12 cents each, by adding powdered igrass to their food. They still take it regularly in concentrated form. With a bachelor’s degree in educa- ‘tion from the University of Missouri, jSchnabel served in France in the ‘World war, and on his discharge be-| gan teaching vocational education in the high schools. Two years was spent at Excelsior Springs, Mo. He quit in disgust when he found “the stuff in the textbooks wasn’t true.” Specifically, a student challenged his assertion that yellow and white, corn were of equal nutritive value.) The student showed him two pens, of pigs, one fed on white corn and one on yellow. The yellow corn-fed pigs were’ far ahead of the others. Later, Schnabel said, laboratory chemists learned yellow corn con- tained vitamin A. .| He began working at the South- ,;western Milling company in 1928, _jand formed a partnership to operate _la large poultry farm near Little ")Blue, Mo. In the fall, half the flock ‘lof 4,500 died and the others were sold. ; “T determined to find out what was wrong,” Schnabel. related. “I knew |that chlorophyl, the green element in leaves, and haemin, ‘the red ele- “|ment in blood, were almost the same 1 chemically. TRIES DIET ON HENS. “T had a hunch the hens died be- cause there wasn’t enough blood- building material in their feed. We owned two acres near City park in! Kansas City, Kansas, so I started! experimenting with small groups of| hens. I fed them up to twenty: vegetables, cabbage, spinach, turnips, | and everything you could think of,, including alfalfa, Nearly every one, of the vegetables and forage crops fed in excess caused trouble. , “I was about ready to quit. In the spring of 1930 I planted some oats for our cow. I ran short of feed for the chickens so I began feeding them oats grass. Then things started to). happen. Egg production from 106 ‘/hens went up from 40.per cent in March to 70 per cent in April, and in July and August it reached 98 per cent. One day I got 126 eggs from 106 hens, It was unheard of. “Y’d get up at 4 o’clock,” he con- tinued, “to cut the. grass, and that was part of the secret. I,fed the chickens twenty-five pounds of oats % a | f | je { i 6S. f i ¥ i if a 6 Pot f ‘ fi o = University of Kansas SCHOOL OF EDUCATION Conference Of School Administrators and Teachers On Looking Ahead For hansas Schools ed June 17, 18, 19, 1942 Fraser Hall Lawrence, Kansas Meeting the Curricular Needs of Kansas Schools WEDNESDAY, JUNE 17, 2:00 P.M. FRASER THEATRE Chairman <.. = _ _. C. 0. Wricer Executive Secretary Kansas State Teachers Association 1, P.E.A. Points A Way to the Secondary School, J. E. SronEcIPHER Director of Senior High Schools Des Moines, Iowa 2. The Significance of the P.E.A. Study to (a) Research (Bb) College Cunicula 2 Ss Pror. E. E. BAYLEs University of Kansas 3. Discussion: C. O. Wricut, J. E. SronecipHer, E. E. BAYLEs. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 17, 8:00 P.M. FRASER THEATRE Chairman Pror. F. O. RussELL “Protecting Democratic Values In A Nation At War” .....22552. oe Pror. NEwTron EpwaArps _ University of Chicago Financing the Program of Kansas Schools ‘THURSDAY, JUNE 18, 9:30 A.M. FRASER ‘THEATRE Chairman Supt. CLIFFORD DEAN Lawrence, Kansas 1. School Support, A State and National Responsibility ....--..-..3/...c00-0: Pror. NEwTon Epwarps University of Chicago Questions by the audience 2. Seminars: A. Financing Student Activities, Fraser ‘Theatre. Leader Prin. G. L. CLELAND B. School Personnel Problems, 207 Fraser. Leader Supt. Donatp R. Linikay Bonner Springs, Kansas C. Tax Education, 110 Fraser. Leader Pror. J]. W. TWENTE University of Kansas LUNCHEON, 12730 © Mig wee oe Memoria UNION BuILpING Chairman Dean G. B. SmitTH “The University Looks Ahead” ........ CHANCELLOR DEANE W. Ma.otTt ‘THURSDAY, JUNE 18, 2:00 P.M. FRASER ‘THEATRE iy ee Supt. F. L. ScHLAGLE Kansas City, Kansas 1. The Closed School Situation F. H. Guirp Director of Research, Legislative Council Topeka, Kansas 2. Important Considerations In pete: Orgamizalon ss. Asst. Supt. W. A. STACEY State Department of Education 3. Discussions: A. State Aid Plans : : Pror. C. B..ALTHAUS University of Kansas y B. a Sales - oe eee Supt. M. F. Starx . Hiawatha, Kansas -C. Extension of Barnes Plan to PI Orntes ees Supt. A. G. SCHROEDERMEIER Dodge City, Kansas ‘THURSDAY, JUNE 18, 8:00 P.M. Hocu AvupITrorRIuM “Town Meeting” WREN Grorce V. DENNY Moderator Meeting the Curricular Needs of Kansas Schools Fripay, JUNE 19, 9:30 TO 10:30 A. Physical Fitness, Mental Health, 110 Fraser. pe ae Leader Pror. F. C. ALL University of Kansas B. Education and Post War Reconstruction, 207 Fraser. Leader Pror. A. H. Turney University of Kansas C. Civic Education Materials, Fraser Theatre. Leader HELEN WAGSTAFF University of Kansas General Meeting, 10:45 a.m. Fraser Theatre Chairman Dean G. B. SmitH “The Challenge To Education eENRE 5 Pror. Newton B. Epwarps University of Chicago Conference Committee: C. B. ALTHAUS F. O. Russe. J. W. Twente