November 6, 1944. Professor A. W. Davidson, Department of Chemistry. . Dear Professor Davidson: I have just had the protecting support placed back on the bumper of my car. They had to take off a part of the bumper to get this readjusted. The charge was $2.00. You may send it to me at your convenience. Sincerely yours, Director of Physical Education, FCA:AH Varsity Basketball Coach. Ootober 10, 1944. Notional Bank of Tulsa Building, Dear Jack: It was good to gee you when we were in Tulsa I am sending you one of the Jayhawk Rebounds, a monthly letter that I get out to om boys overseas. I wonder if you would give me a list of the boys who _ were at the Jayhawker luncheon. I have sent tw or ~ ‘three of them the Rebounds, but I would like to send them to the others. If you would kindly give me their names and addresses, as you remember them, I would greatly appreciate. Very sincerely yours, Director of P hysical Education, FGA: AH Varsity Basketball Coach. — October 3, 1944. Major Fenlon Durand, Junetion City, Kansas. Dear Fen: Iwas terribly disappointed that I did not get to see you when you stopped by the house to say hello. But you did more than your part. You called at the office and then went to the house. This break was against me, as I assure you that nothing would have given me more pleasure than to have grasped your victorious hand and have given you the Phi Kappa Psi clasp. What a splendid record you have mde, and what a wonderful thrill you imparted to the Ailen household when you stopped by to see then. I must confess something to you that you must not tell, but Major Burt DeGroot had called at the house and the girls were upstairs. They did not think they were presentable to come down. Burt DeGroot was in our department of Physical Education and the family lives at Palo Alto, and Mrs. DeGroot is a good friend of Mary's. Mrs. Allen was visiting with him, but when they looked out and saw Major Fenlon Durand coming up the sidewalk they recognized him and they tore down the steps to greet a hero from the South Pacific. So you see how you rate in the Allen Gals' books, and that goes for the whole femily, Fen, including the male members » 7 | I certainly do want to see you and have a long visit. I won't talk about the things that you don't want to talk about, but we will have plenty to shew the fat over. I sincerely hope that you are enjoying a, splendid rest, and I know how wonderfully happy the old folks are to have you back. Just to put your feet under Ma's and Pa's table is mental and spiritual food as well as food that sustains the body. There is nothing more that I can say at the moment, only that all of us feel that we are debtors to you. Will see you at Homecoming, if not ‘before. With all good wishes, I an Fraternally yours ,- | / ‘ Director of Physical Education, FCA :AH Varsity Basketball Coach. Ostober 5, 1944. Mr. Don Diehl, A/S, Corpsman Barracks, U. S&S. Naval Hospital, Norman, Oklahoma. Dear Don: Mighty happy to get your letter and to know that you are going to be back with us if you don't get too seasick around the Waves. Sounds rather a paradox, doesn't it, Don? You say, "I'm now working on a sick Waves ward. « « « « Most of my spare time is going to athletios.” What kind of athletics do you have down there? Don, of course you know I am just kidding, just to get a laugh. I am glad that you are using the old A.P. 1,2,3,4, and so forth, and that will be good practice for you. And the fact that you are working on it down there will make it easier for you when you come up here. I will be mighty glad to have you. We met the squad for the first time yesterday efternaon, and had 39 out. Not a single man had ever been out for the varsity before. Dean Corder is on restriction and cannot compete for two weeks yet. They caught him playing poker after the lights were out and he was socked thirty days, Bill Lindquist flunked out and cannot return. Lou Goehring will leave November lst, and Bob Malott will soon be moving, I guess. Yes, I am going to be in Tulsa the 7th of October and I will see you. Mr. 3. C. uigley asked me to take his place at the rally down there Thursday night at some dinner meeting at the hotel. When I see you we will talk a lot about athletics at K.U, I think they are definitely on the upgrade and going places. 3 I will oven your greetings to your friends, and hope to see you next ory Very sincerely yours, Director of Physical Education, FCA:AH Varsity Basketball Coach. eas te Mt: fmay pa fea a Ce. cone Ze Ee settmngeny om i Rls oe oe | o> La es, the. ae Bee PS nditad pp slated (toblng ome iland os sti cenilons ae Yfrvtmaben Sae aS wah! S seffon Gporks, Wrcd ty fi hp 5 hese ithe jee Lime Ae web on ~~ Tn the 0% of ditt eens oy Pe, pont i ~? Ath Ll , st $445 foe Tell voenghoky ~~ evn ee fm, Chie a capo a ~~ . . a f4) Lawrence | ie&etober Kansas ff 944 ae, , Baste aa oe o ABOUT? HEALTH THE DOUGLAS COUNTY HEALTH UNIT, City Hall, Massachusetts Street, at llth, functions daily from 8:00 A.M. to 5:00 P.M. Come in and tell us your troubles. ANENT STATISTICS » STATISTICS are always dry--and should be. They are dead, finished, erystallized--and should be. We need a few stabilized statements of facts and collections of such statenents for study and comparison. Any change, forward or backward from such statements would be other Statistics. , | Let me hope you are interested in knowing that 74 persons died in Douglas County during the first half of 1944. In the same period 105 people died in the city of Lawrence. Births were respectively 96 and 153--one woman lost her life in her effort for motherhood. Five bab- ies were stillborn--2 in the county and 3 in Lawrence. There were 16 deaths from cancer of which probably more than half might have been prevented. In the county, 1 dicd of tuberculosis and in the city ll. All of these should have been prevented. There were 10 fatal accidents in the county and 9 in the city--19 in all. At least 10 of these should have been prevented or avoided. Summarizing to this point, there were at least 50 preventable deaths in this county the first half of this year. If the average age was 40 and the average expectancy was 25 years when they dicd, we lost 750 years of human life, well up to the life of the man who made the re- cord for longivitys Suppose these people worked 300 days a year (which they probably would not) their untimely deaths mean a loss to us of 225,000 labor days. Say the average work day will be 6 hours, this means « loss of 1,550, 000 hours of more or less productive labor. Computed on present price of 3 hours for $2.00 this means a financial loss of $900,000.00. Add to this the $7500.00 or so that their funerals cost and we conclude that if we could savo only a quarter of this loss a $15000.00 annual budget for health would show an interest return that would make any Shylock's voice tremble and his eycs snap. RATS Speaking of money and thinking of rats reminds me that our sanitarian, Howard Weindcl, who recently did some special work on rat control in Denver, knows a lot of interesting things about rats. When he has time he tells things about them. He says they have something like a symbi- osis with human kind, i.c. in goneral they live only where people do, make their nests or houses almost entirely of materials that have beon handled by humans and like to live in places in or near where people visit frequently. P.2 In any settled region the rat population is essentially the samo as the humen population. Ten years ego, it was estimated from careful studies that each rat consumed food to the cost of $2.00 each year and thet he spoiled ten times as much more. In the present mild inflation, this moans that each rat costs about $30.25 each year. Multiply this sum by 25000, « low estimate on the number of our rats in this county, and we have $756,250.00. This would oasily build us two new court houses each year. paves COLDS One of the trends in medical nomenclature (accent on second syllable) is to become more specific. Thus: in the memory of numerous people now living "Inflammation of the Bowels" has become "Appendicitis" and at least nine other discasos, all separately described and recognizable. Eczema (accont on the first syllable) has been restricted by the recog- nition and naming of so many of its protean manifestations that what remains is almost synonymous with "I don't know" or the more dignified but equally uninforming "G.O.K.", (God only knows) used in some hospi- tals. "Cold" is such a name for a disease or a group of discascs. This name is applicd to less and less as time goes on, but the group remains in status quo. Reminds one of Shakespeare's lines about names, I cannot begin with a definition of the common cold much as I would like to. Apparently not all colds are cxactly alike. They vary much from time to timc and from person to person. Epidemics of colds are often seen. Some of these arc dignified with special names--such as "Rose Cold", ctc. No one agent or circumstance scems to cause all colds. Food deficien- cics, vitamin imbalance, bacteria, pollons, dust, exposure, viruses have, singly end in combinations, been set up and discussed as causing colds. Even the mental and emotional condition seems to have some- thing to do about it or with it. Arc colds contagious? Apparently some of them are, and it passes from onc person to another by actual or near actual contact. So far as known such contact is effective only when made on mucous membrane-- not on the skin. This means that if you must kiss your child or some other friend while you have a cold, do it on his forehead or tho back of his neck. Also avoid staying Tong with him in a small closed placo. In the general prevontion of each there are two widely divergent sys- toms of practicce,-- a. seeks to build up a rosistenco by using all the known factors including that of fractional natural vaccinations, so gront that no reasonable exposure will produce an appreciable effect and b. seoks to avoid all exposures and conditions known to promote colds. In the whole populetion, they are about equally succossful or unsuccessful. The "a" group becomes rugged, careless of health pro- cautions and completely devoid. of cold consciousness, whereas tho Wp* group becomes softer each yoar, is over cautious about health and gets to be painfully and annoyingly cold conscious. The great mass of people to which most of us belong do not think or do much about it either way. Maybe we should! H. Le. Chambors, M.D.