UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
WILLIAM YOST MORGAN President of the Kansas State Edial orid Association
TO ANALYZE WATER OF KANSAS TOWNS
Professor Young Sends Circular Letter Asking For Samples.
SUBJECTED TO THREE TESTS
Contamination Does Not Necessarily Mean Disease Germs—Lawrence Water in Excellent Condition
Professor C. C, Young, head of the water analysis department recently sent out requests to 169 Kansas towns, requesting that a sample of the water in that locality be sent to the University for analysis every three months.
As a result, the samples in send have increased so that the various departments concerned in the work are kept constantly busy. In order to insure receiving the water in the same condition as it is sent, it is necessary that the university send out sterilized containers in which the water is sent back.
Usually a surplus of containers is on hand at the University, but at present all of them are out over the state. This is because the snow which has covered the state so long, has prevented the securing of samples in the water, making water of certain communities, and has prevented prompt transportation.
UNDERGOES THREE TESTS.
UNDERGES THREE TESTS.
Whether or not water is infected,
cannot be determined by any one
process. The results of three tests
must show that the water is contaminated
before it is condemned. The sample
sent in is divided between the chemical
and the bacteriological departments.
Professor Noble Sherwool and Miss Greenfield have charge of the bacteriological analysis. They test for the presence of bacillus coli in the water,
Ox bile is procured from Swift and Co. of Kansas City. To a solution of the tile and water there is added one percent of milk sugar and one percent of peptones. If bacillus coli is present the solution ferments and a gas is formed. Since there is a chance for errors, a chemical test is also made.
Prof. C, C. Young, F. W. Bruckmiller and C. G. Bragg make the chemical analysis. The chief aim of this test is to discover nitrates in the water. The bacillus coli turn the nitrite compounds into nitrates, and consequently, there is an abnormal amount of nitrates in the water, it is condemned. A sanitary survey is also made near the place where the water comes from, in order to determine the source of the contamination. This is made by sending out a list of questions from the University.
DISEASE GERMS NOT MAIN OBJECT.
These tests are not made directly to discover the presence of typhoid or other disease germs, as is naturally presumed, but to discover whether or not it is contaminated. When the patient has been treated with typhoid and other disease germs, and it may not. In either case it is not fit for use, so condemned.
Mr. Sherwood says that the city water at present is in excellent condition. Its shows only fifty organisms to the cubic centimeter when viewed from above. The injected water contains at least five hundred organisms to the cubic centimeter.
AFTS SON LEADS CLASS
AND EDITS LAW REVIEW
President Taft's son Robert, who leads his class in Harvard law school was recently elected editor-in-chief of the Harvard Law Review. The paper is published by students in the law school and an election to its board is an honor.
A Taft club has also been organized for purpose of disseminating knowledge of the present administration and for entertaining prospective speakers of the club and its guests. The son of Chief Justice Hughes is president of this organization.
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OFFICERS OF THE STATE EDITORIAL ASSOCIATION
CLYDE KNOX
Sedan Times-Star
Vice President
MACK CRETCHER
Sedgwick Pantagraph
Corresponding Secretary
CHAS. H. BROWNE Horton Headlight Recordning Secretary
WILLIS E. MILLER
St. Marys Star
Treasurer
STUDENTS CAMPAIGN FOR BOARD MEMBERS
Enter Politics to Elect Men Favorable to New School Building
Chegney County High School, April 6.—The students are campaigning for their candidates for the school board. They are doing this in hopes of getting a new high school building.
Over One Half Wear Spectacles.
Over one half of the students here wear spectacles.
FOR SIXTH TIME IOLA
WINS LITERARY CONTES
By Ralph H., Price.
by Ralph H. Price.
Iola High School, April 6. — For the fifth time Iola defeated Fort Scott in the Annual Literacy Contest held here Friday. Six sucessive contests have been held in the past six years.
Fort Scott won the declamation and the oration while Iola won the essay and the debate, the latter counting two points and others one each.
White City Wins First Game. By Fred Miller.
Herington High School, April 6.— White City won the first baseball game of the season this afternoon by a score of 2 to 1.
Herrington Proud of Murray,
Herrington High School, April 6.
Roy Murray, who won the two mile
run in the track meet between Kannas and Missouri Friday, was not heavy enough to lead in the football team work at the high school. In leader in track work at the high school.
Boys Go Out For Exercise.
By Irene Rugles.
Mankato High School, April 6- The girls of the Mankato high school, have been having the exclusive use of the high school gymnasium this year. They have been organized into classes and regular gym work at the Y. M. C. A.
Puts Shot 371½ Feet.
By Paul Hoffmann.
Ellsworth High School, April 6.
James Holt has made a record of thirty seven and one half feet in the shot put.
Fixed Salary at $1,500.
Bv Irving Brown.
By Irving Brown.
Burlington, April 6—
W. S. Rupsa has been resecured super-
intendent of the city schools with a
salary of $1,500 a year.
"A Strenuous Life" For Seniors.
By Adele King.
Valedictorian Determined By Albert Randolph
Coffeyville High School, April 6.—The Seniors have chosen for their class play, "A Strenuous Life." The cast has been chosen and they are now busy working on their parts.
Clay County High School, April 6 —The grades of the seniors have been averaged to determine the valedictorian. The highest average was 94 34-37 per cent, by Miss Allene Wilson in the collegiate and normal courses.
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