UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
PROF. HOOD INVENTS PERFECT INSULATION
To Manufacture Substance Almost a Complete Barrier to Heat and Cold
BETTER FIRELESS COOKERS
More efficient means of preserving and preparing cooked food is the latest boon conferred on the domestic science department of the University and the housewives of the nation, by the School of Engineering of the University Kansas. This latest addition to the already long list of benefits conferred on the state and humanity at large by the University is an improved and highly efficient fireless cooker and refrigerator.
Refrigerators and Locomotive Boile Jackets a Few of Its Uses—To Be Made in Lawrence.
After four years of exhaustive experiments and tests, Prof. Geo. J. Hood, has perfected a new insulating material, whose immediate use is found in the manufacture of fireless cookers and refrigerators. The fireless cookers made from it are in many ways better than others now on the market. The ordinary fireless cooker, which holds heat for about four and one half hours is generally a heavy, cumbersome, box-like affair, made from wood, aluminium and mineral-wood.
INSULATION NEARLY PERFECT
The insulating qualities of the ordinary cooker are such that hot iron or soapstone disks must be used in cooking in it. In Professor Hood's new cooker, the insulating properties are so nearly perfect that the cooker is much more compact, and so efficient that no hot plates or disks are necessary in its operation.
These new cookers can be enamelled like metal, thus making them as sanitary as possible. Furthermore, the substance from which the cookers are made, is absolutely impervious to water, hot or cold, is as light as aluminum, and will withstand any amount of rough usage.
As used in refrigerators, it will prove a great boon to those who suffer from heavy ice bills, since the non-conducting properties of the material cause the ice to last much longer than in the ordinary refrigerator. It is in this line of manufacture that the company now chartered in Lawrence, expects to speech with a capital of $20,000, and as soon as the Fowler Shops can make the necessary machinery, the plant will commence manufacturing articles made with this new discovery.
The new substance will also find a practical use in the insulation of refrigerator cars and cold storage containers, boilers, pipes, and locomotives.
FOURTH GRAD RECITAL
IN FRASER TONIGHT
Miss Josephine McCammon Will be Graduated Toys by a Palm Tree
Miss Josephine McCannon will give her graduating pao recital, assisted by Miss Constance McCannon, reader, this evening. An excellent program, including Sherzo in B flat minor, by Professor Prever, will be presented by the Misses McCannon. The recital will begin at 8:30 P. M. in Fraser hall.
The program:
Prelude and Fugue in D -Bach-
Phillip, Miss Josephine McCammon
Behind a Curetain—Mrs. Burton Harrison,
Miss Constance McCammon.
Ballad in G. Minor, Op. 24—Grieg,
Miss Joseph McCammon.
Dramatic Monolog, "Chatterton"
Rick Johnson Young, "Containant"
Mike Curtis
Vecchio Minutto, Sgambati; Arabesque in G, Debussy; Scherzo in B flat minor, Preyer, Miss Josephine McCommon.
Mia Carletta, Italian Author. Musical Reading: Three Little Chestnuts, N. Clifford Page, Miss Constance MeCcommon.
Concerto in E flat, Liszt; Miss Jose-
huine McCammon.
Second paino Accompaniment, Professor Breyer.
Poet—I called to see if you had an opening for me.
Editor—Yes, there's one right behind you; shut it as you go out, please.
OLD K. U. FOOTBALL STAR
TAKEN WITH 'THE BENDS'
O; K. Williams, an old K. U. football star, who played with Bert Kennedy and Arthur St. Leger Mosein in 1948, was stricken with "the bends" recessity.
"The bends" is due to unusual air pressure in a caisson or in deep mines. No satisfactory explanation is given of the disease.
Williamson is the Wyandotte county engineer and was stricken while making the final inspection of the caisson of a Kansas City bridge at a depth of ninety-two feet.
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HE IS THE CAMPUS ENGINEER OF TREES
Red-Headed Woodpecker Has Contract to Kill the Destroying Grubs
MUSIC FESTIVAL NOT
On Engineers' day, it seems fitting to celebrate the virtues of that engineer among birds, the red headed woodpecker, Peckeria Midean Erythropterus.
This year, for the first time, the number of student tickets sold for the music festival shows a decrease from the previous year. Only 317 were sold this year which is 77 less than the number, 484, last year. "I think this is due to the unusually large number of counter attractions this year," said Dean Skilton this afternoon.
A FINANCIAL SUCCESS
Jane Bruce Pattie, of] Kansas City; spent the week end at the PI Phl house.
Mary Darlington has returned to her home in Kansas City after spending the week end with Ethel Morrow.
Two Seniors Studying Defects of Universal Joints of Automobiles.
TEST MOTOR TRANSMISSION
The Kansas alumni are organized and hold an annual banquet at the principal hotel on the day before the Kansas-Missouri football game. The alumni also have a bowling team in the intercollegiate bowling league, in which twenty-four technical schools contest.
The townpeople attended in as large numbers as usual this year but the non-support of the festival by students resulted in a deficiency. There is a reserve fund which will be drawn on to make up the loss.
KANSAS CITY THEATERS
In nearly all makes of automobiles, there is a loss of power in the universal joint which connects the driving shaft from the engine with the rear axle.
$200,000 in Gifts For Princeton.
$200,000 in Gifts for Princeton.
Gifts to the amount of $200,000 were announced at the last regular meeting of the trustees of Princeton University, among them $65,000 from Mrs. Russell Sage for the completion of the Holder Cloister, work on which was begun the first of the month.
Few manufacturers know how much power is lost in this manner and for that reason two mechanical engineers are making serious efforts to acquire various autos to get data on the subbjects.
An electric motor drives a dynami with the shaft,transmitting the power. The current from the generator is then used to furnished part of the current used by the motor. This current i
A few holding important positions at the present time are, C. W. Stone,'96, head of the lighting department and consulting engineer; C. H. Clark,'04, superintendent of power; J. T. Flickenger,'01, assistant superintendent of turbine production; C. Reid,'07, and H. P. Broderson,'08, assistant foreman of the testing department, and H. Maxwell,'00, induction motor engineer.
Agnes Meyer of Kansas City, was in Lawrence for Pi Phi Founder's Day banquet Saturday evening.
The General Electric Company of Schenectady, N. Y. has twenty-eight alumni of the University of Kansas in its employ. Many of these hold responsible positions with the company, and Kansas men are in demand at all times.
And his work is done with the mathematical precision of the true engineer, neatly spaced holes, truly and exactly drilled in a round around the grub. Surely no wood burrowing grub could escape that methodical destroyer.
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He is the means of saving thousands of trees yearly, and is of inestimable assistance to the preservation of our forests. Indeed, one wookpecker can save more trees than a whole conservation congress!
KANSAS MEN IN DEMAND
WITH MATHEMATICAL PRECISION
Some farmers and tree owners try to kill the Woodpecker, in the groundless fear that his drilling might kill the trees. But such is not the case. With a wise foresight it would seem, this insetial engineer drills his holes around the trunk, so as to entirely avoid any danger of gridding the tree.
Eastern Electric Company Has Twenty-Eight University Men Employed
Coming : Margaret Illington in Kindling
SAMS SHUBERT THIS WEEK
LYMAN H. HAWES
TRAVEL FESTIVAL
Twice Daily
Coming : Margaret Illington in Kindling
However, his life is not all play, and there are times when his real and serious work is of great benefit to the farmer and forester. For this tiny feathered engineer with the gray red-topped uniform is a great destroyer that wears horns and grubs that eat inside in the wood and inner bark of the trees.
cephus. Up among the higher branches of a dead cottonwood he may be heard sounding his "R-r-R-r-r," as he taps the resounding wood with his flying bill-hammer. He makes a noise like a little rivet-work but here he is not doing an engineer's work, only calling to his mate, or sending a general challenge to the bird world at large. Now and then his cheery "wep" "wep" sounds across the campus as he raises his head to observe the results of his signalling, or to watch for a passing hawk.
ELECT NEW OFF!CERS
At the meeting of the K, U. Debating
Soccer last week officers were elected for
the team.
Next Year
They are as follows: president, Wayne Edwards; vice-president, A. B. Campbell; secretary, John Madden; Censor, Fred Soper; Assistant consultant, Walter Griffin; Membership committee, Charles Fairchild, chairman, Walter Station, George W. Marks; program committee, Avery Olney, chairman, Emmet Bennett, Herbert Flint; press correspondent, James Houghton. In the regular program before the election Robert Fisher, Frank Carson and John Probst succeeded in convincing the judges that prohibition is a more effective way to promote temperance than high license. John Madden, Clarence Castle and Paul Ross spoke on the negative.
K. U. Debating Society Meets and Discusses Plans for
WILLIS WOOD THIS WEEK EVA LONG
measured and shows the loss caused by the defective transmission due to the
YALE STUDENTS DROWN
L. A. Brown and C. H. Martison are the students doing the work and the data obtained will be the basis for their senior theses.
Power Canoe Capsized With Youth Who Sailed With Peary.
Crescent Beach, Conn., April 28. George Borup of New York, who was with Pearly in his successful dash to the North Pole, and Samuel Winship Case of Norwich, Conn., both graduate students, landed Sound this afternoon when their power canoe was overturned by a heavy sea.
Two Perfect Women
Two girls of Radcliffe College have been declared perfect athletes after having won a perfect score of 100 on the difficult skill and muscle testing tests.
The tests required were rotary hand traveling, rope climbing, fence vaulting, horse vault, somersault wing jump, and "window ladder."
A Women's Press Club has been organized at Stanford University. It is composed of women who have contributed articles to magazines or papers.
Lady "Cubs" Organize.
Home made pies at Soxman's.—
Adv.
Marion Mervine '10, and Ruth Mervine '12, of Kansas City, were at the Pi Phi house over the week end.
The Girl of the Golden West Next Week—"Love Matches."
Sometimes called the "Juice Dispensary"
BOWERSOCK THEATER Friday, May 3d HOOT MON; THE "Kilties"
Bellville, Ont.
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Their troupe of Scotch Highland Dancers that always thrill.
PRICES—Matinee, 50 and 75.
Night, 25, 50, 75, and $1.00.
Really pleased with their unique entertainment ranging from bag-pipe solo to the rendition of the greatest works of the Masters of Music.
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Those Shoes You Want Repaired.
Everybody knows that fraternal orders perform an important function in society and that they are worthy of the encouragement that they receive. Lawrence has always been hospitable to such organizations and in return has become a large place on the map of fraternaldom. One of the most impressive Masonic temples in the West may be seen in this city. The Eagles lodge has a fine new building. The Fraternal Aid Association has its general offices here, housed in a magnificent three story office building. Other orders enjoy the prosperity that comes with large membership. The fraternal spirit is strong in the Athens of Kansas.
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Phone 77. Auto Livery
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