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University Daily Kansan Monday, Jan. 16. 1950
by Dick Bibler
AMother'sLetter Has Value For All
LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS
(The following is a copy of letter sent by a mother to a KU student. We received the copy from the father. For obvious reasons, the identities of those involved must not be divulged. With finals approaching, we thought the contents of this letter might have a helpful effect upon students in similar situations.)
I meant to write to you yesterday and somehow the day got by me without getting to do several things I had intended to do. I seemed to keep busy, but didn't get much done.
Next semester's courses are something else again. I think the time has come for you to forget all advice and decide for yourself the way you really want to go. Decide, within your own knowledge of the situation, a course that will make you the happiest, give you more contentment, more satisfaction and more importance to yourself. Do the things you want to do, develop the talents you think you have.
You have said it would be "too easy"—but being "easy" for you means that it is natural, and it is foolish to waste an ability, whatever that ability may be. Should I learn to run a press instead of learning to play an organ just because the organ is "easy" and the press hard for me? Should Wilt the Stilt keep away from basketball because it is "easy" for him? If people all stayed out of the things that were too simple and easy for them we would never have any outstanding talent developed. There are similar characters in this world, but no two are actually alike and a University is planned so that each individual has a chance to develop himself in his own way.
I was worried about you Saturday night. Pop and I have both had a stomach upset of some kind and I was afraid maybe you were getting it. You didn't seem to be your normal self and I was concerned that either you were sick or you were worried about something. Which? Spat with . . . Want to move back to the house? Or an apartment? Undecided about next semester's courses? Finances? Finals?
I'm afraid you miss the companionship, and being alone hasn't helped your grades, it may even have hindered you in that part of the urge and incentive is missing. The boys and the house are a constant reminder that there are certain "musts" connected with school, and you may need their moral support.
If you want to move back with the boys, go ahead and move.
Finances? Pop says, no problem. Remember there is only one in school now, and you have hardly been a drain. You have handled your money very well and we are both pleased that you have learned the value of being conservative in foolishness so that necessity is taken care of. (bad sentence.)
Hi Son:
Finals? I can't help much there, though a relaxed mind is an asset. I don't mean collapsed, I just mean relaxed and free of tenseness. Maybe alert would be a better word. Any way, you've taken more finals than I have and you know by now that attitude is very important. Just convince yourself that you can do it. I had always thought that I was teaching you that fact, you certainly have never hesitated to tackle anything you wanted to do, but somehow I seem to have left a hole in the dike, so it's up to you to plug it up. You can do it.
Chin up son, and keep in mind that most of us have difficulty crediting our successes. We are more inclined to exaggerate our failures and shortcomings. Stop and look at it, look long enough to see your successes, and what made them successes, then put a grin on your face and go out and accomplish the things you want to do.
Mom
Well, son, here I've gone all out and been "motherly" again, which by now you know I do on occasion. We never seem to have time to just talk anymore. Sometimes it seems the whole world is made up of problems but actually it isn't. We create the problems, each one of us in a different way, and the end result depends on our ability first to see the problem, and second to act on it. Success is limited only by our own willingness to work at it.
Sour note MU 76-KU 54. Enough? Pop will probably be eating TUMs all day.
"I KNOW SOMEONE FLUNKING IN EVERY ONE OF MY COURSES ~~ ME."
(Listed below are 10 questions frequently asked about the Salk vaccine. Answers are given by Dr. Hart E. Van Riper, medical director, National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis.)
Q. How effective is the Salk vaccine?
Doctor Gives Answers About Salk Vaccine
A. The vaccine usd during the 1954 field trials was 60 per cent to 90 per cent effective against paralytic polio. There is reason to believe that the vaccine being used today is even more effective.
A. Every possible assurance. The vaccine used in the field trials caused neither polio nor any other major reactions. Stringent tests for safety are required by the U.S. Public Health Service on every lot of vaccine released for use.
Q. How long does it take for polio to incubate?
A. From three to 35 days, but most often in the neighborhood of two weeks. If a person is vaccinated after he has been infected with the polio virus, the vaccine cannot prevent the disease.
Q. Is one shot enough for full long-term protection?
A. No. Three are needed. The first shot begins to take effect in from seven to 10 days. The second shot, two to four weeks after the first, brings a sharper rise in antibodies. With these two injections, a child should be protected from paralytic polio for a polio season. For long-lasting immunity a third or booster shot should be administered seven months later.
A. Yes. According to Dr. Salk, the effect of the first shot is not lost even if the second shot cannot be given for many months afterwards.
Q. If the second shot is delayed,
will it be effective later on?
A. There hasn't been enough time since the vaccine was developed to answer this question.
On a March of Dimes grant, Dr. Salk is continuing studies that will provide this knowledge.
Q. How long does the protection given by, the vaccine last?
Q. Does the vaccine prevent non-paralytic polio?
A. No. But polio infection without paralysis does not give an individual a permanent handicap and so is not important as a health problem. Although some cases of non-paralytic polio cause extreme temporary discomfort, most are not diagnosed or reported, being so mild as to be passed off as a cold or the grippe.
A. Yes. There are three types of polio virus and a person who has recovered from infection by one
Q. Should people who have had pello be vaccinated?
Q. What research still is needed in the vaccine field?
type is not necessarily immune to the other two.
A. March of Dimes research is continuing to improve the Salk vaccine; to determine the best time intervals and size of doses for long-lasting protection; to find out if occasional booster shots of the vaccine are needed over the years; and to discover more suitable strains of virus for the vaccine. Other research is devoted to improving production methods and finding other types of vaccines.
Q. Is polio conquered yet?
A. No. But we now know that its control is feasible and, when vaccine supplies allow vaccination of all those in the most susceptible groups, we should see a diminishing rate of paralytic polio. However, there still may be thousands of cases in 1956 as there were in 1953. The National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis is continuing its research and professional education programs and must also provide care for the thousands of patients for whom the vaccine comes too late.
More than 50 cents out of every dollar sought by the March of Dimes this year must go for the care of tens of thousands of polio patients who require assistance. Your contribution to the March of Dimes will give these patients a chance to rebuild their lives and become useful citizens in their communities.
University of Kansas Student Newspaper News Room, KU 251, Ad Room, KU 376 Member of the Inland Daily Press association. Represented by the National Advertising service, 420 Madison adam. N.Y. Mail subscription rates: $3 a semester or month. Postmaster's office at Lawrence. Published at Lawrence Kanz., every afternoon during the University year except Saturdays and Sundays. Publication and examination periods. Entered as second matter. Sept. 17, 1910; at Lawrence, Kanz., office under act of March 3, 1879.
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Louis L. Hell, Lee Ann Urban, Associate Editors
a bit o' blarney
By LEO FLANAGAN
(Daily Kansan Editorial Editor)
Included in the pages of almost every newspaper are little pearls of wisdom called fillers. These fillers are bits of information, largely useless, which are used just as their name implies, to fill up space.
As a starter, how's this one? Export sales of agricultural and vegetable seeds will be expedited by an agricultural department seed tasting service. Would anyone like to apply for the position of seed taster? The pay isn't much, but you can't beat the meals.
And did you know that butter can be made from the milk of zebus? Well obviously the peoples of India and China know it, because they just milk the dickens out of those old zebus. The next time you go to the grocery store ask for a pound of zebus butter—then run like the devil.
Here's something for Rover and Tabby. Commercial powders containing rotenone or pyrethrum will control fleas on dogs and cats. Say-y-y now, that's really something. When you go for your zebus butter, don't forget to get flea powder with rotetone or pyrethrum—and don't accept a substitute! Get the real stuff!
Did you know that Achilles chased Hector three times around the walls of Troy? The modern sequel to this has been Zsa Zsa Gabor's chase of Porfirio Rubirosa around the world. But whereas Achilles got his man, Zsa Zsa's still running, and on her it looks good.
And how about this—an important advantage of the loose housing system for dairy cows is the lower risk of injury to legs and udders. To re-use an oft-quoted pun, this is "udder" nonsense.
At the beginning of this semester we claimed that the female of the species was secretly making the campuses of the country nothing but mass marriage bureaus. To these females, we dedicate this last filler.
American women use enough lipstick every year to paint 40,000 barns. And just like the farmer, they generally leave open the "barn door" surrounded by this lipstick.
This subtle plan, when disclosed, squelched a rumor that the $261.55 that K-State had to pay for paint was being used to renovate Bailey hall at KU. Bailey Hall's renovation at a cost of $600,000 touched off the rumor.
An insidious plan by KU to bring K-State gradually to the point of bankruptcy has been uncovered. This plan is subtly draining the K-State treasury, and a prominent mathematician has established that in 35,316 years K-State will be destitute
This plan was brought to light after KU billed K-State for $386.49 for damages to the KU campus during the week of the K-State-Kansas U football game. Damages by Jayhawks to the local campus cost KU $51.27. This left K-State on the short end by $335.22.
Wildcats Cry Over Spilt Milk
The disclosal also shot the horse from under three other ugly rumors. One rumor had it that the $335.22 would be used to set up a football scholarship at KU; the second said the money would go for an 8-foot bed for the KU basketball team; and the third said it would be used to purchase a gilt frame of the 1956 KU-K-State peace pact.
Concern for the long-range future of K-State was shown by a group of students who proposed that a sinking fund be set up to cover future vandalism by unthinking K-Staters.
Under this proposal, each student would pay 10 cents into the sinking fund when he paid his fees at fall enrollment. This would bring in about $600, which would cover one football game and two basketball games with KU (if the childish K-Staters didn't go overboard during basketball season).
Naturally, those who first enrolled in January wouldn't be allowed to participate in vandalism that semester, since they wouldn't contribute to the fund until the coming fall.
Concern was shown in some circles that, with almost $600 to spend, the students might go overboard and use up all their credit at the fall football game. Kansas State Collegian
Comment: Touche' Pussycat.