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Satellite, Polio Experts Slated For Science Day
The fourth annual Science and Mathematics Day will be held Oct. 28 at KU. The conference, for high school students and their parents and teachers, is open to the public
Speakers will be Richard W. Porter, General Electric consultant working on the artificial satellite program; Herbert A. Wenner, director of the polio research program at the KU School of Medicine, and P. C. Sylvester-Bradley. Rose Morgan professor.
Dr. Porter, who received his bachelor of science degree from KU in 1934, directed the GE scientists who developed the automatic radar tracking system during World War II. Later he studied the German V-2 rocket from wreckage found in England.
Gets 875 Million
As president of the American Rocket Society, he has taken the lead in briefing newsmen who will report the manufacture and launching of the proposed earth satellite vehicle.
Dr. Wenner, who came to the Medical Center in 1946, was granted $75 million for research by the March of Dimes. His laboratory at the Medical Center conducted more blood sample tests than any other laboratory in the 1954 polio vaccine field tries.
Dr. Sylvester-Bradley, geology lecturer at Sheffield University will speak on "Life on Other Worlds," an analysis on what forms life would assume on worlds similar to the earth.
Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy will address the opening session of the conference. R. C. Mills, professor of biochemistry, will speak in the afternoon on "What Makes a Good Science Project?"
Committee Members
Members of the planning committee are G. B. Price, professor of mathematics, general chairman; Daniel Ling, associate professor of physics, program chairman; Dr. Mills, exhibits chairman.
Committee members are Herbert A. Smith, associate professor of education, David Paretsky, associate professor of bacteriology, and Irvin Youngberg, executive chairman of the Endowment Association; publicity; E. A. McFarland, Bureau of Institutes manager, Curtis B. Harris, University Extension representative, arrangements.
Girls, It's A Chance To Be An Editor
If any of you girls are interested in a summer guest editorship on the staff of Mademoiselle magazine, here's your chance.
The magazine's campus reporter, Miss Pat Moores, is on the campus to explain the College Board contest for the 20 guest editorships. The contest is open to undergraduate women between the ages of 18 and 26
She'll entertain young women interested in the contest at a tea from 4:30 to 5:30 today in the Pine Room of the Student Union, and will talk to girls at three meetings in Room 305. She'll hold personal conferences tomorrow.
For more information and for appointments, see or call Janis Johanson, Kansas City, Mo., senior, or Jane Pecinovsky, Leawood junior, both members of the College Board.
Hot lye water is an effective disinfectant for washing contaminated barns and pens on the farm.
Items for the Official Bulletin must be brought to the Public Relations office, 222-A Strong, before 9:30 a.m. on the day of publication. Do not bring your notes unless they are necessary. Notices should include name, place, date, and time of function.
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Baptist Student Union—Devotions and
Prayer, 12:30 to 12:50 p.m., Danforth
Chapel. Meets every Monday, Tuesday
and Thursday.
Russian Color Film, "Sadko," 4 p.m.
and 7:30 p.m., Malott.
KU *Dames*—Get acquainted party, 8m.
KU *stom*, Student, Union.
All student wives get
MENC open meeting 5. p.m., 37
weeks weekweek weekweek weekweek
the School Curriculum."
University Daily Kansan
Snow Zoology Club, 7.30 p.m., 206 Snow Hall, Dr. A. B. Leonard, "Distributional Problems among Terrestrial Mollusca." Everyone welcome.
Tuesday
Poetry Hour, 4 p.m. Music Room. Student Union, Wortham Hall. Hopkins, University of Worthing.
Girls State alumnae. 4 p.m.
Sunflower River. 8 a.m. Discuss
state women's club.
Thursday
Museum of Art film on art, 7:30 p.m. and 9 p.m. 18th century life in Williamsburg. (color). Salzburg. (black and white).
Staff Member Paid For Article
The Christian Science Organization, 7
p.m. Danforth College Students faculty.
Mrs. Oscar M. Verschleiser received $5 for her contribution to the "Why Don't They" column in the October issue of the American magazine. Mrs. Verschleiser is employed in the dean of women's office. Her husband is a Brooklyn, N.Y. junior.
Engineers To Elect Freshman
5 Days Left For TB Check
Elections for a freshman representative to the Engineering Student Council will be held tomorrow in Fraser Theater during engineering lectures.
Only five more days remain for persons who are associated with housing and feeding of students to obtain an X-ray check for tuberculosis.
Dr. Ralph I. Canuteson, director of the Student Health Service, said "response to the program has been rather slow with mostly house-mothers taking the check."
The annual check by the health service at Watkins Hospital started Oct. 3 and will end Oct.15 for persons connected with fraternities, sororites, dormitories, cafeterias and cooperative houses either for persons in house maintenance, food handling or house supervision positions.
Dr. Canuteson said the chest X-rays take no time at all and is an ideal way for checking for TB and other lung diseases.
X-rays may be taken from 9 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. Monday through Friday. A second group which includes faculty members and University employees will receive their X-rays between Oct. 17 and 31.
Persons failing to obtain the X-ray during the established times will be required to pay for it
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Cardigan $10.95
Monday, Oct. 10, 1955.
Debaters To Argue At Lawrence High
A debate demonstration will be given by teams from KU and Lawrence High School at 9:45 a.m. Friday in an all-student assembly at Lawrence High.
Kenneth Irby, Fort Scott sophomore, and John Eland, Topeka junior, will meet Alan Coombs and Ray Nichols, LHS seniors. Their topic will be "Resolved, that the federal government should guarantee higher education to qualified high school graduates with grants to colleges and universities."
Victor Capper is the high school debate coach.
Amoebes move by rolling their bodies along a surface.
Advertising Groups Hear Copy Expert
Bill Bryngelson, copy chief of the Bruce B. Brewer Advertising Agency of Kansas City, spoke at a combined meeting of Alpha Delta Sigma and Gamma Alpha Chi, professional advertising fraternities, Friday night in the Student Union.
Girls' Staters To Meet
Mr. Bryngelson discussed the factors that make advertising copy create interest and do a good selling job. He used the Starch readership studies of the Saturday Evening Post advertisements for examples,
A meeting of the Girls' State alumnae to discuss organizing a Stateswomen's Club at the University will be held at 4 p.m. tomorrow in the Sunflower Room of the Student Union.
On Campus with Max Shulman
(Author of "Barefoot Boy with Cheek," etc.)
ADVENTURES IN SOCIAL SCIENCE: NO.1
"The proper study of mankind is man," said Geoffrey Chaucer in his immortal Casey at the Bat, and I couldn't agree more. In these tangled times it is particularly proper to study man—how he lives, how he functions, how he works. Accordingly, this column, normally devoted to slapdash waggery, will from time to time turn a serious eye on the social sciences.
In making these occasional departures, I have the hearty approval of the makers of Philip Morris Cigarettes, whose interest is not only in promoting the pleasure of young Americans by providing them with a gentle cigarette, matchlessly blended of vintage tobaccos, grown with loving care and harvested with tender mercy, then cured with compassionate patience and rolled into firm, tasty cylinders and brought to you in king size or regular, wrapped in fetching packages of lively crimson and pristine white, at prices that wreak no havoc on the most stringent of budgets; but who are equally concerned with broadening the minds and extending the intellectual vistas of every college man and every college woman.
I, for one, am not unmoved by this great-heartedness in the makers of Philip Morris, and though I know it is considered chic these days to disparage one's employer, I shall not. Indeed, I shall cry "Huzzah!" for the makers of Philip Morris. I shall cry "Huzzah!" and "Bon appetit!" and "Stout Fellows!"
But I digress. For our first lesson in social science, let us turn to the study of economics, often called the queen of the social sciences. (Sociology is the king of the social sciences. Advertising is the jack.) Economics breaks down into two broad general classifications: 1) coins; 2) folding money. Before taking up these technical aspects, let us survey briefly the history of economics.
Economics was discovered by the Englishman, Adam Smith. He published his theories in 1778, but everybody giggled so hard that Smith, blushing hotly, gave up the whole thing and went into the cough drop business with his brother.
For long years after that, economics lay neglected while the world busied itself with other things, like the birth of Victor Hugo, the last days of Pompeii, and the Bunny Hug.
Then one day while flying a kite during a thunderstorm, the American Henry George (also called Thorstein Veblen) discovered the law of diminishing returns, and then, boy, the fat was in the fire! Before you could say "knife," the Industrial Revolution was on! Mechanization and steam power resulted in prodigies of production. For example, a Welsh artisan named Dylan Sigafoos before the Industrial Revolution used to make horseshoes by hand at the rate of four a day. After the Industrial Revolution, with the aid of a steam engine, Sigafoos was able to make entire horses.
... Sioalos was able to make entire horses...
And so it went—factories rising from the plains, cities burgeoning around the factories, transport and commerce keeping pace—until today, thanks to economics, we have smog, depressions, and economics textbooks at $5.50. ©Max Shulman, 1955
The makers of Philip Morris, who bring you this column, are no economists, but they do understand supply and demand. You demand gentle smoking pleasure; we supply the cigarette that has it - Philip Morris, of corris!
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