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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
TUESDAY, MARCH 28, 1950
Little Man On Campus
By Bibler
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Federal Census Begins Saturday; Will Gather 15 Billion Facts In April
Washington—(U.P.)—Federal census-takers set out Saturday to gather 15 billion facts on how America lives. Between April 1 and May 1 enumerators expect to account for 151 million persons in the 17th dicennial census. They will ask from 23 to 41 questions about each one and the house in which he lives.
Scores of additional questions will be asked of farmers because the census bureau is combining an agricultural census with the population and housing surveys.
For each 1,000 persons counted, one will be hired temporarily to ring doorbells, supervise the job or tabulate the facts. No official population figures will be released before next December. That is when the census bureau is required to report the exact population of each state to the president, who then must send the data to congress for possible action on increasing the number of congressmen.
Once the facts are gathered—it will take two weeks in the cities and a month in the rural areas—workers at Philadelphia and Washington will transfer all of the information from the big questionaires to punched cards. Each card will pass through 32 machines at the rate of 400 per minute. This process will go on for months until all statistics have been compiled.
After that comes the job of translating statistics into volumes of readable information for the public.
The census-takers themselves started their training Monday. They will attend classes all week to learn how to gather the facts wanted by the government. After that, they will be paid on the basis of the numbers of names enumerated. Workers in rural areas will get mileage and more per name than city workers. When it is all over the government will have spent more than 80 million dollars to learn more than it ever knew before about the people who make up America.
Shell Oil Company Interviews Students
Shell Oil company representatives will interview engineering students interested in job placement on Monday, April 3. The company is interested in students who will receive their master's degree in petroleum or mechanical engineering, or their bachelor of science degree in petroleum engineering'
The interview schedule may be signed in 111 Marvin hall today.
Blacksmith Is Tops At Welding Bells
Copenhagen, Denmark — (U,P) — What foreign experts have claimed was impossible has been done by a Danish village blacksmith; he welded broken church-bells.
August Nielsen of the village of Roslev, northern Jutland, has welded about 150 church bells, several of which had been entirely smashed after falling down. He started the job 20 years ago when he was asked to weld one of the bells in the famous medieval cathedral of Ribe, southern Jutland. He solved the problem, although he had never done such a job before.
Since then, Nielsen has developed a fine technique, including the specific degree of heat for the welding and the speed of refrigerating. Nielsen can do the job so skilfully that the repaired bells tune less than one-fifth of a halfnote false.
One of the oldest bells Nielson has welded is dated A.D. 1227. He believes, however, that he has repairied even older bells and all of them tuner better than before repair.
Hoover Against Open Files
Washington—(U.P.)—F.B.I. director J. Edgar Hoover wowed senators today that disclosure of F.B.I. loyalty files might cost the lives of U.S. secret agents, and give "a foreign power" information it wants on American government and industrial leaders.
In one of his rare appearances before congress, the F.B.I. chief told a senate foreign relations subcommittee he is dead set against granting its request for a look at the government's secret loyalty files.
He indicated that he might quit his job before taking such action.
Mr. Hoover joined Att. Gen. J. Howard McGrath in testifying that disclosure of the material would "complete collapsar of the F.B.J.'s investigative system."
Neither official refused flatly, however, to turn over the files to the senate investigators. They made it plain that that decision is up to President Truman who is still considering a reply to the subcommittee's request.
But their stand appeared to set the stage for a blunt and official "no" from the president, now vacationing at Key West, Fla. It seemed certain that Mr. Truman, who has refused similar requests in the past, would back up his top law enforcement officers on this one
"The contents of these files," Mr. Hoover declared, "were never intended to be disclosed and, unless we drastically change and circumscribe our procedures, they should not be disclosed."
In their prepared statements to the subcommittee neither Mr. Hoover nor McGrath went into Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy's charge of widespread communism in the state department. The Wisconsin Republican claims the senate investigation would be a "meaningless" whitewash without disclosure of the files
The F.B.I. chief and Mr. Mc-Grath based their objections to disclosure on the broad grounds of damage to the national interest and that disclosure might "smear" and do "grave injustice" to innocent persons.
As for his hint of quitting, Mr. Hoover said he wants "no part" of any investigative agency which has the power to rule on what part of its files should be made public and what should remain secret.
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New Hormones May Cure Many Destructive Ills
(Editor's Note: Medical scientists are convinced they are on the threshold of a new era as a result of knowledge gained in use of two hormones, cortisone and acth, in the treatment of numerous diseases heretofore classified as incurable.)
New York—(U.P.)-Medical science is on the frontier of a new era from which may come a cure for many of the disabling, crippling and aging diseases of the human being.
The scientists believe that this era may lead to opportunities to give man a longer life, free of destructive ills. For the first time in history the medical scientists have their fingers on knowledge that may lead them to the basic cause of disease.
The knowledge comes from experimental work with two chemical substances. One is known as acth. The other as cortisone. They are powerful hormones, substances that the human body apparently needs in proper amounts to keep the human machine in perfect running order.
The doctors emphasize that neither athn or cortisone is available to the public as yet. The supply is so scarce that it is being used exclusively for research while scientists seek ways to increase production.
Right now both hormones are doing things for medicine that even the most optimistic scientist wouldn't have dared predict a few years ago. Supplies of act are being made from the pituitary glands of hogs. Supplies of cortisone are being produced from ox bile. They are probably the most precious substances in the world.
There is a battle royal going on among research scientists for quantities of the substances to try on human illns. Work is going on in at least 100 laboratories, and trials on human beings are being made in at least 100 hospitals and institutions.
Acth is short for adrenocorticotropicin, a hormone that stimulates the adrenal glands. Cortisone is short for 17-hydroxy-11-dehydrocorticosterone, a hormone manufactured by the adrenal glands.
So far, the hormones have been used in experimental treatment of
more than 50 different types of disease in man. The diseases include cancer, arthritis, rheumatic fever, high blood pressure, asthma, tuberculosis, poliomyelitis, multiple sclerosis, some allergies, alcoholism and mental disturbances.
In some case the results have been "sensational." In others the investigators are not sure. And there have been some failures.
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