PAGE SIX UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1950 The Editorial Page- Mice And Men Recently cigarette smokers were chilled to the bone by a frightening article in Reader's Digest. Smokers began to "cut down" and take their pulse at frequent intervals just to see if they were still in reasonably good health. Now they may be calmed considerably by the results of a study conducted by the U.S. Public Health service. Cigarettes, according to this survey, are not the cause of lung cancer; they do not tend to shorten life; nor do they cause cancer in any other parts of the smoking tract. The Public Health service induced mice to take up smoking and made the little creatures smoke for half their normal lifetime. For four hours daily, except Sunday, the mice were exposed to automatic cigarette machines which closely simulated the real thing. The poor mice coughed and puffed, but the smoking mice showed no more cancerous tendencies than the non-smoking control group. Then the mice were subjected to an even more diabolical test. Some were repeatedly smeared with tobacco tar, supposedly a cancer-causing agent. Some had to drink the tar, and still others were shot full of it. Yet there was no more cancer in this group than in the control group. Dr. W. C. Hueper, chief of the institute's cancer-studies section, said, "The smoking habit may play a role in the production of human cancer, but the available evidence is in no way conclusive." Other results of the mice-as-men tests showed that digestion may be disrupted or hindered by smoking. The smoking may not cause stomach ulcers, for example, but it is harmful to an already active ulcer. The length of life of the mice was not shortened by smoking. The mice who smoked could expect to romp just as gaily, and for just as long, as the non-smoking mice. Smoking may or may not affect the heart, according to the study, but it depends upon what kind of heart trouble is under consideration. Blood pressure rises temporarily from smoking, but in the mice at least, the rise was temporary and gave no indication of being permanent. Lastly, the test seemed to indicate that the reproductive processes of mice were not impaired. Smoking mice were just as prolific as the non-smoking variety. The institute's tests may calm many smokers, but it all rests on how much faith a smoker puts in the resemblance of mice to men. —W.F.S. Colorado's Problem How does Colorado stand on the question of discrimination in Big Seven athletic circles? This question was answered on request by the Silver and Gold in a special statement of policy from President Robert L. Stearns yesterday. The statement reads, in part: "The University administration did considerable soul-searching at the time we entered the Big Seven, because we knew that the states of Oklahoma and Missouri have race segregation laws. We knew that under the laws of those states it would be difficult if not impossible to play colored members of our varsity teams in those states. We would, of course, be able to use any eligible player here or at other conference schools." It is most unfortunate that state laws can be so interpreted as to prohibit certain players from athletic competition because of the color of their skin. It is also unfortunate that visiting teams must leave Negro players at home when appearing in Missouri and Oklahoma. But it seems fortunate that Colorado has entered the Big Seven conference and, in cooperation with administrative officials of the schools concerned, has started the ball rolling toward non-restrictive competition in athletics. Colorado's choice to enter the Big Seven involved closeting an ideal to preserve it. By working collectively, all schools in the conference hope eventually to eliminate discriminatory practices in athletics. Only through the collective evolutionary approach will the ideal ever unveiled for the entire conference to enjoy. Colorado's withdrawal or refusal to play games in Oklahoma and Missouri because of state segregation laws would be selfish, depriving Colorado and the entire conference of the benefits of equality of participation in athletics. So we may leave Negro athletes at home, and we may lose games because of it. But we will be looking forward to an athletic triumph greater than ever before—the Big Seven triumph over discrimination, in which Colorado will have played a vanguard role. —The Silver and Gold, Colorado U. student newspaper. 'Small Things' When asked to identify four persons of whom he had never heard, a student wrote on his current events quiz, "They're all Communists." The student is being approached by the state department. "Frosty" Cox resigned as Colorado's basketball coach, and Rodney Nipap, Student Union junior, suggests that he might have been getting the "cold" shoulder. 11 Honored In Medicine The election of two juniors and nine seniors in the University of Kansas school of medicine to membership in Alpha Omega Alpha, honorary medical society, was announced today by Dean Franklin D. Murphy. The juniors honored are Herman Heisterman and Melvin Kettner. Elected as juniors a year ago and now seniors are Alexander Mitchell and Robert Fairchild. Puntenney is doing an externship this quarter in Watkins Memorial hospital, where he is working under the direction of Dr. Ralph I. Canuteon, director of the student health service. The nine seniors attaining membership are Paul R. Carpenter, Thomas W. Hogan, J. D. Kabler, Dewey Nemec, Rovert Puntenny, Barbara Russell, Alain Kinder Roth, Barbara Russell, and Eugene Schwartz. University Daily Hansan News Room K.U.251 Adv. 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