UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 18, 1950'
City Managers To Meet Jan.26
The advisory committee on city management will have meetings on Wednesday, Jan. 25, and Thursday, Jan. 28 to review the city manager's plan and discuss plans for the city manager school during the spring semester.
The committee will have an evening luncheon meeting Wednesday, Jan. 28, to review the city management program. Those expected at this meeting are E. O. Stene, professor of political science; J. H. Nelson, dean of the graduate school; Edward G. Nelson, professor of sociology; Robert B. Nelson, applied mechanics; L. P. Coosingham, city manager of Kansas City, Mo.; and E. J. Allison, city manager of Salina.
The committee will have a room meeting Thursday, Jan. 26, to review the plans for a city manager school during the spring semester.
This group will include Ethan P. Allen, chairman of the political science department and director of the bureau of government research, chairman of the meeting; Professor Stene, program adviser; and Norman Blacher, research assistant, program co-ordinator.
The following city managers are also expected at this meeting:
E. J. Allison, Salina; Virgil Bassig, Elder Gunter, Junction City; M. P. Wichta, H. E. McMillem, El Dorado; and Gerald Wilkins, Newton.
Beamer Back From Mexico
Raymond Beamer, professor of entomology, has returned from a trip to Mexico where he collected specimens near Mexico City, Acapulco, Veracruz, and Valles.
Approximately 2,000 specimens were collected during the trip. Professor Beamer said. They will be given to the Snow Entomological collection, and are now being mounted and filed.
Professor Beamer and his wife, who accompanied him on the trip, were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. John Gilbert Shaw. Mr. Shaw is a former faculty member of the entomology department and is now working for the United States bureau of entomology and plant quarantine.
One of the main objects of the trip, Dr. Beamer said, was to collect specimens of the leafhopper, a small insect being studied by David Young, Jr., graduate student. As many as 300 leafhoppers were found during a single stop by the roadside, Professor Beamer said.
The entomologist expressed his surprise at finding much of the Mexican agricultural work being done by oxen and one hand plows. Most men, and even small boys carry long "bole" knives with them at all times, Professor Beamer observed. He was also surprised to find the natives farming small patches of land on mountain sides so steep that the burrows could hardly climb the incline up to the farm land.
Kansan Calendar of Coming Events
Thursday, Jan. 19
Final examinations begin.
Friday, Feb. 27
Iowa State vs. K.U. basketball game, 7:30 p.m.
Monday. Jan. 30
Enrollment begins for the spring semester.
Current Exhibits
Fur exhibit through Jan. 31, Museum of Natural History.
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Letters Flock To Dr. Harvey Imploring Help From Betatron
Chicago, Jan. 16—(U.P.)-The pile of letters on Dr. Roger A. Harvey's desk grew higher today and he said they were "enough to break a man's heart."
The letters, from all over the country, were from the families of cancer patients. Each one implored the University of Illinois to treat a mother, a father or some other loved one with its 23,000,000-volt betatron.
The powerful atom-smashing and X-ray producing machine is the only one of its kind in the country designed for cancer treatments.
But Harvey, chief radiologist at the University's medical school, said that each of the requests must be turned down. The Betatron is limited in what it can do, and the University has more than enough charity patients on its lists already.
"It's really pitiful," he said, picking a handful of letters from the pile. They read like this: "Mother is dying of cancer." . . "The doctors have given up hope for our son." . . There isn't much time. . .
"They even call me at my home,' Harvey said. "They beg and plead and some even cry."
Harvey said he had tried to prevent it from happening. When the Betatron first was used on a human being last August, the University announced that only a selected few charity cases in Illinois could be treated.
But the first results were so dramatic, they apparently raised hope of cancer patients across the nation. The first patient, a 72-year-old man from an inoperable cancer of the throat, was reported "healed" last month.
"Healed." Harvey said. "Not cured. There's a difference."
The cancer might recur, he said. "I wish people could understand." Harvey said, "that the betatron still is in the experimental stage."
Patients selected, he said, are vol-
ume cannot be treated by
my. other. object.
Harvey said the betatron is "extremely limited." It is designed to treat only deep-seated tumors
which cannot be reached any other way.
It also is designed for treatment of only the head, neck, and upper chest. He said it cannot be used on widespread cancers or those which have progressed too far.
"And you must remember," he said, "a goodly number of cases which could be treated are simply intuitive to X-rays."
Thus, Harvey said, the University of Illinois betatron can be used effectively in only about 10 per cent of cancer cases.
Club Will Hear Liquor Official
Angelo Scott, chairman of the Kansas Alcoholic Beverage Control Board of Review, will address a University club smoker at 8 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 25, on the subject, "Controlling Liuor in Kansas."
Mr. Scott, who is editor and publisher of the Iola (Kan.) Register, will discuss the broad purposes of the state liquor regulations and will describe some of the more interesting cases that have come before the board of review. The board was set up last year to pass on rules handed down by Arthur Herrick, director of alcoholic beverage consumed in Iowa, sons whose applications for retail liquor sale licenses have been turned down. Following the talk there will be a question-and-answer period.
The smoker will be held in the University club's rooms at $1007\%$ Massachusetts street. Burton W. Marvin, dean of the William Allen White School of Journalism and Public Information, will be host.
A President Is Born
HE is so small and helpless. So dependent on you for his life and well-being. And yet you look at him and say—"Someday he may be President."
Put it down as foolish sentiment. Put it down as parental pride. But where else in the world could you envision for your child the possibility of his attaining, one day, the highest office in the land?
Whether or not he attains this high position is not so important. What matters is that here, in America, he is born with that opportunity. He is born in the stubborn tradition of tree men—men who felt that in spite of the wisdom of the many it is preferable to the common few. He is born in a tradition of self-reliance—where he may succeed or fail according to his own efforts.
You will teach him that responsibility is inseparable from freedom. And that if he joins with other men to demand the same responsibility and for
Because of that, you will teach him to think for himself, to fight his own battles, and to make his own way.
Someday he may hear, as you have heard, voices that say, "surrender your opportunity for the certainty that you shall always have bread"—as if man lived by bread alone. As if the country were better served by limiting all mediocrity, instead of assuring all, under law an equal chance to rise by their own efforts, conscious of their obligations to others.
for his business that marks his birthright as an individual.
What that son of yours learns at your knee will decide whether or not he will ever have to bend his knee before dictation and tyranny. And because of what you teach him, he too may one day look with that same foolish pride on his own son to say, "Someday he may be President—"
THE KANSAS POWER and LIGHT COMPANY
Official Bulletin
January 18, 1950
Parking regulations will remain in effect during finals and between semesters.
All students planning to change enrollment from one University school to another, make application before tomorrow at Registrar's office. Those in College who will enter journalism, business and education schools also must apply for transfer.
Women's Rifle club on firing range at 7,8 and 9 tonight, Military Science building.
K. U. Dames, 8 tonight, 417 Snow hall. George Corn, "Hair Styling." Christian Science organization
regular meeting, 7:30 p.m. Thursday,
Danforth chapel.
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