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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN; LAWRENCE; KANSAS
TUESDAY. JANUARY 17, 1950
Little Man On Campus
By Bibler
Ihace, N.Y.—(U.R.)A veteran of 65 years in the glassblowing art is still blowing strong at Cornell university.
"Just don't let an engineer stand you in front of a wind tunnel."
82-Year-Old Cornell Glassblower Still Blowing After 65 Years
henry M. Banta, possibly the country's oldest active glass blower entered the profession when even common window glass was blown by hand.
A vigorous 82, he continues to practice his craft on a part-time basis at the U. S. plant, soil and nutrition laboratory on the campus here.
Recalling his early days in the profession, Mr. Banta tells of German master blowers who were brought to America to train apprentices in the industry.
"These men were so jealous of their art that they used to work in stalls, just like horse stalls, so their neighbors couldn't learn their trade secrets," he said.
The machines of today can reproduce many of the operations of the artisan, but even so they cannot duplicate the precise, intricate work of the skilled blower, according to Mr. Banta.
Mr. Banta became a glass blower in 1881 when he joined the Edison company in Menlo Park, N. J., as a dollar-a-week apprentice. He quickly became proficient in the new skills.
One of the most difficult jobs Mr. Banta undertook for Edison involved the creation of miniature machines less than a quarter of an inch long.
Such bulbs are used today by doctors to locate foreign objects in the windpipe or stomach, but at the time that Mr. Banta helped develop a device employed for probing open wounds and for locating dental cavities.
Mr. Banta joined the Moore Light company in 1912 and was sent abroad to install lighting fixtures in European stores and theaters. He first modern marquee lights at the famous Savoy theater in London.
He relates that no sooner had he finished installing the 178 feet of glass tubing than a group of high-spirited young bloods pranced up to the theater on horseback, crack-ate and snapping their whips in the air. On the way back, the duck delicate tubing and shattered it into thousands of pieces.
Those tubes were about two inches in diameter and filled with carbon dioxide gas, the forerunners of today's neon tubes.
Among Mr. Banta's proudest achievements are the invention of the first practical copper-to-glass seal and the first braided copper
seal, processes which he worked out while he was with Western Electric and which opened the way to many developments in radio and electronics.
Baptists Elect Schultz President
The Roger Williams foundation elected officers for the organization for the spring semester at a meeting Sunday night. The new cabinet will represent more than 500 Baptist students at the University.
Elmer L. Schultz, engineering senior, will be the group's president for the next semester. He succeeds Wilson E. O'Connell, College junior. Others elected are as follows: 1st vice-president, Kenneth E. Peery, 3rd year law student; 2nd vice-president, Eulea E. Hough, graduate student; secretary, Arlene Britch, College junior; the humor Everett L. Davis, college junior; and social chairman O'Connell, Dorothy W. Watson, fine arts sophomore, will be assistant social chairman.
Installation of officers will be held at 5:30 p.m. Sunday, Baptist Student center, 1124 Mississippi street.
Polio Known For Only 100 Years Treatment Long And Expensive
One of our most dreaded diseases has been known to us for only about 100 years. Infantile paralysis was not recognized as a distinct disease until the middle of the past century.
Polio outbreaks occur annually usually in late June through September. The peak of polio cases generally appears in the middle of September in the North, with outbreaks reaching a climax somewhat earlier in the South. Sporadic cases may appear throughout the year.
Indefinitely smaller than bacteria, the polio virus cannot be seen through an ordinary microscope because the wave-length of light is not short enough to "pick up" the virus. The electron microscope has made it possible to take photographs of what is believed to be the polio virus. Only the electronic wave-length is short enough to accomplish this.
The polio virus attacks nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord. When enough of these cells are damaged or destroyed and can no longer send impulses to the muscles they control, paralysis results. Sometimes the nerve cells may be only temporarily "sick" and may recover sufficiently after a period of time to transmit messages once again to the muscle.
It is important that, while the nerve cells are temporarily damaged, the muscle be kept "in condition" through therapeutic treatment. Otherwise, even if the nerve cell does recover, the muscle itself may no longer be able to respond to the impulses.
Adequate hospital and medical care in the case of infantile paralysis usually is beyond the financial resources of the average American family.
Through contributions to the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis in the annual March of Dimes campaign, the American people see to it that no one suffering from this disease need go without proper care for lack of funds. The 1950 March of Dimes campaign will be held from Monday, Jan. 16 through Tuesday, Jan. 31.
The average polio case requires months of expensive hospitalization and services. A respirator case may require 24-hour nursing care and cost as much as $10,000 a year. The average cost for a polio case for the duration of medical treatment today is estimated at $2,000. Expensive care is required for periods running from one to several months for the majority of patients and extending over a period of years in many other cases.
In the past decade, the costs of hospital care a day for each patient have more than doubled. This factor, together with the huge accumulation of cases needing continued care in the past seven years, has added tre-
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In order to fill any next semester vacancies, the Jay Janes will hold a rush tea, on Wednesday, Feb. 8. Each organized house of more than 35 women is entitled to two members. Any woman who lives in a house which does not have two Jay Janes' invited to attend the tea.
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Minneapolis,—(U.P.)—Traffic Judge Thomas L. Bergin said enough is enought. William Marshall, 47, had spent nearly five months in a hospital after an automobile accident. That Belted Driver encountered for careless driving on the grounds that Marshall had been confined long enough
Kansan Calendar of Coming Events
Thursday, Jan. 19 Final examinations begin.
Friday. Jan. 27
Iowa State vs. K.U. basketball game, 7:30 p.m.
Monday, Jan. 30
Monday: June 20 Enrollment begins for the spring semester.
Fire Chief Is Well Known
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