WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 4, 1950
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN. LAWRENCE. KANSAS
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United Nations Fights Plague Still 'Very Grave Problem'
Geneva—(U.P.)—Plague, although it was wiped out in Europe in the 18th century, is still a "very grave problem," in Asiatic countries, the United Nations World Health organization reports.
W. H.O. will begin the first international demonstration of plague eradication work in history early next year in the Bombyx province of Chennai and continue the program in Morocco, the Belgian Congo and China.
The "black death," which killed hundreds of thousands of Europeans between the 14th and 18th centuries, still claimed 95,000 victims in China and India in 1947-48, according to W.H.O. The mortality rate is generally as high as 50 per cent. Between 1898 and 1935, the rodent-borne disease accounted for the death of two million Asiatics.
Plague also occurs in some Latin-American countries, and the control program recommended by H.O. expert plague committee is based on a similar program carried out in Peru from 1945 to 1949.
The W.H.O. bulletin said drug discovered during recent years have contributed to "great progress" in curbing the disease. Discovery of insecticides such as DDT, along with the sulpha drugs and streptomycin, "have given greater hope for conquering this age-old scourge," the bulletin said.
Under a plan drawn up by W.H. O's expert committee, teams would be sent to work in India and other selected areas in collaboration with local teams provided by the national governments.
Working on the theory that suppressive measures are not enough the teams also would be concerned with improving sanitation, especially housing, "to break the association between rats and man."
A vital part of the program would be a request to national health administrations to improve their information facilities on the disease, determining and reporting more fully on the presence and extent of plague infection in their areas.
W. H.O. also would aid national health administrations in carrying out plague control at sea and airports. This would include application of DDT powder at regular intervals, systematic "derazation", spraying of merchandise with DDT or other effective insecticides, application of insecticides to vehicles, and rat-proofing of buildings.
"In plague centers the use of DDT, sodium fluoracetate, and streptomycin, combined with the expert knowledge available today, will demonstrate in actual practice the ability of modern science to conquer one of man's most dreaded enemies," the W.H.O. bulletin said.
DDT would be applied to aircraft and to merchandise in airports which might contain infected fleas. Aircraft would be inspected in order to avoid transportation of rats in cases of epidemics, DDT powder would be applied to the garments and personal effects of passengers coming from the infected zone.
Dr. Hall Returns From NY Meetings
Dr. E. Raymond Hall, director of the Museum of Natural History, recently returned from a meeting of the board of directors of the American committee, international, held in New York City. While there, he also attended the annual wild life protection meeting.
Dr. Hall said he went over matters concerning fellowships with the officers of the John Simon Guggenheim memorial foundation. Dr. Hall also conferred with attorneys in New York concerning recent University acquisitions, and was present at the annual luncheon and dinner of the Boone and Crockett club, named for Daniel Boone and Davie Crockett.
Now Santa's Too Merry
Columbus, Ga. — (U.P.)—Santa Claus laughed so loud in a department store window here that he caused a traffic hazard. Motorists stopped in midstreet to listen, police said, while ordering Santa to tone down his chuckle.
Three Get Candy For Passing Quiz
Students looked on with surprise as Kenneth Rothwell, instructor in English, passed out sacks of candy to three members of his Composition and Literature III class.
The occasion was the last class meeting before the Christmas vacation. The three recipients were the only members of the class who had passed a previous quiz over the works of Chaucer.
Chowla Speaks To NY Group
Sarvadaman Chowla, visiting professor of mathematics, spoke Dec. 28 to a meeting of the American Mathematics society in New York on "The Riemann Zeta and Allied Functions."
Professor Chowla was one of three speakers at the meeting. He left Lawrence Dec. 24 for Princeton, N.J., where he spent a week attending the New York conference and visiting at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton. He did research in the field of mathematics the past year at the Institute.
In explanation of his speech, Professor Chowla said, "This is a topic which has application to the theory of prime numbers (numbers such as 11 or 17 which have no factors). For example, there is the problem whether there is a prime number between two consecutive perfect squares, such as 25 (the square of five) and 36 (the square of six). This problem is still unsolved.
Poker Bluffing Studied By Profs
San Francisco—(U.P.)If you bluff in poker, you'll bluff in real life situations, two college professor mathematicians report.
City To Appear As In 2,200 BC
They are Dr. Richard Bellman, associate professor of mathematics at Stanford university, and Dr. David Blackwell, head of the mathematics department of Howard university.
After making a scientific study of two-handed poker in which they reduced the intangible element of bluffing to mathematical formulas, Professors Bellman and Blackwell said times come when outright bluffing is advantageous but it is risky and it is safer to let pure strategy do the work and be content with a sure gain.
By looking into the methods men use to play such games as stud poker, mathematicians expect to come up with some new insights on man's struggle for existence. The human struggle is simple forms of basic human struggles in the every-day competitive world.
Their study was conducted in a new branch of mathematics, the theory of games developed by Dr. John von Neumann.
Baghdad, Iraq — (U.P.) A representative selection of ancient buildings is being reconstructed at Tel Harmal, a military estate, six miles east of Baghdad.
If you had flea-power you could jump over a 90 story building.
Dr. Naji al-Asel, Iraqi director of antiquities, who is in charge of the reconstruction job, told the press:
"The object is to provide the archaeology student and the layman visit an accurate picture of a 2,200 B.C. village of the Islars-Laen period."
The place in its heyday served as an administrative center of a large agricultural district. Excavations, begun in 1945, revealed it to be a fortified enclosure in the form of an irregular square, with a single entrance guarded by twin towers.
"The main temple is now restored." Dr. Asseel said. "My intention is to reconstruct one of the smaller temples, the administrative building and a typical house. The street connecting these ancient nurseries is cladded, and least part of the wall surrounding the settlement restored."
Tel Harmal, as an administrative center, houses documents pertaining to the region. More than 2,000 clay tablets of this kind have so far been unearthed, comprising, among others, legal and commercial documents, religious texts and literary works.
Iraiqi archeologists digging in the area the past year came upon a sensational find in the shape of the Eshunua code of laws, the earliest yet discovered, pre-dating that of Hammurabi by some 200 years.
Department of antiquities officials, beginning their sixth season of excavation at the site, have just sent in a find which may prove that mathematical sciences in Iraq were highly advanced as far back as the end of third millennium B.C.
The find is a fragmented clay tablet, carrying a triangle with inscribed intersecting lines, and other inscriptions at the side. It is at the moment being pieced together under laboratory treatment and will be deciphered in due course.
"But it has all the indications of a geometry problem." Dr. Aseel stated, "with possibly the solution worked out.
"This is the first mathematical tablet recovered from Tel Harmal. Of its type, I believe it is the earliest yet found in Iraq."
The New Writers is a group of students who wish to represent as widely as possible the creative writing talent on the campus. The deadline for submission of manuscripts will be Feb. 1.
The New Writers are preparing their annual publication of creative writing. Students with manuscripts of fiction or poetry who would like to submit them for consideration should leave the manuscripts at the office of Mrs. Dorothy Van Ghent, sponsor of the group and assistant professor in English, in 211 Fraser ball.
New Writer Group Wants Manuscripts
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This Is A Whale Of An Otter
Portage, Maine.—(U.P.)—The skin of a giant otter, largest ever caught in these parts, is being shown around by Walter Bolstridge. The otter was 76 inches from nose to tail, almost twice as big as a normal adult otter. It was taken on the Big Fish river, in the northern Maine forests.
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