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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN. LAWRENCE. KANSAS
MONDAY, JANUARY 17, 1943
Ever Know A Millionaire? Well, Then Meet Mr. Elliot
Bv DOUGLAS JENNINGS
White-haired, blue-eyed, genial old Sam Elliott is an institution at K.U and in Lawrence. He is one of those men who gets a kick out of living.
Mr. Elliott's duties at the University include buying the food for the men at the Spooner-Thayer dorm, preparing a snack for them each night, straightening up nine rooms in Fraser hall, and taking care of Danforth chalre. In his leisure time he lec.*
tures occasionally to English classes on early Kansas history, makes a bulletin board now and then for anyone who needs one, and gives interviews to magazines and newspapers.
Mr. Elliott is a philosopher, too, though he may not realize it. But he is a little different from most philosophers because he turns his kind words into kind actions. He believes "if you see something that needs to be done and can do it, the pay is incidental. It makes life exciting. I live an exciting life."
He ventures into Lawrence often enough to be an elder and treasurer of the Congregational church and one of the favorite customers of many of the grocery stores. He carried mail in Lawrence for 46 years establishing a state record for length of service.
He laughed as he said, "My greatest asset is being able to fool the public." He referred to newspaper and magazine articles about him in which he was described as "looking like a philosopher."
In his everyday activities, Mr. Elliott's engaging lightness predominates. Sometimes people mistake Mr. Elliott's friendly interest and resent it. His comment then is, "Do you have spells like this often?" Most of them, however, know and like him too well to resent him.
He has many memories, some of them about K.U. He remembers when the current University was one building, Fraser, built in 1870, the year he was born. North College was first but was later torn down. Mr. Elliott recalled that Templin was built at almost the same time as Fraser to become the second building of the University. It was 13 years before the next building, the Journalism building, was constructed.
He has other memories. He looks back on including raising a family of six children. He enjoys talking of them and his grandchildren, and now his great-grandchildren.
Mr. Elliott spoke of a wealthy man, a millionaire. As he tailed an English professor, late returning home, paused to shake his hand.
Two students called, "Hello Sam," as they missed.
Mr. Elliott hesitated a minute, then continued, "I feel sorry for the rich man, because I've got everything he's got and none of the problems. You see, I'm a millionaire too."
If a man's friends, his happiness,
his memories, and his enjoyment of
life count, Sum Elliot is a million-
aire indeed.
Official Bulletin
Jan. 17, 1949
Inter-Down meeting. 5 today, Sterling hall.
Mathematical colloculum of department of mathematics, 5 today, 203 Frank Strong. Dr. I. N. Herstein, "Wedderburn Structure Theorem."
All students who wish to take graduate record examination on Feb. 7 and 8 must register at Guidance bureau before noon Thursday.
Registrations of all pre-medical students who wish to take medical college admission test on Feb. 7 must reach Educational Testing service, P.O. Box 592, Princeton, N.J. by Monday, Jan. 24. Information obtainable at School of Medicine office of guidance bureau.
Special W.Y.C.W. a cabinet meeting 4 p.m. Friday, Henley, Important.
University Daily Kansan
Mail subscription: $3 a semester, $4.50 a year, (in Lawrence add $1 a semester postage). Published in Lawrence, Kansas; at the University at Kansas; university severity年次 except Saturdays and Sundays. University holidays and examination periods. Entered as second class Sept. 17, 2016, at the Post Office at Lawrence, Kansas, under act of March 3, 1879.
$500,000 Year Profit From Boston Vehicular Tunnel
Boston — (UP)—The East Boston vehicular tunnel, which runs under Boston harbor to link North Shore communities to downtown Boston, operated at a profit of about $500,-000 in 1948. However, the city plans no cut in the 20-cent toll charge because a five-cent reduction would slice the yield to the break-even point.
Helen K. Moore, Harry Levinson,
and Verlyn L. Norris, graduate students in clinical psychology, are authors of a booklet recently published by the Kansas State Board of Health.
Graduate Students Write On Mental Institutions
Entitled "A Study in Neglect," it is a report of a survey made of the conditions existing in the Kansas mental institutions.
Forewards in the booklet were written by Eriand Carlsson, director of the division of institutional management, and F. C. Beelman, executive officer of the board of health. Both men agree that the booklet is a carefully prepared report of the conditions as they are, and encourage consideration of the contents.
The commonwealth of Massachusetts is a popular recreation area with many fine beaches dotting the shores of its more than 1,000 miles of shore line.
Smoking Doesn't Cause Lip Cancer; Researchers' Study Covers 15 Years
New York-(UP)-Two Brooklyn physicians have concluded that smoking is not a cause of lip cancer.
They base their belief on a study of 112 cases of cancer of the lower lip, admitted for treatment at the Brooklyn Cancer Institute. The study, according to Drs. William E. Howes and Joseph Rosensein, covered a 15-year period from 1930 to 1944. $ \textcircled{c} $
Only two of the 112 patients were women, they said.
Reporting to the American Journal of Roentgenology and Radium Therapy, the doctors said that "fully 90 per cent of the men had smoked a pipe, cigars or cigarettes through many years."
"Neither of the two women patients had used tobacco in any form," they said. "Although smoking has increased among women fully 1,000 per cent in the last generation, there has been no corresponding increase in the incidence of lip cancer.
The doctors said that in the series of patients they studied, the men usually were of the unskilled laboring class.
"As a rule," they said, "they have worked outdoors during most of their adult life. Their faces and lips have been exposed to sun, wind, sleet and cold. Chapping as a result of exposure is a common occurrence. The theoretically, this repeat- chapping with resultant attempt to repair sets up an ideal situation purported to favor the origin of cancer."
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