FRIDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1948
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
PAGE NINE
If You Can't Kill A Moth, Compromise—Make Him Sick
New York—(UP)—Got a moth in your closet?
All you can't kill the damaged things, said the keeper of 10 thousand moths at a New York testing laboratory.
An you can do is ruin his appetite," said this fellow, who knows more about a moth than another moth does. "Be nasty to him. Maybe he'll go away." ◇
When you take your spring suit out of the closet and the seat falls out of it, you call this man up. He is used to getting telephone calls from people who want to know if he knows anything about moths.
"Sure," he says. "Moths are carnivorous. Female moths lay eggs the year around. You can put three eggs on the head of a pin. The wool devouring larvae can crawl through a crack 4/1000 of an inch wide. What do you want to know about a moth?"
How do you make them go away?
"Well, the Roman naturalist, Pliny, suggested that you lay your clothes on top of a coffin. He probably figured that the moth would be scared of being buried alive and scram. However, few people keep coffins around these days except undertakers.
"In the middle ages, Europeans believed that if you wrapped clothes in a lion's skin they were safe. The French used to put their clothes in a
wooden box and throw in a handful of pine cones."
Did that work?
"Only if the box was air-tight and the clothes were clean when put inside. The same thing applies to paper bags and cedar chests now, Cedar chests, if they are lined with at least $ \frac{3}{4} $ inch of heartwood cedar, tend to discourage the appetite of any visiting moths."
Mothballs and crystals take the edge off the moth's appetite.
The day will come, he said, when "Boconized" woolens may be as well known as "Sanforized" cottones. Boconize is a non-toxic, non-allergic, non-inflammable, colorless, water-proof compound that can be applied to fabric and dry cleaned 25 times without losing its effectiveness.
It is being sold now to textile manufacturers.
When applied to wool fibers, it makes a nibbling moth downright sick at his stomach.
A tour of the biggest gold mine and the biggest copper mine in the United States were high lights of a five-week 4,000 mile, geologic field trip made by 10 seniors and graduate geology students this summer.
Visits To Mines Were Interesting, Say Prof. Dreyer And 10 Geology Students
The students, accompanied by Prof. R. M. Dreyer, chairman of the geology department, went first to Rifle, Colo., where they inspected the oil shale plant operated by the U.S. Bureau of Mines. Next on their itinerary was the Utah Copper company mine at Bingham, Utah. At Butte, Mont., they were guests of the Anaconda Copper company which operates the nation's largest copper mine.
In the rugged area of the Big Belt mountains, north of Helena, Mont., the party established a field camp and mapped and studied the geologic structure in that vicinity.
On their trip home they traveled through Yellowstone park, the oil fields of Wyoming, and the Black Hills of South Dakota. While in South Dakota they studied the recent lava flows at Crater of the Moon national park, and inspected the Homestate gold mine at Lead, largest in the U.S.
Two geology department motor cars were used on the trip. Students who made the trip are: James F. Burford, Wayne C. Granger, William P. Greer, William W. Hambleton, John W. Harbaugh, Raymond K. Mann, Daniel F. Merriam, Dean M. Miller, Edward L. Suagee, and Ellis L. Yochelson.
Bet He Sits Up Nights Thinking Up Promises
Irwinton, Ga.—(UP)—J. R. Sins has local, national and even international support of his candidacy for Wilkinson county commissioner. Of the votes from his 18 living children, one from Wyoming, two from Uks one from Germany and one from Japan-all mail ballots from sons in the service.
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Spokane, Wash.—(UP)—The war interrupted things, but when one swain appeared at the marriage license bureau, he found the license he had taken out in 1943 still awaiting him. The clerk explained it wouldn't be necessary to go through the customary three-day waiting period. "Five years is long enough," the clerk said.
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Moscow—(UP)—A Russian critic has announced that there were too many "Americanized pigs, rabbits, wolves, and ducks" in Soviet animated cartoons and called for the elimination of the Walt Disney influence.
He complained in the newspaper, Evening Moscow, that certain Soviet artists squeezed "Soviet substance into an organically alien form."
Lecturer To Tour State For Bankers
Fred Sharpe, University Extension lecturer will accompany approximately 45 officials of the Kansas Bankers' association, when they tour the state on a series of regional meetings from Oct. 25 to Nov. 3. Mr. Sharpe will speak at each meeting. His subject will be "The Customer and You."
Regional meetings and the times the officials will be there are: Harper, Oct. 25; Syracuse, Oct. 26; Larned, Oct. 27; Olathe, Oct. 28; Pittsburg, Oct. 29; Smith Center, Nov. 3; Goodland, Nov. 4; and Mankato, Nov. 5.
What's He Crying About?
He Got His Wish
It is estimated that Mr. Sharpe will address 2,400 bankers on the 11-day tour. The group will travel in a Pullman cars.
Prof. Pietro Vassena had labored for a decade building a midget submarine in which he hoped to descend to a record depth. A tug was towing it out to sea for a diving test.
Naples — (UP) — An absent minded professor lamented today the collapse of a 10-year dream because he forgot.
Professor Vassena forgot to close the conning tower hatch, and down it went. No one was aboard.
Ames, Iowa—(UP)—An Iowa State college veterinarian has disclosed that T. Royal Rupert 99th, the frustrated bull who turned to science for help in producing T. Royal Rupert 100th, is no longer a timid soul.
If All Goes Well, Royal Rupert The Bull Soon Will Be Back In Circulation Again
M. A. Emmerson said, it may be the first of next year before
But, Dr. M. A. Emmerson said, it is known whether Rupert can convert his new aggressiveness and new pituitary gland into new beef. However, a Des Moines feed company executive said some cows whom Rupper has met lately may 'have the answer sooner than that.'
"Rupert used to be sort of timid." Dr. Emerson said. "But now he's quite aggressive."
He declined to offer an opinion whether Rupert's new behavior is the result of an unprecedented experiment that Dr. Emmerson performed in July. In an effort to end Rupert's sterility, the doctor removed the pituitary gland of another bull and grafted it into the flank of the prize Hereford, for
whom Gov. Roy Turner of Okla-
hmapaid p $38,000 in 1943.
The veterinarian said Rupert stamps and paws in his stall, resents having anyone enter it, and in general carries on "like a cross old bull."
Rupert suffered no ill effects from the operation, but Dr. Emmerson said it would take time to determine whether the surgery helped him to act a bull should. The bull was returned here recently for treatment of an eye condition, not connected with the operation.
However, an attendant, who has been taking care of the bull for Governor Turner, revealed that Rupert has been permitted to court some cows recently. In a week or so, he hopes to know whether these affairs have been more productive than Rupert's similar courtships before his operation.
If they haven't, Rupett's new pitu-tuary will be given more time to make its presence felt.
To Interview Engineers Interested In Sales Work
Two representatives of the Dowell company, Tulsa. Okla., will be here Tuesday, Oct. 12, to interview students majoring in mechanical and petroleum engineering. Students must be interested in sales work.
Seniors who will be graduated in February are particularly desired, company representatives said. Interview schedules may be signed in the office of the dean of the School of Engineering.
Missionary Talks On India
Naomi Light, former, missionary and teacher in India talked at the Missionary Fellowship meeting at noon today in Danforth chapel.
Miss Light was a lecturer for three years at Kinnard college in Lahore, Pakistan.
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Phi Sigma To Meet Monday For Business Session
Phi Sigma, biology society, will meet in 301 Snow hall at noon Monday, Oct. 11. Announcement of committees, organizational business, and election of a treasurer will be taken care of at the meeting, said Arthur O. Chapman, president.
Meetings will be held the first and third Monday of each month. Students interested in research will speak on their work. All members are asked to bring their lunches, Chapman said.
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