1946
MAY 28.1946
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
PAGE SEVER
Children's Health Doesn't Affect Growth; Evans Contends
"There is no consistent and marked difference in the growth of healthy and ill children," Miss Mary Evans, home economics instructor, stated in a recent article published in the American Journal of Diseases Children.
A daily record kept by the school nurse at the pre-school laboratory enabled the examiners to divide the children studied into five groups. Healthy children, those with mild diseases of the respiratory tract, those with prolonged illnesses, those with measles or chicken pox, and those with infections of both the respiratory and digestive tracts made up the five groups.
In a study made of 93 children who attend the pre-school of the University of Iowa. 64.5% of their fathers were professional workers or held important managerial positions, 28% were merchants or held minor managerial stations, and 7.5% were skilled laborers.
The study attempted to find out if children who have frequent and severe colds during winter months grow less than children who are healthy, and if children who gain the most weight from fall to spring are more healthy than those who gain the least.
The children were measured in the fall and six months later in the spring. Measurements taken were stature, weight, girth of arm, girth of leg, girth of chest, width of hip, and thickness of the skin and subcutaneous tissue.
Group one, of the healthy children, was compared with all four of the other groups. While some slight variances were found in the weight of healthy and ill children, there were no marked differences to indicate that the healthy child grows more rapidly than does the one who sick.
"We must remember," Miss Evans warns, "that these children came from homes of relatively high socioeconomic levels. The children received better than average care of health at all times and special attention while they were ill. They were kept at home until such lingering signs of illness and fatigue and listlessness had disappeared."
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Tale of "Jack the Giant Killer" May Be True
"Jack the Giant Killer" may have been a true story, according to Dr. H. H. Lane of the zoology department who gave a talk on the recent discoveries of prehistoric man this week at the monthly meeting of the Wilson club.
He reported that in the last ten years, traces of several races of giant men, with teeth six times the size of normal teeth, have been discovered in China and Java. These discoveries suggest that some of our legends are perfectly true.
According to Dr. Lane, some of our folklore tales were based on mis-interpretations, such as the story of the Cyclops. The story of the one-eyed giant was based on elephant skulls. The hole in the skull, taken to be the eye of the giant, was merely the nasal socket of the elephant.
Another misinterpretation was made when a fossil was discovered in the Late Renaissance; the leg and knee cap bones of an elephant were misinterpreted to be bones of man. At that time, Adam was assumed to have been about 120 feet high, he said.
Visit Ordnance Works
The Science club and chemistry class of University High school visited the Sunflower Ordnance Works Thursday, George Hiiott, instructor, supervised the group of 23 students.
Postwar Delinquents Need Readjustment, School Head Says
Wichita. (UP)—Youth problems are being greatly increased during the post-war period, Lawrence H. Gardner, superintendent of the Boy's Industrial school, Topeka, told the Kansas Probate Judges' association meeting here Thursday.
"It is the function of the industrial school," he said, "to rehabilitate, re-educate and re-adjust boys emotionally, mentally and physically to fit into their social groups. The boys committed to an industrial school have not been able to adjust and adapt themselves to the rules and regulations of the social group in which they found themselves.
"The school must act as a part of the child welfare program in caring for them, and also as an educational institution." Gardner explained.
The judges' association meeting in Wichita will be held in conjunction with the 64th annual meeting of the Kansas Bar association. The Kansas Judicial association also will hold meetings.
'Lost Plate' Just Bluff
Zanesville, O. (UP)—Police Sgt. Floyd Moore and Patrolman Milton Mick, two "Doubting Thomases" on the Zanesville police force, cast a wary eye on a sign on a licenseless automobile which proclaimed "Lost Plate."
They stopped the driver and discovered he never purchased a tag. Robert Dingey pleaded guilty and was fined $20 and costs.
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