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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE. KANSAS
APRIL 23,1946
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Student Newspaper of the UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Member of the Kansas Press Association, National Editorial Association, and the
National Advertising Service, 420 Madison Ave. New York City.
Mail subscription: $3 a semester. $4.50 a year, plus 2% tax (in Lawrence add $1 a semester postage). Published in Lawrence, Kan., every afternoon during the school week except holidays and Sundays, University holidays and examination periods. Entered as second class on Sept. 17, 1910, at the Post Office at Lawrence, Kan. under act of March 3, 1879.
Cancer And The Atom
Today, approximately 17 million Americans are destined to die of cancer unless we can do something to prevent it. Between Pearl Harbor and V-J day cancer killed twice as many persons as were lost on the battlefields.
Those facts should make us very concerned about what can be done to conquer this disease. The funds collected in this drive are to be used for education of the public about cancer so that cases may be detected in their early stage; for the establishment of more cancer clinics; and for research directed at eventual control of cancer. Sixty per cent of the funds contributed will be devoted to local use and the other forty per cent will be used by the national society for research.
One of the most effective means of treating cancer is by the use of radium. But this treatment is extremely costly since radium is worth approximately $25,000 a gram. As a result, many victims deprive themselves of this treatment until it is too late and many hospitals are unable to equip themselves for cancer treatment.
In the process of atomic bomb research radioactive by-products are produced. These products can be effectively used as radium is today for cancer treatment. Dr. David Hume of the department of chemistry, who worked on atomic research at Oak Ridge, Tenn., estimates that more of this by-product has already been produced than our total supply of radium has ever been or will ever be.
In dealing with an enemy as strong as cancer we must use every means at our disposal to bring us nearer success. Now we are passing up one method of combating cancer. There is now a source of treatment that it is expected would cut the present radium treatment cost to one-tenth what it is today.
However, the tragic part is that under the exigencies of war there was little effort to preserve it or devote it to proper use and now it is almost irretrievably lost. But at least we now kniw what can be done.
Of course, not all cancer cases can be given the radioactive treatment. But with the menace what it is today, any method of treatment should be exploited to its limit.
This is one more reason why it is highly important that we devise a proper program of atomic energy control soon so that research and developments for the good of mankind will not be throttled.
OFFICIAL BULLETIN
April 23,1946
Notices must be typewritten and in
music in the Mail Office, office,
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9:30 a.m. on day of publication.
No phone messages accepted.
Tau Sigma will meet tonight in two groups, the first at 7:20 and the second group at 8 p.m.
"El Ateneo" Spanish club will meet in Room 113 of Frank Strong hall at 4:30 tomorrow.
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All members of Liberty Memorial High school 1941 senior class may make reservations for a five-year reunion at 5 p.m. Friday in Clinton Park by calling 2793-J or writing Mrs. Mary Lou Penny, 643 Tennessee.
Any Independent woman who wishes to be a candidate for A.S.C. or for a class office must have a petition circulated for her with 25 signers. Petitions are due tomorrow at Miller Hall.
Next meeting of K.U. Dames will be in Kansas room of the Union at 7:30 p.m., May 1.
Physical Therapy banquet at 6:45 p.m. tomorrow, in Kansas room of the Union.
All-Student Council will not meet tonight.
Le Cercle Francais will meet at 4:30 p.m. tomorrow in Room 103. Frank Strong hall.
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Second 'Your Government' Issued by University
The second issue of "Your Government," a bulletin of the University Bureau of Government Research, has been published, Ethan P. Allen, director of the bureau, said today.
The bulletin summarizes laws and practices concerning the dates of elections and primaries in all cities in Kansas, officers elected, and their terms of office. Each issue is planned to cover a timely topic concerning government organization, functions, operation, and problems, Dr. Allen said.
AT THE HOSPITAL
Admitted during Easter
John Danneberg, 1541 Tennessee.
Florence Streator, 1530 Kentucky.
Donald Brurman, Willistonown.
Admitted during Easter
Robert Moore, 1535 New Hampshire.
K.U. Education Heads To Speak in Emporia
Kenneth Adams, 1321 Tennessee.
Kenneth Davis, 1908 Vermonth.
Herschell Zirger, PT 8.
Dismissed during Easter Mrs. Elmo Maiden, 1014 Mississippi.
Dean George Baxter Smith, School of Education, and Miss Ruth Kenney, secretary of the correspondence study bureau, will discuss "The Young Adult Education Problem" at the annual meeting of the Kansas Adult Education association in Emporia, Thursday and Friday.
LaVerla Harris, 1420 Ohio.
Charles Elliott, 1409 Tennessee.
Ray Ann Robison, Foster.
Lucy Hunter, Watkins.
Eldon Frye, 314 West 14th.
Koli Amin, Battenfeld.
Mathematics Professor Given
Guggenhein Fellowship Award
Professor Price is one of 60 former servicemen to receive the award for post-service fellowships. Dr. Price, who has been at the University since 1937, received his doctor of philosophy degree from Harvard.
Dr. G. B. Price, professor of mathematics has been given a Guggenheim Fellowship award for his research project "The Theory of Functions of Several Real Variables."
He is the third University faculty member to receive a Guggenheim fellowship. E. B. Stouffer, dean of the Graduate school, and Dinsmore Alter, former astronomy professor here, have also received the awards.
Dr. R. A. Schwegler, professor emeritus of education, will speak at a dinner meeting the first day.
The Anapolis naval academy opened in 1845.
WANT ADS
NOTICE-- Finder of a green transparent parent showing yellow ringlets lifetime Parker pen which clip does not hug the pen. Please return it to the Daily Kansan office for it was a special gift. -24-
Will trade apartment in Kansas City, Mo., for apartment in Lawrence between June 1 and 15. Write: R. C. Fairchild, 115 W. 39th, Apt. 201, Kansas City, Mo. -26-LOST—Woman's ring with black rectangle stone and gold crest. Call Peggy Maloney at 295. Reward. -23-LOST—Navy blue zipper purse with very important articles inside. Finder may keep money but please return articles and purse to the Daily Kansan office. -23-
HELP WANTED—For summer, 2 waiters-wages plus room, board. Tips are good! Mo. Yacht Club, Lake Latawana. Phone Lone Jack 317. -6-STOP at the Courthouse Lunch for good food. Open from 5:30 a.m. to 12:30 a.m. Across from the courthouse.
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ALL-COMMUNITY FUN FEST Wednesday, April 24 Lawrence Community Building
Music By
THE SERENADERS, L.M.H.S. Dance Band
Dancing 8 to 11 Floor Show 9:30 to 10 Prizes for Bridge and Bingo Tickets 50c Sponsored by the American Association of University Women
Y.M.C.A. Picnic Yesterday
A picnic for Latin American students was held yesterday by the Y.M.C.A. at Henley House. South American games were played and songs were sung. The Latin American Club which will meet May 15 was organized. Music, dances, and movies of Costa Rica will be shown.
El Ateneo Tomorrow
"El Ateneo" will meet tomorrow at 4:30 p.m. in 113 Frank Strong hall. "The Burning of Judas," a traditional Easter Sunday celebration in Latin-American countries, will be carried out by Spanish club members. This is the first time such a program has been presented at K.U.
Former Student Receives Army Commendation Ribbon
Lt. Alan F. Asher received the army commendation ribbon today in connection with inactivation of the Seventh U.S. Army in Heidelberg Germany.
Lt. Asher served as platoon leader and assistant regimental adjutant with the 78th "lightning" division from the time it breached the Siegried line until V-E day and was with his regiment when it became the first Infantry unit to cross the Rhine at Remagen.
He received his bachelor of arts degree in 1938 and a doctor of laws degree in 1941 at the University.
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