UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
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FEBRUARY 19,1946
SOCIALLY SPEAKING
Catherine Osgood, Society Editor
Having recovered from a week of confusion and a big weekend in the City, you should be ready for a steady routine of study—for a day or two at least. But, don't get so eager for an "A" that you can't attend the first Midweek of the semester at the Union tomorrow night. This weekly dance is for the entire student body, so get your dates early or you'll get lost in the stag line!
viewly elected officers of Wright Place are LaVone Craig, president; Esteleen Downs, vice-president; Peggy Robinson and Mary Lou Vansant, social chairmen.
Wright Place Elects
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Pi Beta Phi has announced the engagement of Eugenia Hepworth, daughter of Mrs. R. H. Hepworth, Burlingame, to Glen Berger, son of Mr. and Mrs. H. H. Berger, Burlingame.
Tau Kappa Epsilon has announced the initiation of Donald Beurman, Harold Benitz, Ray Calihan, Homer Evans, Harold Gianakon, Thomas Gregg, Kenneth Miller, Clement Strumillo, and James Webster.
Miss Hepworth, fine arts senior is president of the All-Student Council and Mortar Board.
Berger-Hepworth Engaged
Recently discharged from the army air corps, Berger is enrolled in the College.
Harmon Co-op Entertains
Weekend guests of Harmon Co-op were Margaret Wulf, Wichita, and Sylvia Shell, Hopkins, Mo. Sunday dinner guests were Mary Anderson and Mrs. Leroi Beck, Lawrence; Jean Boardman, Kansas City, Mo.
Campus House Choses Officers
Recently elected officers of Campus house are Doris Kliindt, president; Betty Jeanne Sneary, secretary treasurer; and Nancy Jack, publicity director.
TELL ME,
DOCTOR
How to Stay Out of the Hospital
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By R. I. CANUTESON, M.D.
(Director, University Health Service)
One atomic bomb on an enemy city shocked the world by the magnitude of its destructive power. But the resulting property damage and 130,000 casualties were only a ripple compared to the wave of cripping veineral diseases that sweeps the world every year.
More than a million cases of gonorrhea and syphilis—leading venereal diseases—are reported annually in the United States alone. No knowing how many more go unreported and untreated to serve as a perpetuating reservoir of human misery and death.
Wars propagate venereal diseases. In spite of heroic measures to control these scourges, gonorrhea tops the list of infectious diseases in the armed forces, and syphilis is not far behind. Youths are the most victims of both gonorrhea and syphilis are highest in the ages 15-24 years. This makes it a problem of the college age group—at K.U. as well as elsewhere.
All gonorrhea is contracted by sexual intercourse; only occasional cases of syphilis are acquired otherwise—from a common drinking cup, congenitally and accidently through skin abrasions. Gonorrhea infection makes itself known within a few days of exposure to acute and often very uncomfortable symptoms so that the victim seeks relief. Syphilis more rapidly amylase injury is painless, often passes unnoticed, and the infection may advance to the secondary stage or further before it is recognized.
With early and adequate treatment most cases of both diseases can be cured, but a relatively small percent, representing several thousand cases
Newcomers Welcome At Midweek Dance
New students will be introduced to the University tradition of Mid-wave dance when Charlie Steeper's "Serenaders" play Wednesday in the lounge of the Memorial Union. The dance will be held from 7:30 to 9 pm.
This Midweek dance, the first of the second semester, will be dedicated to the new students.
The Midweek dances are sponsored by Union Activities and are planned by the social committee, the chairmanship of Joan Woodward.
The third largest city in Kansas is Topeka, founded in 1840.
annually, suffer residual disability resulting in sterility, spontaneous abortions, chronic infections, damage to the heart and blood vessels and nervous and mental changes later in life.
Advances in the treatment of both diseases offer hopes for more "cures," but the fantastic claims for quick and sure cures publicized widely in recent years are not well founded in fact. Adequate treatment with the sulfonilimides is effective in gonorrhea; the walking two day treatments have only served to arouse false hopes and develop strains of infection resistant to the "sulfa" drugs.
Penicillin properly administered is now in the ascendancy. But neither of these "miracle" medicines offers quick and easy cures, nor anywhere near the 90 per cent curcs originally reported. The rapid treatment of syphilis with penicillin combined with other medicines cuts down the time element but the final results cannot be appraised for many years.
Emphasis must be shifted from treatment to prevention. Control of the spread of the venereal diseases remains the leading problem. The biggest problem in the control of venereal diseases is extra-marital intercourse. Putting aside the moral issue, stamping out the scourge of venereal diseases is a major social and public health problem that can be solved only by education.
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