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EDITORIAL
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
THURSDAY, MAY 16, 1940.
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And, remembering, he has come to wonder if he again will know the old days of khaki uniforms, of bands and parades, of bayonet and rifle drill, of "Squads, right!" and mud and death. This man has asked his neighbor, "Which way, America?" His neighbor answers: "I don't know," or "We should have been in it six months ago," or "America will stay out." But he is not sure.
Which Way, America?
The man on the street, the man who in peace times drives a truck, sells insurance policies, and clerks in grocery stores, has begun to ask, "Which way, America?" Within the past nine months; he has seen Europe again take on the bleakness of the no-man's-land of 1914-18; he has seen a war, which in the first few months seemed unreal and remote, progress in channels not unlike those of World War I. Poland, Finland, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, names repeated in each day's newspaper, on every news broadcast, names of countries that had only a geographical location somewhere on the map of a country across the Atlantic.
More recently, however, his attention has been caught and focused on the new names he sees and hears in black ink and on frequent broadcasts: Holland, Belgium, England, France. These names have a special significance to him, for he and his sons can still remember the war days of twenty-two years ago. He has felt his sympathies respond to a people whose culture closely parallels his own.
Although he knows war settles nothing, except, perhaps, the living and the dead, he has seen America stampeded into one war within his memory, and he can find no reassuring answer to his query, "Which way, America?" He wants to know. For in time of war he is the man behind the Springfield and the machine gun, on the artillery caisson, the one who peers through bomb sights.
Students should not confuse the memorial gift of the senior class with the current drive for $750 for Alumni Place. Officials of the big push for contributions consider the senior donation of $700 a separate part of the dorm drive. The goal of student solicitation is still to be reached.
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Dorm Drive Needs Aid
Now, students are being asked to chip in a small but very essential portion of the money needed to complete the bare furnishing of the dorm which alumni gifts have brought thus far. The total sought from the entire student body actually is less than 20 cents apiece.
The size of the gift, however, is all the more tiny when compared to its importance. A great start has been made toward establishing what may be the first of an extensive housing series for the future. The drive cannot now be allowed to fizzle. And its up to University students to insure its success. Have you done your part?
After three years of mounting interest in men's dormitories on the Hill, coincidence this year brought together the climax of long-made plans and an unexpected gift from outside. The combination brought three houses into the picture for 1940-41. Two of the dorms seem definitely set. The third, Alumni Place, has struck a financial snag.
A Railroad Spring
Railroad's iron horses shook themselves and neighed at the forthcoming spring thaw in their economic situation when legislation held up all winter began to move toward passage last week
It is no secret that railroads have long beer putting the figures down on the wrong side of the ledger. The reason for this slump is the competition which has cost railroads many a dollar. Although railroads have consolidated in the past and look forward to still more consolidation, they cannot offset the better service offered by other media at cheaper rates.
Railroad executives argue that they can not meet the competition of airways, waterways and highways, because these have comparatively small maintenance costs. On the other hand, railroads are forced to maintain their rails and rolling stock, as well as purchase them at their own expense. None of the upkeep is subsidized. The argument, then, is for equal treatment in taxation and state and federal aid.
The reconsideration of the two bills which have been cubby-holed since winter are designed to do the job of equalizing aid to the rails as well as taxation.
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UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
OFFICIAL BULLETIN
Vol. 37 Thursday, May 16, 1940 No. 11
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COSMOPOLITAN CLUB: Pineic Friday, May 17
Meet at Union Building at 4:00. For reservations call Emile Weiss, secretary, phone 96, before Thursday evening.
Everybody welcome—Emile Weiss, secretary.
MATH STUDENTS: The Math Club will have its spring picnic Monday at Lake Shawnee. Come to East Strong hall at 4:00 for transportation. Make your reservation in the Math Library on or before Friday.—Marlow Solander, president.
NOTICE TO ALL UNIVERSITY STUDENTS: Dr. E. T. Gibson is at the Watkins Memorial Hospital each Tuesday afternoon for discussion with students on problems of mental hygiene. Appointments may be made through the Watkins Memorial Hospital.-Dr. R. I. Canuteson.
QUILL CLUB. Quill Club will meet this evening at 7:30 in the Pine Room.-Evelyn Longerbeam.
SIGMA XI: The last regular meeting of Sigma Xi will be held this evening at 7:30 in Blake Hall. Mr. Laue Hibbard will speak or on An Upper Plocee Ripple Hibbard will relate to Other Tertiary Faunas:" - W. H. Schoowe.
WESTMINSTER FORUM: Westminster Forum is holding their annual picnic at State Lake, Tonganoxie, this Saturday. There will be two groups leaving Saturday. One group will leave at 2:00 p.m. and the other at 5:00 p.m. A fee of 25 cents will be charged to cover expenses. All are invited—Bob Talmage, president.
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Club Commemorates 50 Years of Bacteriology
Fifty years of instruction in bacteriology at the University of Kansas will be commemorated tonight at a dinner sponsored by the Bacteriology club at the Memorial Union building.
During that time, bacteriology has emerged from a course in the department of botany, entomology and meteorology to a separate department in itself. The first course in bacteriology was taught here in 1890 by Prof. W. C. Stevens, now retired. The late Dr. F. H. Snow, former Chancellor of the University, was chairman of the department.
In 1891 bacteriology was incum of botany and entomology meteorology having been dropped, and in 1897 it was offered as a course in the department of botany.
Part of Medical Curriculum
In 1891 bacteriology was included as a course in the depart-
With the organization of the University's school of medicine in 1899, bacteriology became a required course for medical students in the second semester of their second year, under Dr. Marshall A. Barber. The medical school course at that time was two years.
The department of bacteriology and pathology was organized in 1906, and five years later all courses in bacteriology were placed in the curriculum of the college of liberal arts and sciences. Graduate work in bacteriology also was offered for the first time that year.
Dr. Billings First Chairman
Dr. F. H. Billings became chairman of the department of bacteriology with its establishment as a separate department in 1913. He was succeeded in 1917 by Dr. N. P. Sherwood, the present chairman of the department.
Doctor Barber, who was the first to teach bacteriology to medical students here, perfected a single cell isolation method which attained international recognition. Briefly, the technique consisted of picking a single organism from a culture by means of a micromanipulator. "Streaking" and dilution methods were the only other means of obtaining pure cultures previous to the introduction of Doctor Barber's method.
The first studies on the sanitary
Dr. E. Lee Trecee, associate professor of bacteriology, has attained recognition for his research on the metabolic activities of bacteria and the development of satisfactory media to demonstrate their activities. The results of the work has led to the adoption of several of the media for diagnostic purposes. Studies "Babb Fever"
Dr. Cora Downs, professor of bacteriology, who is now on leave of absence to do research work at the Rockefeller Institute, has contributed work on the immunological and cultural studies of tularensis, or "rabbit fever." Doctor Downs also has made studies of antigenic structures of typhoid and typhoid immunization.
Studies "Rabbit Fever"
Dr. Glenn C. Bond, assistant professor of bacteriology, has done research work mainly of a serological nature, including blood groupings of the lower animals—snakes, turtles and alligators.
Other research work that has been carried on in the department of bacteriology includes biological and immunological studies on amoeba, especially in regard to amoebic dysentery by Lucy Heathman, and survey work on blood groups among Polynesians and American Indians by Clara Nigg.
ROCK CHALK TALK
By Jim Bell
Contrary to what you read in yesterday's paper, there were three (not just one) senior meetings. The other two were at Brick's and the Union Fountain. Betty Boddington, titian-headed vice-president of the class, was so interested in proceedings that she attended the Union get-together. Tsk! Tsk!
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How to become Disgusted with the Whole Thing: Read the texts of the Nine Power Treaty (1925) and the Kellogg-Briand Pact (1928) wherein the now ominous names of Germany and Japan appear righteously fixed to documents which say "war is simply too horrid and we promise never, never to have anything to do with such medieval barbarity. Anyone who does is a nasty word" . . .
It is being rumored that some of the Hill's more prominent professors got together the other night and decided that democracy is doomed unless the United States does something about it. Perhaps that accounts for those pro-allied lectures we've heard of late.
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just a matter of 12 or 15 years ago... when the world lived in the blissful contentment of prosperity and the dogs of hate were kept in the cellar.
Waiting for the dread hand of fate is Phi Gam Bill Sanders who was recently pledged to Alpha Mu Epsilon Beta (Anne Murray Escort Bureau). The organization, composed of two or more members from each of the Hill's
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