PAGE SIX EDITORIAL UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS TUESDAY, APRIL 9, 1940 The Kansan Comments-- EDITORIALS ★ LETTERS ★ PATTER So when the weather-man turns thumbs-up the populace can expect good weather—about nine times out of ten. That one time, unfortunately, will probably come during a picnic. Rare is the case of the authentic weather prophet who first knows of the thundershower when he ruins his new Panama. This nation's weather-map-marker isn't playing kindergarten games. His scientific product can be accepted as approximating the real truth. When he makes mistakes, it's admitting that some weather can't be prophesied. But such weather never lasts long nor covers much territory. With weather reports saying "Fair and warmer," after a picnic-soaking, new-hat-soaking, and shoe-muddying week-end, students merely shrug their shoulders. That the sky might turn inside out last Saturday this region's quota of Uncle Sam's 2100 Weather Bureau employees had made plain. And that same quota of thermometer-peerers have left student and citizen gripers unhappily aware that there is no longer anyone or anything to blame for the weather—except Kansas, and maybe Fate. Certain Weather Science Marches On 1940's weather forecaster has come out of his Mickey Mouse hole almost as mighty a figure as Leo the Lion. With modern forecasting equipment in the third dimension, he can put forth a 75 to 90 percent airtight prophecy any day of the week and stride into the class of scientists—leaving the quack strata forever behind him. He has discarded the old issue dodgers of "probably showers" and "generally unsettled" for the blunt "showers" or "unsettled." ★ ★ ★ A new "magic bullet," resulting from the laboratory marriage between sulfanilamide and one-half of the molecule of vitamin B-1, the nerve vitamin, has led scientists to believe that they now have an effective weapon against a host of deadly bacterial infections for which no specific agent existed before. The drug, sulfathiazole, described recently before the annual congress of the American College of Physicians, is expected to be made available soon for general medical use by the Federal Food and Drug Administration. Some 1,600 patients have received the drug on an experimental basis, both alone and in conjunction with the administration of sulfapyridine, widely used for pneumonia and meningitis, at more than forty medical centers. Jaudice, "drug fever," renal cholic, and other undesirable effects produced in some cases by sulphapyridine and sulfanilamide were not observed to accompany the use of sulfathiazole. Toxicity was negligible. The most significant finding concerning the new chemical is its effectiveness against infections caused by staphylococci, a family of organisms causing infectious diseases against which neither sulphapyridine nor sulfanilamide were successful in combating. Thus, with each contribution emanating from research laboratories the practice of medicine is more and more becoming the science of medicine. Gradually the frontiers of effective medicine are broadening, and the symbol of Aesculapius, the divine physician, is taking on greater significance. ★ ★ ★ UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS OFFICIAL BULLETIN Vol. 37 Tuesday, April 9, 1940 No.124 A. S.C.E. A.S.C.E. will have a meeting this Thursday at 7:30 p.m. in Marvin Hall, Room 210. Purpose is to discuss plans for Kansas City Convention. It is very important that all those planning to attend the Convention be at the meeting—Leonard Schroeter, president. BOTANY CLUB: There will be a meeting of the Botany Club Wednesday at 7:30 p.m.—Robert Schmidt, secretary. LE CERCLE FRANCAIS: Le Cercle français se re-unira mercredi le 10 avril a quatre heures et demie dans la salle 113 Frank Strong Hall. Tous ceux qui parlent français sont invites—Rosemary Jones. secretary JAY JANE MEETING: Jay Jane meeting tomorrow at 4:30 p.m. in the Ball Room of the Union building.—Ruth Spencer, president. NEWMAN CLUB: The regular discussion and business meeting of the Newman Club will be held tonight at 7:30 in St. John's Church Hall. The discussion meetings are open to all Catholic and non-Catholic students who wish to attend. Rev M. T. Hoffman will lead the discussion — Albert Protett, vice-president. SUPERVISED TEACHING: Students interested in doing supervised teaching next year in Oread Training School or in music or art in the city schools, should call at the Education office.—R. A. Schwegler, Dean. TAU SIGMA: Tau Sigma will meet tonight at 7:30. —Geardine Ulm, president. RHADAMANTHI: Rhadamanthi, poetry society, will meet this evening at 7:30 in the Pine Room. Gordon Brigham will discuss Browning's dramatic monologues, to be followed by an important business meeting. All members please attend— UNIVERSITY WOMEN'S CLUB; The University Women's Club will have a tea Thursday at 3 o'clock in the men's lounge in the Union building. An important business meeting will be held at 3:30 which all members are urged to attend. Each one is asked to bring a pencil.-Mrs. J. J. Kistler. W. S.G.A. EXECUTIVE COUNCIL: W.S.G.A. Executive Council will meet at 7:00 o'clock tonight in the Pine room. -O'Theene Huff, president. W. S.G.A. TEA: There will be a tea in the women's lounge in the Administration building tomorrow afternoon from 3 to 5. All University women are invited. Jean Klussman. UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN Official Student Paper of THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS KANSAS, Kansas Publisher ... Walt Meininger EDITORIAL STAFF Editor-in-Chief Reginald Buxton Gene Kuhn Betty Coulson Jim Bell Feature Editor Virginia Gray Associate Editors NEWS STAFF Managing Editor ... Jay Simon Campus Editor ... George Sitterley Campus Editor ... 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Cliff jotted down the order and the address, the sandwiches and shakes were made, and not until he was handing it to the boy to be delivered did Cliff realize that 1346 Ohio was the Jayhawk Cafe. ★ Prof. Crafton revived a 1929 epic, "The Love Parade," for his movie class yesterday. Several Walter Pidgeon fans wavered after seeing the way Maurice Chevalier could wear a straw hat. ★ Signs of the times: the familiar electric-eye rifle which you used to shoot at a fast moving chicken-thief has been replaced by a new marksmanship gadget . . . it is a machine-gun that spouts electric flashes at an elusive airplane flashed on a screen. When a direct hit is scored the plane turns red . . . goes down in flames. More effective war propaganda in a toy than in a barrage of headlines. ★ The Kansas City Star diplomatically editorialized on the St. Louis Post-Dispatch squelch case stating American radio systems broadcast all night, keeping those jittery enough to stay up well informed as to Europe's latest misfortune. The war is back in the headlines with Norway at war, and Denmark annexed. that "The Star does not undertake to pass on the case." Then the editorial casually concluded with the story of the vitriolic Senator Glass of Virginia who once said of an opponent in Congress: "If I were allowed by the rules of the Senate, I would call him a liar." Germany has moved into Denmark. This sounds familiar because it is familiar. This time the stage has shifted to Denmark and the Nazi half of the international juncey team is performing. Denmark is a self-respecting country, 16,000 square miles in area, with a total lack of natural resources, armies, navies, mines or mountains. The Danes are essentially democratic (in the social and economic rather than the political sense of the word). The fat-starved Germans have annexed a country which supplies the world with 30 per cent of its butter. Trees For Hill--botany. Part of the plan would be a catalogue made by the botanist and keyed with individual plants Each tree would have a card containing pertinent information, such as its method of growth, its hardness, its heat and drought tolerance and any peculiarities. These cards would be of great importance in determining new trees which might be successfully grown in this area, DeRell stated. ★ Durell, instructor in botany, who has never seen a poem, not even an anthology, as lovely as a tree, has a dream of seeing the Campus turned into a miniature arboretum. Botanist Proposes Living Memorials for Campus By Helen Ruth Focht, c'40 Durell's realistic dream is twofold. First, he wants to get a large number of new trees of different varieties placed on the campus in well-planned plantings. Second, he wants to label and catalogue all trees on the campus. It is a dream of such scope that to realize it would require all possible student cooperation. Durell, with all the enthusiasm of a man who has a great idea, remarked, "If student groups who desire to make memorial gifts to the University would give forestry plantings they would be leaving living memorials which would be here when they returned, no matter how long that should be. Moreover, such gifts would make for a better-looking, prettier campus." Durell would have zinc labels attached to all trees on the campus. These would carry the scientific name of the tree, its common name, its distribution, any significance the tree might have here, and a key number. The labels' purpose would be to inform the observer of the name of the tree to arouse his interest in that tree and others around it. Besides being things of beauty and squirrel harbors the trees could serve as an important supplement to the work of the department of Stockholm, Sweden, April 9-（U—By transatlantic telephone New York)-Denish soldiers, fleeing the German invaders are crossing into so-far neutral Sweden reports reaching the capital indicated today. "If the campus is to be converted into an arboretum, student interest is essential," Durell said. And it student interest is one-tenth that of the botanist then Mt. Oread wil in time become one of the greens show places of the Middle West. Treaty Broken---- Soldiers Flee--- Washington, April 9. (UP) German and Denmark signed a non-aggress ion treaty less than a year ago guaranteeing they would not return to force in any circumstance. On May 31, 1939, the treaty was signed at Berlin. The first article said: "The kingdom of Denmark and the German Reich will in no circumstance resort to war or to an other form of violence against each other."