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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN. LAWRENCE. KANSAS
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 25, 1939
Kansan Comment
Results on Campus Vindicate Anti-Syphilis Campaign
Dr. Logan Clendening attacks the national campaign against syphilis directed by Dr. Thomas Parran, surgeon general of the United States. Dr. Clendening, who is a professor of clinical medicine at the University School of Medicine in Kansas City, expresses his views in an article in Commentator magazine.
His charges against the national fight against syphilis include the allegation that Wassermann tests for everybody mean the raising of mass hysteria, that the test is not infallible, and that modern methods of curing the disease are neither certain nor always beneficial. He writes:
"Then the idea that every infected individual should be intensively treated for syphilis, and that this will wipe out the plague! The opinions of practicing physicians in this field are quite at variance with such an optimistic idea. There are several doubts: one is whether syphilis, even with our modern methods, is ever cured. Another is whether the treatment is not often worse than the disease.
"Not that treatment in syphilis is ineffective or that it should not be exhibited. But it should be applied with great care and skill, individualizing each case. The wholesale slathering of anti-syphilitic treatment that the public health enthusiasts desire would be disastrous."
Last year the Daily Kansan carried on an extensive and successful campaign to obtain Wassermann tests for University students with the result that five hitherto unsuspected cases of syphilis were discovered among 1,500 students. Freshmen, taking their physical examinations this fall, were offered the test. Of the 880 who took it, two positive reactions and syphilitic infections were found.
Dr. Clendening's conclusions have not been borne out by the experiences on the Campus. There was no mass hysteria concerning the Wassermann tests. The tests were not considered infallible nor taken as final. The students were never led to believe that a Wassermann positive undoubtedly meant a case of syphilis nor that they would be rushed into treatment without further examination and tests.
On the other hand, those students who were infected were given every available care and shown confidence and privacy. The odds were overwhelmingly in favor of a cure for them, and within three treatments, they were rendered non-infectious to other people.
A wholesale slathering of anti-syphilitic treatment has not taken place. The campaign succeeded in several objectives.
(2) it effected a student consciousness to the disease and the test;
(1) it gave a well defined and true picture of syphilis and its effect on the nation and the individual;
(3) it overcame much public fear and hesitation due to ignorance of the Wassermann test;
(4) it saved seven lives from possible tragedy, death, disability and future institutional care.
The realization of these objectives at the University is worthwhile. Contrary to Dr. Clendening's belief that social diseases are a problem for private practice and not of public concern, this instance shows that the prodding of public interest has one overpowering and uncontroversial advantage. It is the method that gets results.
Science Reduces Marriage To Mathematics--Yeah?
A study of the factors contributing to marital happiness as revealed by the research of Prof. Lewis M. Terman of Stanford University is the latest contribution to the popularization of science made by Dr. Albert Wiggam, who visited Dr. Raymond Wheeler here recently.
Sexual adjustment was found to be less important as a basis for married happiness than a number of other factors. Many couples who were not well adjusted sexually were found to be happily married nevertheless.
Background and personality factors were discovered to be more important than sex. An ideal mate was judged to be one who came from a home whose parents were happily married, who had a happy childhood, who did not have any serious conflict with either the mother or father, and whose home discipline was "firm but not harsh."
Analysis showed that personality qualities have been expressed at times as causes for unhappiness when in reality they were only symptoms. An example was given of a man who thought he was unhappy because his wife was extravagant, whereas the true reason for his trouble was that he was stingy.
A chart in connection with this article in February's "Cosmopolitan" enables an individual to secure a score for himself which will indicate whether he is the "type" to be happily married. It seems strange that Dr. Wiggam failed to point out that even people who receive low scores, indicating poor marital prospects, can be helped by the latest methods developed in psychology, psychiatry, and mental hygiene.
Campus Opinion
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Why Were Meior and Jenkins Missing?
Editor, Daily Kansan:
After careful perusal of the list of men to be awarded football letters for the past season, we fail to find the names of two players who figured more or less prominently in the Jawahawk gridron season. These men were Milt Meir, substitute fullback who was injured in a pre-game grid accident before the Iowa game on Saturday. The team played well although not a great deal due to the excellence of the first string center, Chuck Warren.
Included in that list were names which many ardent Jayhawk football fans never heard save in pre-season publicity or on squat rosters. For obvious reasons names will not be given additional publicity here.
The point is that several men who contributed much less to the team than the two omitted were awarded letters by vulture, may we suggest, of counsel's favorites. The other group, if we were much, were omitted—perhaps for the same reason.
Unlike most schools of this size, the letters in football are awarded purely on a basis of coaches' suggestion. No certain number of games or quarters of service, or even minutes of play, are prerequisite to the "warning" of a letter. If such rules were in vogue the two omitted names would undoubtedly have graced the list of lettermen, while other names would probably have been missing.
How does it happen, Ad Lindsey, that Milt Meier who has been a loyal grader for four years, who served as the sub-fullback after Hall was injured; who threw two two-down passes in the Wash-burn game, and who was injured in the line of duty two games later, was not given a letter? How does it happen if Milt Meier was given a letter, although third and fourth string players in other positions were so honored?
Could it be the same factors which lostlost Dm Ebbling to the squad this season were again in operation? Could it be that you allowed personal favoritism rather than team service and loyalty to govern your selection?
At any rate, we feel that the K. U. Athletic Board, in passing on your recommendations, should be cognizant of the facts here presented. They might want o do something about it.
FIVE K. U. FOOTBALL FANS.
Wonders if Professors Went to College
Editor, Date: Kansas
Editor, Daily Kansan:
I sometimes wonder if my professors, assistant professors, and such, have ever been to college.
Do you think that after you have been through the grind, and had all the experience of a college last minute rush-up, that YOU would turn around and throw quit the last week before finals, or the very last day?
For this reason I doubt very much if some of my professors, etc., have even passed the stage known as childhood. They must be plucked off some tree (You know, the tree of "knowledge") in Eden.
I have to stop now—I've got to go to study for a quiz—tomorrow is the last day before finals.
A QUIZ-BORED STUDENT.
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--passion for each other. Tricky strikes at last, bringing to a climax this story, a study in the psyche pathology of sex.
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Editor of Time Predicts Future Events in Satire
John S. Martin, one of the editors of Time magazine since its founding, is not content to write contemporary history. His biblioseve view of world affairs has taken a squint at the last 50 years of the present century, and he has written books on us in an ingenious novel, "General Manpower" (Simon & Schuster).
For President Roosevelt he sees a third term, after that a four-year Republican regime, then the Presidency for James Roosevelt. Princess Elizabeth ascends Britain's throne at 32, after the liberation of India. Japan, where she was born, under a red rebellion, causing formation of the Union of Asian Soviets.
But these are all mere incidentals which, skinned together, develop a satirical yarn about J. Orestes Jones. An ingenious young Roxy theater
Faulkner's Latest Novel Full Of Feeling and Imagination
A story of flight is told in the isolation and disintegration of a young man who abandons a medical career for a woman, the wife of a man whose religion recognized no divorce. Caught in a passion bordering on madness, the internees flee with the woman and the two lovers travel from the Gulfs to the Great Wall and back west. Through hardships and great suffering, the two eke out an existence, barren save only for their
The intensity of feeling and the ability to pack a story with power and imagination continue to be the outstanding attributes of William Faulkner's writing as exemplified now in his latest novel, "The Wild Palms" (Random House. This is a dramatic story book in contrasting themes are developed in parallel chapters alternating between "Wild Palms" and "Old Man."
But Martin is never slapstick. He has produced the best satire on hunanity since Karel Capek's "War With the News."
One of the best things about having a heavy snow during final week is that students are too busy to write poems about either.
notes'n discords
by John Randolph Tye
When the state editors held their convention in Topeka last week, the Capital City Chamber of Commerce entertained them with a preview showing of "Jesse James." The editors accepted without a protest.
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by John Randolph Tye
Literary note: Gertrude Stein is the only prose writer who could do justice to the hustle and bustle of finals week.
usher, Jones sees what General Motors has done for automobiles, and General Electric for its field. Jones sees also great unemployment, and using men as raw materials, he organizes the giant corporation, General Motors, to train brains and brawn for any purpose. Then the fun begins. Fun for John Martin, too, for he takes sly digs at a good many persons of his wide acquaintance. Eventually, General Manpower gets involved in providing manpower to fight wars, a complication which Martin steers very defily across shoals which in less than hands would become slapstick.
Another Sour Owl has come and gone, yet the government at Washington still lives.
--the department of scandal and insanity. Last Saturday we were reminiscing of the good old days when serenades were vaudeville acts and not off-key renditions of "In the Garden."
Something to look forward to next semester is Carl奏新's new concert for piano which Lucille Wagner will perform this spring at her senior art class.
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--the department of scandal and insanity. Last Saturday we were reminiscing of the good old days when serenades were vaudeville acts and not off-key renditions of "In the Garden."
Earl Porter earns a position among the Mount Oread immortals. Only yesterday did he hear about the P Pi bench.
Getting the Daily Kansan to bed during final week is good training for journalism students. They learn not to complain when they have to work Sundays, holidays, and Christmas after graduation.
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eaves-dropping at the Union. Somebody in the next booth was discussing someone he evidently didn't admire and climaxed it by saying, "Yeah. He's majoring in allbiology."
On The SHIN—
"Old Man," a story of refuge, concerns a convict who is providentially cast adrift in the world again, but who prefers the "sheltering arms" of prison to freedom. The convict, sent out on a rescue detail, comes through a great flood in the Mississippi delta, save a woman and is posted as dead at the prison. But to this man, a woman is not one to flee with, rather to escape the captivity he gives up what might have been lasting freedom for the "safety" of prison.
Just six more days and students will feel like singing something beside "Dies Irae."
--the department of scandal and insanity. Last Saturday we were reminiscing of the good old days when serenades were vaudeville acts and not off-key renditions of "In the Garden."
Professor Storer delivered one of the better swan songs, to his astronomy class yesterday and so inspiration was it that I determined to do a dissertation upon the vastness and complexity of the universe. Until such time, however, suffice it to say that the sun is a luminous body 92,000,444 miles from the earth, although there have been mornings this winter when I could have sworn it was much farther than that.
--the department of scandal and insanity. Last Saturday we were reminiscing of the good old days when serenades were vaudeville acts and not off-key renditions of "In the Garden."
Both these stories are typically Faulkner, the craftsman who builds dramatic episode upon dramatic episode. Here, too, is the familiar approach, also the long sentences whose reading is a great effort.
It is with much regret that Ye Shinster notes the quitation come somesester's end of Kappa's Helen Geis. When she was a scientist editor of the Kansan she served in the capacity of a Good Girl Friday for this
And from that back through the years to the times when little girls were long underwear and took eloquence along with a little ballet dancing.
At the risk of irking some of the girls at Gower Place, Ye Shiastra reports that when their sophomore class took 17 of the most eligible boys to the Hearth for a dinner party Saturday night. Pi Phi's began studying for her diploma. The Pi Phi's were sponsoring Ladies' Night at the ballroom and didn't enjoy seeing the Kappa's seal some of their thunder.
Upon re-reading the foregoing and anemic paragraphs, I have concluded that what this column needs is a blood transfusion. So happily I announce that on Thursday and Friday—writing action of Schiller Shoe and Vincent Darden will be exposed in the port of the Kansan.
Did Not Enjoy-themselves to rid their university campus of lovers.
George wrote for several different magazines in various languages. The subjects of his contribution varied from politics and religion to tales of his own personal experiences in Europe and America. One of his published articles was placed on the approved student reading list for 1936 by the University of Toronto.
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Has Traveled Widely
The Russian-born student's hobbies are singing, speaking, writing, and travelling. For his own amusement he sings songs in the Russian, German, and English languages. He has journeyed in many parts of Europe, Canada, and the United States and can tell many interesting tales concerning his travels and experiences. During the past few years he has lectured in different languages in Toronto, Hamilton, Winnepeg, Chicago, Minnesota, cities on the West Coast. Since he enrolled in the University he has addressed students of Haskell Institute several times, the International Relations Club, the joint commission of the Y.W.C.A. and Y.M.C.A. and other organizations.
Lovers To Have Dirt Thrown At Them On One Campus
New Orleans—(UP)—"The Demons" at Loyola University of the South throw dirt in the faces of all lovers on the campus.
"The Demons" are an unromantic organization headed by Ivor A. Trapolino, an arts and science sophomore, who have taken it upon
"Any student," Tropolin said,
"who does not want to work in co-
operation with us will have dirt
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