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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
SUNDAY MAY 22.1936
Comment
Today Is Sunday
Out of 365 days, 52—out of seven days, one is a day for rest from weekly work, a day for worship.
Sunday's place in these 365 days is singular. On this day shops close all over the world. Machines idle, their operators go home. The smoke of the factories dissolves into mist and disappears in order that a purifying sun might cleanse the cities. The brown earth heals from the plow-wounds. The noise of pounding hammers stilled, bird-songs are wafte from green trees on fresh breezes, unburdened with the odor of refineries. Men cease labor and expansion of worn muscles, and allow their souls' enlargement.
Churches are the finest expression of the spirit of Sunday. In church, consecrated voices blended in the sounds of sacred hymns bathe the quiet atmosphere in serenity and peace. Here we may thank Him who made us, for being alive to what He has placed on this earth for our enjoyment. The minister stimulates us to sum up our week, to analyze ourselves in the light of what we can be. Are we growing in a path conducive to our deepest, fullest, and longest-lasting enjoyment? This question and others we ask ourselves and their answers determine the quality of our lives. For what is a minister but to minister to us?
This speeded-up century could not live without the stabilizing power that is Sunday's, as most freely expressed in our churches.
Today is Sunday.
Need for Better Balanced Teachers
Better balanced, preferably married teachers constitute the greatest need in the United States' school system today, according to a committee led by Prof. Daniel A. Prescott of Ruggers. The committee spent four years studying the relation of emotion to learning and in the final report proposed that educators pay as much attention to children's emotions as they do to the more intellectual accomplishments.
Divore, crime, and insanity are direct results of this neglect of the emotions, say psychologists. Tension created by the schools and restless home lives bring about insecurity and anxiety and prevent children from growing into well-balanced adults. Dr. Prescott found, too, that an individual learns pleasant words more easily than unpleasant words; whether or not an individual learns depends upon his emotional incentive for learning.
Besides unworried teachers, the committee recommended that the schools furnish more esthetic outlets such as art and music. This would provide the children with a balance and help train their emotions in the direction of an emotionally mature behavior, a compromise between modern social, ethical, and physical demands of living.
"This report is the most significant work in this field which has appeared in years," is the comment of Prof. R. W. Tyler, head of the department of education of Chicago University.
Reform advocates for the field of education are increasing daily. The gradual decrease in the regimentation of the schools reflects this tendency but movement is slow and only in a few spots over the nation does a report such as this receive attention. In still fewer places are its recommendations carried out.
Boy Scouting— An Agency for Peace
Since 60 per cent of America's boy population is in rural districts, the committee urged extension of the movement in farmlands and villages.
The National Council of the Boy Scouts of America at its annual meeting in Cleveland mapped out a program for including in its membership all boys who want to join even though they are unable to do so because of lack of scout units in their neighborhoods.
This is a noble undertaking and deserves support. The scout program has proved effective in prevention of juvenile delinquency in underprivileged urban sections, the Committee on Research and Program Development reported.
The boy scout movement is instrumental in bringing about better relations and understanding among the boys of the nations of the world and thus help to create a world peace in the coming generation. Since scouting is carried on in 72 countries under 43 flags and half of the boy scouts in the world live outside the United States, it is an effective agent to foster friendliness and good will. Any organization which brings about better relationship between the nations should be given all the assistance and encouragement that we are able to give it.
"Here," said Dr. William Mather Lewis,
president of Lafayette College, "is a chance through communication, exchange of visits, and mutual activities, to build up a spirit of friendship and understanding that will be difficult to break down."
Radio Is Important Factor in Education
With the installation of a new transmitter, WLB, the University of Minnesota radio station at Minneapolis, becomes virtually a university of the air. Formerly the university station shared hours with a commercial station and broadcast only eight hours each week. But under the new arrangement, it will be on the air 47 hours a week as an independent station.
Financed with appropriations by the state to the university, WLB is not a commercial station nor will it transmit commercial advertising and programs. Instead, many experimental programs will be tried in an effort to fit the programs of the station to the especial needs of the Northwest.
As at KFKU, the University station, music is to be mainly classical with fill-in music provided by recordings; however, professional artists also will appear as members of the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra. Like KFKU, the University of Minnesota station will also utilize campus organizations in periodical broadcasts as the university band and the students' dramatic organization to put on plays and dramatizations. Sports and news programs will likewise be scheduled.
Furthermore, a new type of educational broadcasting will be developed. Among the unusual features will be lectures that originate in classrooms with the university professor thus speaking to a radio audience as well as to students. Experiments have already been successfully conducted with classroom broadcasting of lectures on philosophy and in political science. In addition, special programs will be scheduled when important personages and distinguished scholars visit the campus. To further meet the requirements of the northwest region, the agricultural college plans to co-operate with WLB to give information on all phases of farming and husbandry.
With the roundtable discussions instituted by the University of Chicago and Northwestern University, and more recently by the University of Kansas City, radio as an educational factor is showing itself to be a dynamic factor in education.
Notices at due at Camellia's Office at 3 p.m., preceding regular publication day and 11:15 a.m. on Friday, May 20th.
Official University Bulletin
Vol. 35 SUNDAY, MAY 22,1938 No.160
--of the night school. She is also doing research work on other night schools in the country, studying the popularity of adult education.
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE ORGANIZATION: The regular weekly meeting will be held Tuesday afternoon in room C, Myers hall. All students and faculty members interested are invited to attend--Jack
NOTICE TO FACULTY MEMBERS: The regular payroll is ready for signatures. All faculty members whose appointments are on a nine-month basis are required to sign. Please see June 4 note to the payroll—Karl Klooz, Bursar.
PHI DELTA KAPPA: There will be an important short business meeting at 3:30 on Monday, May 23, in room 1052.
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In 1933 neutrons were discovered.
A neutron is a piece of matter, with no electrical charge, about the size of a proton. A proton, together with one electron, forms an atom of hydrogen. Such an atom weighs about $6,000,000,000,000$ of a pound, so a neutron is very heavy at it.
People who tear apart molecules to see that they tick them, and people who do so far as to take pictures of pieces of molecules are generally reckoned to be gray-bearded old men who entangle themselves in a mass of coils called a laboratory and stay buried under piles of electrons and formulae.
But they aren't, or at least needn't be. For example: Stanley Alexander; a graduate student, has been working on Laue diagrams for neutrons for the past two school years.
Laue diagrams were first discovered Friederich Freudenthal in connection with X-rays. Laue passed X-rays through a crystal. The crystal spread the rays out in a manner analogous to that in which a spectroscope spreads out white light, or to the way rain drops split up light into a rainbow. Of course the results weren't visible, but had to be recorded on a photographic plate. When developed the plate showed arrangement of dots in several overlapping circles—a characteristic of the crystal he used. such diagrams show the way the particles in the crystal are arranged.
But what neutrons lack in weight they make up in speed. When they leave their source they're going at four and on half to 22 miles per second. That's too fast for picture taking, so they have to be slowed down to about 1.6 miles per second. Stan gets his neutrons from the action of radium from old radon tubes on beryllium. Radon tubes are used in radium treatments in hospitals, and Stan uses them because they are the cheapest source. The most important material in the tubes is originally a gas, but it changes to a solid, radio lead, or radiium D. which is not nearly as active as the fresh tubes. Give Off Alkali Particles
Entered as second-class matter, September 17, 1910, at the post office at Lawrence, Kan.
Stan mixes the radio lead with the powdered berryllium, a metal, and puts the mixture in a little capsule. The radio lead degenerates, giving off alpha particles and finally turning to lead.
The alpha particles, are absorbed by the berrillium, and cause it to give off neutrons. No one is sure just why, but the neutrons come off. As the neutrons come from the berrillium, they pass through one and half to 82 miles per second. To slow them down Stan uses paraffin. The capsule containing the berrillium and radium mixture he puts inside a cylinder of paraffin nearly eight inches across, so that all the neutrons have to pass through the cylinder and go out. That much paraffin slows them to picture-taking speed.
The cylinder of paraffin, with the capsule in its center is put in the center of a round cake-box-shaped container of cadmium. Cadmium absorbs the neutrons. At 10 places in the cylinder, six cadmium box are pin holes. Behind each pin hole is a second pin hole, and behind that is a crystal.
The neutrons which go in the pin holes go on through the crystal.
**Spread in Pattern**
As they go through the crystal they are spread out in the characteristic pattern for that crystal; and after they come out on the other side of the crystal they travel about three inches to an X-ray film. As a neutron strikes the film it affects the film as light affects ordinary photographic film. The neutrons goes on through and hits a piece of silver foil behind the film. Though the film is made from a material make the silver radio-active. The little spot where the neutron hits, then becomes radio active, and affects the film even more slightly than the original neutron.
After leaving the films exposed to the bombardment of neutrons for three weeks or more, Stan removes them and develops them. So far the films show only scattered spots without much pattern, because the spent film is so thin that light can pass almost all particles to give good results. Enough radium or other powerful source, to work well, would cost about two or three hundred dollars.
Though Stan is spending his time around Blake hall, he has other hobbies. He's interested in astronomy and playing with the robotic吏 he went to Washburn where he was an assistant in the astronomy department. Down here he spends much of his spare time in the observatory. He sat up taking pictures of the lunar eclipse with Doctor Brown and watched the piano well, too, but doesn't have much time to practice any more, and he like to ride motorcycles.
CSEP Projects-of the night school. She is also doing research work on other night schools in the country, studying the popularity of adult education.
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In the public schools of Lawrence are several University students on CSEP. One helps in a grade school library, cataloging and classifying books, and teaching children the use of a library.
Help Kindergarten
Another is serving a definite need in assisting with the kindergarten.
for no funds are available for an assistant.
Two men supervise children in playground activity. The superintendent reports great success in helping the students from Oroad high school where supervision by a CSEP student has improved the spirit of the playground.
Two teachers at Oread training
high school have been provided with three research assistants for their research work in educational fields.
The services rendered by students on CSEP on these projects may be intangible andclusive of actual benefits obtained there, nor will not leave one in doubt as to their value in the immediate present and the future.
AT THE VARSITY
Deana Durbin and her screen father Adalpine Maniou, reprise when she directs the movie *Universal in Universal*'s '110 Men and a Girl*, pull up the Venice Theatre.
AT THE DICKINSON
Loretta Young, Richard Greene, C. Aubrey Smith, David Niven, and George Sanders, *Sister in 'Four Men and a Priest',* which starts today at 10:30am on Friday.
AT THE GRANADA
Heroes who take their heroism with a light-hearted song. Above, five of the men who offered their lives in the interests of humanity in "Yellow Jack," staring drama of man's fight against yellow fever, which starts today at the Gronau for a 4-day engagement. Reading from left to right are William Henry, Andy Devine, Bohdan Ebssen, Alan Curtis and Sam Levene. In insert are Robert Montgomery and Virginia Bruce.
INTIMACY
There is nothing like the student newspaper for intimacy
It comes home from school with you, or it is waiting at the door to greet you in the morning. It enters your room as a close friend and adviser. In no other medium does Lawrence advertising make an appeal so personal, so intimate, as it does in the DAILY KANSAN, official student newspaper for K. U. students.
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