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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
WEDNESDAY, MAY 18. 1938
Comment
Training For Public Service
The University of Cincinnati offers to graduate students specialized training for public careers.
The university, located in the center of good government, is taking steps to prepare efficient and well trained public employees for the future. Graduate students wishing to become public officials and employees may enroll in the department of Public Service Training, which is in the university, and receive theoretical instruction and at the same time get public-service training by doing actual work as public employees in Cincinnati or in other governmental or social agencies depending upon what course they are taking. The students spend half their time in school and half their time working. To make the training more effective, many officials give lectures to the students.
By getting instruction in the university and experience in public service at the same time, the students have a wonderful opportunity to receive a well rounded education and training in their particular fields of work. Such an educational program ought to produce public employees who are well qualified and have a good knowledge for their special job. Better trained employees ought to provide better government for the citizens.
This department selects only the host and promising students for this specialized study. Only graduate students are enrolled and students with high scholastic standing are accepted from other accredited colleges and universities.
During its 10 years of successful operation, the department has placed graduates in almost every field of public service in counties, cities, states, and social welfare bodies throughout the country.
Dr. Raymond Walters of the department of Public Service Training makes the following remarks about the department and its work: "These courses in public service are in line with the now wide recognition of the need for recruiting a personnel for governmental and other public agencies, with special and adequate training in the theory and practice of public administration."
Doctor Walters gives two combining factors which make Cincinnati an ideal place for such training: "First, the facilities afforded by the city in its municipal administration and its community organization for social work; and second, the resources of the university in its relationship with the community and its experience with the co-operative system of education."
Such a plan might prove successful in other larger cities and it might be a step toward better and more efficient city administration.
How Much at Home Would Plato Be Today
The De Paulia:
"States and constitutions and arts and laws and much evil and much good." This was Plato's synopsis of civilization.
To a chaotic world whose nerves are gravely disordered, whose thinking is highly emotional, whose actions are largely inspired by passion, the college graduates of 1938 have an unconditioned opportunity to bring the spirit of Plato's philosophy, the serene, reasonable, and unprejudiced manner in which he faced the catastrophic events of his day.
We offer without further comment Plato's observation on public affairs;
"Unless, . . . lovers of wisdom bear sovereign rule in states, or those who are now called sovereigns and governors become sincere and capable lovers of wisdom, and government and love of wisdom be brought together, and unless the numerous natures who at present pursue either government or wisdom, and government and love of wisdom be brought together, and unless the numerous natures who at present pursue either government or wisdom, the one to the exclusion of the other, be forcibly debarred from this behavior, there will be no respite from evil, my dear Glaucon, for states, nor I fancy, humanity; nor will this constitution, which we have just described in our argument, come to the realization which is possible for it and see the light of day."
Policy Of Good Will
Is Latin America for the new world or old? Roland Hull Sharp, staff correspondent of the Christian Science Monitor, has taken a 20,000 mile trip in Latin America in search of an answer to this question.
Mr. Sharp came to the conclusion that the Latin Americans are strongly in favor of remaining in the new world family and will remain so unless forced out by some foreign
power. The American nations themselves are responsible for keeping clear of "aggressive world combinations now bidding for them."
According to Mr. Sharp's story in the Christian Science Monitor, "what is done, or not done, by the United States in the next few years to make the good neighbor policy more practical, may be of great importance.
Now a bill for the promotion of closer inter-American affairs has been introduced in the house. This bill calls for an appropriation of $5,000,000 a year to provide for mass exchange of students, setting up a powerful short-wave transmitter to reach Latin American countries, and providing for a director to handle relations with the other American countries.
"The purpose of this legislation is to provide means for friendly and neighborly relations with the South American countries and to show them that we desire only peace and good will toward them. Enacting and putting the bill into effect may be of great value and help in uniting the American countries against "aggressive world combinations."
Learning By Listening
Christian Science Monitor:
Two hours and five minutes a day devotee to radio! That is the average reported for 988 boys and girls in a New York high school. The same group gives an hour and twenty minutes daily to reading. Apparently the two hours are spent listening to music or tales out of school, for the survey found much of the radio material on a "low plane." But the figures do provoke thought about the wider use of the radio in school.
Of course, it cannot be assumed that time devoted to reading is necessarily educational or that all time given to radio should be educational in a narrow sense. But if more time is given to listening than to reading, what is heard becomes increasingly important. Very slow progress has been made in adapting radio to use in the schools. As an instrument of enlightenment it should equal the printing press. So far in the United States it is employed chiefly for the selling of soap and cigarettes and breakfast food.
Some day Americans will demand a better basic motivation for radio. Then two hours a day devoted to it by high school pupils will not raise such qualms. Meanwhile it may be remembered that the consumer is not helpless; a demand for better things is effective—and needed even with reading. When pupils and parents develop half as high selectivity as modern radio receivers, radio will be a good teacher both in and out of school.
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Geological Survey To Test Kansas Clay Pits
Vol. 35 WEDNESDAY, MAY 18, 1938 No. 157
--also that some of the data concerning the coal resources in southeastern Kansas will be off the press soon. The distribution of this report, as well as reports on the rock wool and clay deposits, will enable those interested in establishing industries using coal as a fuel to know the extent of reserves available.
LE CERCLE FRANCAIS: Le Cercle Francais will hold its last meeting of the year at 4:30 this afternoon in room 306, Fraser Hall. A short play will be pre-views on Friday, October 29th and all members to be present. Hollen Cooper, Secretary.
MATHEMATICS CLUB. Members of the mathematics Club meet on the north steps of Central Frank Strong hall at 12:30 on Thursday for the Mathematics Club picture—Charles E. Rickart, President.
By Willie Harmon, cunef
To develop an education in Kansas from the soil is the aim of the State Geological Survey committee of which Prof. Kenneth K. Landes, assistant director of the survey, and Norman Plummer, technician in geological survey, are members.
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Pointing with pride to a rock wool company, set up in Kansas through direct result of the survey committee, Mr. Plummer believes that a clay may develop if funds are received.
The survey committee is asking the aid this summer of 96 men from the WPA in order to test and develop clay play in Ellsworth, Republic, Clay, Cloud, Ottawa and Saline counties. The committee hopes to find a quality of clay as good as was found last year in Ellsworth county. Ellsworth clay is now being used in the University department of design work. Formerly clay for the department would have been used from antiquities but the survey committee tested and found that the clay in Ellsworth county was better than what the University was buying.
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Following the summer investigation the committee plans to publish a report which will cover not only the distribution and other pertinent field data, but also the results on the lay in the University ceramics laboratory.
But clay and rock wool are not the only soil deposits that the survey committee thinks will be of value in the future. "Underground water could be highly useful in Kansas," Mr. Landes said recently. If this ground water could be harnessed, it might be used for irrigation in parts of central and western Kansas. At present the committee is considering underground water supplies for Wichita.
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Kansas Needs-also that some of the data concerning the coal resources in southeastern Kansas will be off the press soon. The distribution of this report, as well as reports on the rock wool and clay deposits, will enable those interested in establishing industries using coal as a fuel to know the extent of reserves available.
cause the crowded conditions allow no research laboratory for advanced work.
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Need is felt for headquarters for the state board of pharmacy, and for the state drug laboratory which cheeks drugs for the state board of pharmacy. The university is housed in a new building as well as a state pharmaceutical museum of general interest. Construction of a new building would serve the state and the taxpayer as a whole if it provided spaces for the vitalization of pharmacy.
The present office of the dean of the school serves as a combination library, office, and work room, with computers, computers, computers between the dean and students.
self hold down the rating of the school.
Students in the class in advanced manufacturing compound drug supplies and prepare antiseptic solutions for the University of Kansas hospitals in Kansas City and for the student hospital on the Campus. They need more laboratory space to supply those services.
The school is now a member of the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy. The association plans this year for the first time to rate the schools membership. Previously certain requirements have had to be met in order for restriction at the University of Kansas will in it
A survey of pharmacy buildings on other campuses has shown that
L. E. Saye, dean of the University School of Pharmacy from its organization in 1891 until his death in 1926.
Kansas students are handicapped considerably by their cramped quarters. According to the standards of building, should rooms contain:
(1) A large lecture room usable for lectures and assemblies of the school as a whole.
(2) A library and reading room.
(3) A model drug store, with show windows where students could learn window decoration and individual prescription counters where students could work.
(4) A private office for the dean, with a waiting room for students; and offices for other faculty members.
(5) Ample laboratory room for all purposes, including graduate and research study.
(6) Quarters for state drug laboratory and for the state board of pharmacy.
(7) Museum room for collections of pharmaceutical and general public interest.
Ellsworth Returns From Alumni Meetings
Fred Ellsworth, secretary of the alumni association, returned Saturday from a tour of the state in connection with the membership and pre-commencement campaign.
Mr. Ellsworth, with Chesler Woodward, president of the Alumni association, met with a committee of alumni leaders in Salina and with them, planned their activities. From Salina the two went to Hutchinson, where a group of 50 alumni were gathered. Here Coach Ackind and Will J. Miller, new State Live-stock commissioner, invited the group Woodward, to the Alumni Football movies and pictures of Glenn Cunningham were shown at the meeting.
From Hutchinson the men went to Kingman for a large meeting of slumm. They also visited Wichita and EL Dorado. Here Mr. Woodward showed a teal of color movies which took in a national park in Canada.
Mr. Woodward will show some colored movies which he took on a trip to South Africa, on Sunday, afternoon, June 5, in Fraser theater.
Schwegler Speaks
The dinner was in honor of President-elect Clerence R. Decker, and marked the formal opening of the campaign for the endowment fund.
Schwegler Speaks At Kansas City University
Dr. Raymond A. Schweiger, dean of the School of Education, represented the University Friday night at the University of Kansas City.
Schwegler to Herington
Dr. Raymond A. Schwegel, dean of the School of Education, will speak at an evening Rotary meeting at Hertington on Friday, May 27. The meeting is to be a joint meeting with the Rotary Amms.
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