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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
SUNDAY. MAY 15. 1938
Comment
Seniors, have you had your Wassermann yet?
Seniors
Your Opportunity
Up to date, 1294 tests have been given. Out of the first 1,000 tests, there was only one positive reaction, while out of the next 294 tests there were four positive reactions. All five cases were unsuspected—the students did not know that they were infected with syphilis. These five students were greatly benefited by taking the Wassermann test.
While seniors are still in school, they can take the test free at Watkins Memorial hospital. After they leave school, they have to pay a minimum fee of $5 for the test at any hospital.
Arrangements are made for the care of syphilis cases of which 95 per cent can be curd. The sooner the disease is discovered the quicker and better will the cure be.
All seniors should take the test before leaving school for the sake of their health and happiness. Seniors will be given preference so as to conserve time. Wassermann tests will be given free up to June 3.
Seniors, it is your opportunity. Make use of it.
Third Party Adds To Political Confusion
Governor Phil LaFollette of Wisconsin has clouded the political horizon with his National Progressives of America and there seems to be a storm brewing for liberalism in 1940. And just when the sunshine of a new progressive-conservative re-alignment was forecast, too.
President Roosevelt, with patronage and appointments at his disposal, should certainly be able to control the Democratic national convention in 1940 for himself or his hand-picked successor. Deep South conservatism has indicated in the anti-lynching, wage-hour, and supreme court re-organization battles that membership in the President's political party is sheer coincidence and that a divorce will be arranged, even if Dixie is forced to vote Republican in 1940.
Since the number of Republican progressives in congress and influential in the party can be gounted on a clenched fist, the day seemed to have arrived when senseless haggling between Tweedledum and Tweedledee would end. No longer would American politics be the pot calling the kettle black and the kettle reciprocating. There seemed to be the first genuine opportunity for a liberal-conservative re-alignment between the parties in half a century.
But now things are jolted by the entrance of a party which will derive its chief support from New Deal Democracy. Just what Governor Phil is trying to do is still hazy, despite four one-hour preamble and one two-hour summary. But certainly the move can only divide liberalism. A party which merits blessings from the New York Journal of Commerce, the Washington Post, Walter Lippmann, and Dorothy Thompson bodes no good for progressivism. A split can mean only victory for reaction in 1938 and 1940.
Governor LaFollette puts, as Time magazine says, an unhedged bet on capitalism. Yet the first point in the National Progressives' platform is "public ownership and control of money and credit"—i-, e., of banking, whose private operation is one of the most characteristic aspects of capitalism. The confusion is amazing.
Granted that the New Deal is a poor palpative for fundamental change and given that Roosevelt is pursuing a dangerous foreign policy, it is a misguided liberal who will shift his allegiance from a bird in the hand to something kicking around in the bush. The time is probably not yet ripe for sweeping reform, but if it were the National Progressives hardly seem to be out to achieve it.
As Paul Y. Anderson, staff correspondent for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, concluded. La-Follette's move is "childish nonsense, redeemed only by the fact that it is too childish to be very dangerous."
Fighting Tendency Needs an Outlet
Propaganda has long been a scapegoat. It helped lead us into the World War and since then the term has meant all things evil and mainly all views in opposition to ours. Dr. Gregory Zilboorg, a New York physician and specialist in mental diseases, agrees that propaganda may lead us to war but he makes this additional observation: war propaganda can have no effect unless social conditions have put the people in a fighting mood.
The human being has a tendency for hating. He must vent this hate at some object and if he is not allowed a normal emotional outlet of occasional revolt, even though harmless, against his country, his president, or opposition political party, he turns his hate into a feeling of belligerence toward other countries.
Doctor Zilboorg claims this as the reason for the militaristic and aggressiveness of dictator-ruled nations today. Where within a democratic country there are ample outlets for that fighting tendency in strikes, political and social battles, sports, and criminal justice, war propaganda is inefficient because the nation feels rather pacific toward the world. The hatred is spent within its own borders.
If, however, an event in a war between foreign countries has a direct bearing on the democratic nation, such as the sinking of the Lusitania in the World War, war propaganda is seen in a new light. It becomes more powerful because of the feeling of insecurity engendered in the democratic country. The propaganda then has a fertile social field in which to work hatred blazes itself into war.
Nine years of depression have developed the ingenuity of the American in job-hunting and job-making. But radio station KQV in Pittsburgh is making a new realistic attack on unemployment. During Friday night studio program unemployed persons are interviewed in regard to type of work desired, size of family, abilities, education—a sort of vocal application blank. Listeners are asked to do everything possible to find these people jobs.
Official University Bulletin
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Vol. 35 SUNDAY, MAY 15, 1938 No. 155
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CHRISTIAN SCIENCE ORGANIZATION Regular weekly meeting will be held Tuesday afternoon in room C. Myers hall. All students and faculty members are invited to attend - Jack Dalley President.
COLLEGE FACULTY: The faculty of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences will meet on Tuesday, May 17, at 4:30 in the auditorium on the third floor of Frank强牢 hall—E. H. Lindley, President.
HOME ECONOMICS CLUB: The annual club banquet will be held at the Colonial Tea Room on Tuesday, May 17, at 6:30. Those who are planning to attend the banquet may register online (www.homeeconomicsclub.org) immediately. -Nadine Wagemen, President.
MEN'S AND WOMEN'S RIFLE TEAMS: The picnic scheduled for May 8 will be held Sunday, May 22 at the same time and place as before scheduled.-Virginia Starr.
NEWMAN CLUB. The Newman Club will meet Tuesday evening, May 17 at 7:30. All members are urged to attend as very important business matters will be discussed - Benedict P. Bagrowski.
SNOW ZOLOGY CLUB: The Snow Zoology Club will hold its last meeting of the year on Tuesday, May 17. A picnic has been planned and all members are invited to a reception of officers will be held—Betta Barnes, Secretary.
PSYCHOLOGY CLUB. There will be a meeting at 4:30 on Monday. Norton Knight will present a discussion on his Master's thesis pertaining to Socia Psychology—Earl Stuckenbruck, President.
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Plastics Will Simulate Reality in Future Homes
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By Ernest Sanders, c'unel
In the chemical home of 1958 there is not a scrap of wood, no rocks or cement, no glass or rubber, and no metal except for electrical wiring and a few moving parts of machinery. The draperies are all spun from the casein in milk and can be tied back with "ivory" chains also made of casein. The pliars a d coverings of casein, and the blown out blown from guns. Mishievous Junior and his knife have no effect on the furniture and baskins since they are impervious to knife cuts and also to scuffling. This same young fellow is unable to break the windows because plastic glass will give like celluloid before it will shatter. Indeed, celluloid is its forerunner. The fireplace appears to be expressive, but plastic whose colors have not been allowed to set properly, thus simulating perfectly the appearance of marble.
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In the dining room the table top may be done in mother-of-pearl which never saw an oyster, and the penalty in the room may be fashiored in rough-hewn oak which never grew in a forest. These are all plastic materials and substitutes for the real thing, but they do not possess qualities which are more desirable than those in the originals. For instance, their low burning rate makes the home fire-proof. On the dining table are dishes whose exquisite delicacy gives no indication that they ever were formed from waste products of the city sewage.
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Young men of today are casting about with a great bewilderment as to which is the best possible work to enter. But Gus Bixby, e38, believes he has sidestepped this quandary by having prepared himself in his spare time to get in on the ground floor of an industry which is on its way to become as large as and, possibly, to outstrip our major industries as we know them today—steel, wood, rubber, and glass.
This new field is a fresh avenue of opportunity opening up and it originated only a handful of years ago. It is an unfolding world of make-believe which was born in chemical laboratories. Imitation which surpasses the original was its possibility that became its startling reality is the key to making this point out that the same science which has brought us from milk weeds, door knobs from sawdust, electricity from garbage, jewelry and clothing from sour milk, dishes from urinal wastes can conceivably bring us within the next 20 years chemical houses constructed of none of the traditional building materials. Every part of our lives is made of them. 1958 is one of the many forms of the new plastics which are, essentially, complex carbon compounds given permanent under heat and pressure. The very popular substance, Bakelite, is a plastic and it is but one type—one possibility in a field that is expanding almost daily, reaching out for new chemical compounds. But the more we publish, new substitutes for nature's diminishing supply of raw materials. Many Every-day Plastics
tunity is being ushered in with these materials which conceivably might take the place of any other materials. Young men will be wise for this business of tomorrow is closely for this business of tomorrow is spread out; in its roots today is.
Nickels Presents Seniors Recital
the final senior recital, Carroll Nickels, student of Prof. Karl Kueisterle, played his violin program Thursday evening at Frank Strong auditorium before a large audience. Nickels is concert master of the K. U. Symphony Orchestra and a memoir of the Westminster A Capella Choir.
Every-day examples of plastics to which we pay little heed are tooth brush handles, French phones, imitation ivory and bone toilet sets, an 1 costume bracelets. These are comparatively insignificant articles but they mark the beginning of an important step in the development destined to grow to the same proportions and possibly excelled the steel and lumber industries in the variety of its products' usefulness.
To translate what a plastic is, very simply, let us consider phenol-formaldehyde. That is the long chemical term which has reference to the materials in your skillet handle or your electric socket covering and it means eatable acid in food. When you put these two may be formed with a filler such as wood flour or ground paper. When cast without heat and pressure it has been found that 183 color combinations are possible which means that our synthetic home of the future will abound in hues and pastels to conform to the modern trend toward multicolors. Those few engaged in manufacturing these materials will be bathed in colors will grow enormously with experimentation.
As the opening number the violinist played Handel's "Sonata in D Major," with Marion Reed, fa41 at the piano. The second group consisted of "Praecidium" and "Al-Abi" (Kreisler, &,"Arioso" (Bach).
Godwokky's "Alt Wien," arranged by Michael Press; Schubert's "The Bee," and a "Shawnee Hunting Dance" arranged by Prof. C.S.
Skillton of the Fine Arts faculty,
made up the third group.
AT THE PATEE
All new products on the market reflect the trend toward plastics. For instance, the electric razor has extremely hard plastic coverings; the illuminated, non-glass dial of the Ford V8 is molded of Plaskon, a plastic trade name; cellulose hats have a glossy finish that reflects their appearance; the severe-lined radios of today achieve that glossy depth of color from substances discovered in chemical laboratories. Undoubtedly, a wealth of oppor-
Sleuthing team—Glenda Farrell, a subsister, and Bart Baxon came as a detective boy friend solve all the mysteries in "Blondes at Work," now playing through Tuesday at the Patee, on a dual-bill with Spencer Tracy and Lauze Rainer in "The Big City."
The program closed with the Bruch "Concerto." In this number Nickle was accompanied by an oratorio, which was directed by Professor Kuestner.
At the close of the program the violinist was recalled several times by the audience. Following the recital a reception for Carroll Nickels was given at the Phi Mu Alpa house, music faculty, of which the others Thursday evening were Robert Moss, fa'41, Robert Glatzbach, fa'40, Charles Novotny, b'50, and Lewis Copeland, fa'40.
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"Among the D.U.'s: Leigh Fischer was back to his Alma Mater and in his usual condition for the party Friday night," Paul Clarke and Judge Pearson
Diddle Asher was there despite his anchoretic tendencies after the carnival tessue Thursday night. . Edgerton was without Praille. In case you didn't know, they are catting and dogging at present.
According to the K. C. Times, Nancy Randolph's idea of college life is, "All the girls have on their minds is the boys and all the boys have on their minds is a collection of battered hats."
A. S.M.E. Elects Officers
Guy Bixby gets today's ticket to the Granada. Ginger Rogers and James Stewart are starred in "Vivacious Lady."
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The Daily Kansan is the advertiser's best medium in Lawrence—It goes into 75% of the homes in the student district; contacts over 4500 students, 250 faculty members, and a host of University friends, employees, and alumni.
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