PAGE TWO UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS THURSDAY, APRIL 21, 1938 Comment Knowledge Basis for Promotion Of course, the average college senior knows more than the average college sophomore and the college sophomore more than the high school senior. But individuals rank all the way up and down the scale. If degrees were given on the basis of general knowledge some 72 per cent of the senior class would remain undergraduates. Fifteen per cent of the freshmen would be entitled to degrees; 19 per cent of the sophomores and 21 per cent of the juniors would be graduated. About 3,000 high school graduates who found it impossible to go to college had more ability than the average student who went. The foundation offered some possible remedies for this discouraging situation. If accepted, the recommendations would revolutionize higher education in the United States. Only the best high school students should be chosen for colleges. Students should not be promoted on the basis of time spent in class. Objective tests of the multiple-answer sort could be used as a reliable method of measuring general knowledge of students. "Units and credits," says Dr. W. A. Jessup, president of the foundation, "...is not good enough for American education today." America Haven for Scholars "He studied abroad." Americans say that eniously, for it is a mark of distinction. Europe has been the seat of learning for many centuries. For a well-rounded education, students have gone to the Universities of Berlin, Prague, Vienna, Moscow. There are strong indications that the seat of learning is shifting from Europe to the United States. With the rise of dictators and suppression of free speech many scholars have sought refuge in this country. As a result, the "University of Exile," founded when Hitler came into power and forced many scholars to flee to this country, may be expanded to absorb scholars who will be compelled to leave Austria and Spain. Dr. Alvin S. Johnson, head of the New School of Social Research in New York City, recently stated that this country can take in an enormous number of scholars without doing an injustice to any of the professional persons here now. Indirectly, what has been Europe's loss has been the gain of the United States. Some of the most noted scholars of the world are found today in American universities, giving an increased emphasis to the value of scholarship. Many, perhaps, wonder whether it is a good idea to have these exponents of "foreign political philosophies" teach the youth of America. It hardly seems likely that these exiles would defend a political system and philosophy that has caused them grief. In fact it may be said that they perhaps are doing more to safeguard democratic institutions than some of our own native scholars. Democracy has furnished a haven to them. Roosevelt Offers Three-Point Program In his eleventh fireside chat to the nation since his first inauguration, President Roosevelt offered a three-point program to defeat the recurving depression: WPA to be used to continue relief, "deteriorate" gold to expand credit, and PWA to provide new jobs. It will be beneficial to the United States to encourage the influx of foreign scholars. This country could just as well lead the world in culture as in industrial advancement. His broadcast significantly followed a special message to congress that renewed a program of large-scale spending and credit expansion intended to deflect upward the curves of business activity. Of late congress has displayed stubbornness and independence toward the administration's recommendations. Dramatic evidence of this was the recent defeat handed the reorganization bill and also failure of the ways and means committee to abide by President Roosevelt's personal message that the undistributed profits tax and the capital gains tax be refined. Senate and house action on easy credit moves is not necessary; however, members of congress control appropriations of funds for relief and for public works. But many senators and representatives face fall elections and they will be slow to vote against expenditures for relief or public works, especially if arranged for local spending. Thus we shall probably see congress accepting the essentials of the President's recovery program, but revised, no doubt, to suit congressional rather than Presidential ideas. Industrial Freedom Recession Medicine Food for thought was expressed in the statement of Merle Thorpe, editor of the Nation's Business, in his address to the Kansas City Chamber of Commerce when he said that governmental control is suppressing the development of new industries and geniuses such as Henry Ford and others like him who have risen from peddling mechanics to the employer of thousands of men. In the period between 1920 and 1928 there was a large increase each year in the number of men employed by new and expanding industries. Since that time there has been a steady decrease in this number until at the present time it is practically at a stand-sill. Thorpe would see the government attempt to stimulate an industrial revolution, make way for the development of new industries, and the expansion of smaller ones, in an effort to combat recession and unemployment. Life and other picture magazines seem at last to have replaced the good old family album. Official University Bulletin Notices due at Cancellell's Office at 3 p.m., preceding regular publication day and 11:30 a.m. Vol. 35 Thursday, April 21, 1928 No. 138 ALL-UNIVERSITY CONVOCATION: An all University convocation will be held at ten o'clock Friday morning, April 22, in Hoch auditorium. -E. I Lindley, Chancellor. A. S.M.E. The Kansas student branch of the A.S.M.E. will meet with the Kansas City section, the Kansas City junior group and the student branch of the Kansas State College at 8 o'clock this evening in the Marvin auditorium, Mr. A. L. Maillard will be in "Presidential Consciousness"—Algot Johnson, Secretary. DILETANTES COMMISSION: The Diletantes will meet at 7 o'clock this evening for continued work on the picture-pagann. Characters for the pictures will be taken to rehearsal dates will be set—Alice Russell, Chairman. DRAMATIC CLUB: There will be a short meeting of the Dramatic Club at 4:30 this afternoon in the Lakeside Theater. HOUSE PRESIDENT'S MEETING: There will be hold a meeting of the Fire Room, Electrical officers will be held. Please send a representative if the president of your organization cannot come--Mary Lon Borders, President, House President. QUILL CLUB: Quill Club will meet at 7:30 to night in the Green room - Agnes Mumert, Secretary. REINTERPRETATION OF RELIGION COMMISSION: The Reinterpretation of Religion Commission will meet at 4:30 Friday in the Pine Room. Rev. Barr DeFord, Executive-Ecynol Brushker, Donald DeFord W. A.A.: There will be a business meeting and election of officers at the gymnasium at 4:30 today. After the business meeting a picnic will be held—Ruth Baker, President. University Daily Kansan Official Student Paper of THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS LAWENEER, KANSAS University Campus Is Industrial Center DAVID E. PARTRIDGE PUBLISHER By Ben Mandeville, c'38 The University of Kansas is a surprising place. Yes, it is a small industrial center, all itself. Editorial Staff EDITOR-AS-CHIEF MARTIN BENTON ADDITIONAL EDITORS MANINE PITCHER AND FERMYLE BROWNE ASSOCIATE EDITORS JOHN LEE CROSSMAN MANAGING EDITOR BILL TYLER CAMPUS EDITORS ELAON TORRENCIA AND LOUISE FOCKLEE NEWS EDITOR HARRY HALL SUNDAY EDITOR GEORGE CLASEN SOCIETY EDITOR DURGOT JANKE SHORT FILM REPRESENTATIVE NEW YORK REPRESENTATIVE MAKEUP EDITOR SHIRLEE SMITH REWITE EDITOR JACK MCAFFEY TELEGRAPH EDITOR DICK Martin Of course, students in large numbers stream from the buildings and proceed along the campus—plodding along with furrowed brow and worried look, wondering why they flunked that last history quiz, or strutting along humming a car to get out of the building that "swell" date last night. But we wonder how many of these persons so deeply immersed in matters of love, finance, studies, and any number of other personal problems or pleasures—realize just how interesting a place the old Hill can be if one scratches beneath the surface and takes some time off to invest in something else; see some of the activities that are on right under their noses. Kansan Board Members News Staff J. HOWARD RUSCO MARTIN BENTON DAVID E. PARTRIDGE MARKVAN GOREEL KENNETH MOHR JAMIN FLOE DAVID WILL TEMPEST MORRIS FLEETMAN F. QLEINN FONTENAY ELYTON E. CARTER WILLIAM FITZGERald ALAN ASHER DREW MELAUGHLIN ARLAND A. ELLIS HARRY LEIGHBURN By Ben Mandeville, c'38 Perhaps some students have already seen crude oil being broken down in order to determine its viscosity and its carbon content (in the E. H. S. Bailley Chemical laboratories); perhaps they have watched animals being ground out in the Fowler machine shop; perhaps they have seen dogs and rabbits being anesthetized and operated upon by physiology students, who take the animals apart in order to see what makes them tick; perhaps they have seen the peculiar -striking- shapes of bones when they were only a few billions of years old) which are housed under Hoch auditorium; and perhaps they have even seen minerals being assayed. 1937 Member 1938 Associated Collegiate Press Distributor of Collegiate Digest BUSINESS MANAGER F. QUENTIN BROWN REPRESENTED FOR NATIONAL ADVERTISING BY National Advertising Services, Inc. 240 MADISON AVE. NEW YORK, N.Y. CHICAGO EDITOR: BAR GAMERCHE BROOKLYN, NY Assay Ores for Precious Metals Although Kansas has no precious minerals, students and professors from far and near bring ore to the chemical laboratories in order to find out how much gold and silver it contains. Entered as second-class matter, September 17, 1910, at the post office at Lawrence, Kan. A class in assaying under E. D. Kinney, associate professor of chemical engineering, roasts all the ore and determines its contents. Your reporter watched class members pulverize about half a pint of ore into fine powder, then mix them it with lead oxidized; watched them add argot to it (ordinary wheat flour or anything with carbon in it will do); watched them roast it to a bout 750 degrees centigrade; watched them remove the small lead "button" which settled to the bottom after the mixture had cooled; watched them pour out the "button" (which contained whatever gold and silver happened to be in the ore, as well as all the lead) back into the furnace to roast for the better part of an hour; and then watched them remove the "button" and the small bone-ash cup which had been roasted along with it. Just as your reporter was beginning to wonder how much longer the process was, you could imagine about the size of a large pin-head inside the cup (the "button" had disappeared). Produce Clay Urns in Haworth "What is that?" he questioned. "Why, that's the gold and silver that the ore contained," replied the assayers. "You mean you went to all that trouble to get a pinhead of gold and silver!" In case the curious student desires to witness a process which, on the surface at least, seems to yield more of a return for the time and effort put in, he should watch the production of the clay urns and other articles which are roasted and turned out by the clay classes in Haworth hall. Anyone who feels an urge to express his artistic instincts may mold, bake, and paint pitchers, sah trays, or anything else—to suit his fancy. Or if he feels no need for creative self-expression he may merely go to Haworth hall and create his own sculptures, kneading of the clay; squeezing the water out of it; turning it in a huge potter's wheel; and then baking it to an extremely high temperature in a gas furnace. The test furnace will heat up to 3,400 degrees Fahrenheit. Its temperature is usually not measured in degrees, but in "combs." A "comb" is a por- calin-Bee substance about two inches long and the size of a piece of chalk. It stands on top the furnace, and when the latter reaches a certain heat the comb begins to wilt and bend over. Thus, one heats the furnace to "8 combs" (say), and not to "2,000 degrees." No, wonders never cease. Exhibit Opens-play known as a "reactometer," measures the time required by the driver to get his foot on the brake after the light changes. There are diagrams to show how far a car will travel during that space of time. Continued from page 1 Probably one of the most beautiful displays is made up of fluorescent minerals which will be shown in room 8 of the Geology building. The department of architecture will show by models, sketches and preliminary plans the progress of the student through his years in the course. Program covering individualized, furnished visitors at the exhbit. The chemical engineers will present a demonstration of the liquid air machine in room 7. Visitors to the Bailey Chemical laboratories will be allowed polar plates, which exemplify the use of various chemical compounds. Nash To Speak at Des Moines Sigua Tau, honorary engineering society, will present a cup to the winning exhibit. Read the Kansan Want Ads. Prof. Bert A. Nash of the School of education will leave today for Des Moines, where he will give a speech at the state convention on ontomesters. His subject will deal with the reading difficulties of children. How many of these Questions can you Answer? 1. 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