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SUNDAY, MARCH 20, 1938
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Comment
Have You
Done Your Bit?
The fight against syphilis has scored another victory.
Governor Lehman of New York signed last Friday a measure requiring all prospective mothers to take a blood test for syphilis and the birth certificate to show whether the test was made. The result of the examination will not be revealed.
This measure characterized by the state health department as the "first law anywhere with the object of protecting the unborn child from congenital syphilis" is an important step in the eradication of syphilis. "For syphilis fighters know that more than half of all women infected, when the blood test spots their sickness, are not aware they have ever harbored this microbe that is waiting to bring doom to their unborn babies," writes Dr. Thomas Parran, surgeon general of the United States Public Health service, in a recent issue of the Ladies' Home Journal.
If the provisions of this bill are faithfully carried out, thousand of infants will be saved every year from death or disease caused by syphilis. Dr. Paul B. Brooks, deputy state commissioner of health, estimates that in New York state alone nearly all of 4,000 infants born with syphilis could be saved and that half of the 18,000 still births annually would be prevented.
There is an urgent need for expectant mothers to take a blood test and, if infected, to secure proper and adequate treatments. Each year 60,000 children are born in the United States with congenital syphilis. Five times out of six the untreated syphilitic pregnant mother will bear a dead or diseased child. But if treatment is adequate and is begun before the fifth month of pregnancy, the syphilitic mother will bear a healthy child 10 times out of 11.
We can eradicate congenital syphilis. Denmark has furnished us an excellent example of what a determined campaign against syphilis is able to accomplish. Among the entire population of nearly 4,000,000 in that country, there are now fewer than 100 cases annually of children having syphilis. In any one year for the past four years, there have been found not more than 12 cases of syphilis, acquired prenatally, among the 800,000 people of the city of Copenhagen.
What Denmark has done, we can do too. A syphilis program over the past decade as effective as Denmark's would have reduced the 60,000 annual cases of congenital syphilis in the United States to 2,600.
The battle against syphilis requires the undivided support and co-operation of every one of us, for, in the words of Dr. Thomas Parran, "we can prove that the cost of these babies dying, of maintaining these thousands of children sick, crippled, blinded, deaf, deformed or insane, is many times the cost of wiping out this
syphilis of the innocent."
Don't forget that Watkins Memorial hospital gives free Wassermann tests to students. Have you had yours yet?
Campus Opinion
Both Sides Should Be Presented
Both Sides Should Be Presented Editor. Daily Kansan:
After going to the two recent forums, I think that something should be done about the radical viewpoints given there by many of the opposition on the decision to be presented? In the American Student Union forum on academic freedom the speakers even said that Communists would be the greatest danger which lurk in such unlimited freedom, however. Freedom for such subversive ideas would cause him to become un-American. The perils attached to academic freedom should have been shown by some speaker at this forum, but the ASU saw to that.
Also, at the United Student Peace Committee forum on patriotism, the same high disregard was shown for the great American ideals. The speakers soked fun at patriotism and made light of it. This committee, too, had much to say about the question. Thus, no one showed that the sacred fire of patriotism must be kept burning brightly to preserve our noble country. Involve. There was no speaker to show the nobility and sacrifice of unarmed patriotism as someone from the American Legion or from the R.O.T.C. could
The Forums Board should insist that both sides of the questions be presented. The board showed wisdom when he asked what kind of speech it was here, although it took a threat from our wise state legislature to more or less limit the members into doing so. It is required that we limit the realization that freedom of speech is all right in its place, but that un-American ideas shouldn't be spread. This is necessary, because this realization in sponsoring these two one-sided forums. As a result the students have been subjected to this kind of speech, and so the life of our great nation if not stopped.
"Patriotic"
Official University Bulletin
Official University Bulletin
Vol. 35 SUNDAY, MARCH 20, 1938 No. 118
CREATIVE LEISURE COMMISSION; The Creative Leisure Commission will meet at Henley house at 2:30 this afternoon. The work on the movie will be finished—Buth Fongel, Charles Yeamans.
FRESHMAN COMMISSION: The Freshman Commission of W.Y.C.W. will meet at 4:30 Monday at Henley house. Dorothy Bucher will have charge of the meeting—Jean Robertson.
K. U. CAMERA CLUB; Professor Edward Dean of the department of journalism, will discuss the variables that affect the reading of newspapers and newspapers, Tuesday evening. March 22 at 7:30 in room 102 Journal building. Everyone
NEWMAN CLUB: The Newman Club will meet Tuesday, March 22, at 7:30 in the parish hall. Members are reminded to bring friends—Benedict P. Barowski.
NOTICE CONCERNING APPLICATION FOR POSITION AGRER. These interested in the position should file written application with the committee in the office, or send a resumption letter before Tuesday, March 22—Elizabeth Merguiat, Chairwoman.
RED CROSS EXAMINERS SCHOOL Candidates
Monday noon - Herbert J. Robinson gymnasium before
Monday noon
SNOW ZOOLOGY CLUB. The regular meeting of the Zoology Club on Sunday will be held at the Museum of Evolution of a tibrafate from the Invertebrate. All are invited to come prepared to join in the discussion. Dinner will be on Saturday, May 26.
W.S.G.A. There will be a meeting of the W.S.G.A.
Executive Council at 7 o'clock Tuesday evening in
the Pine room. All members take notice—Geneve
Landrith, President.
DRAMATIC CLUB
KANSAS PLAYERS
Curtain Promptly at 8:20
Maxwell Anderson's "WINTERSET"
Activity and Season Tickets Admit Single Admission 50c
FRASER THEATRE
Ticket Office—Green Hall-KU 174
(Best Seats Are for Tuesday Evening)
On the Shin-one tell me it helps, when taking a quiz.
Tuesday, Wednesday Thursday and Friday
POME
a steak fry?" asks the campus realist.
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To tank up beforehand on sloe gin fizz.
Others think crib notes a great creation.
To use on that tough examination.
Still others say the proper way is to sit at near long. (We make it
Is to sit near Jones (we made an "A")
One thing that troubles me, tell me now.
What is education . . . . . anyhow?
—Robert LaMont.
Much to our surprise a couple of Topeka ladies have objected to the use of Topeka canines for experimental purposes in the KU medi school. All of which reminds us of the lad who has the tattoo under his arm which reads: "Property if ___ school of medicine, 'Please notify.' And then there was the lad who decided to do a little bisecting and cut up next door across the alley when he was in grade school. All of which goes to prove that the ladies in Topeka are barking up an imaginary tree when they get the idea that they will stop science in the interest of human societies. Arf rrf. (Woof-woo.)
The winna. Robert LaMont gets today's ticket to the Dickinson. Deanna Durbia and Herbert Marshall team up to make "Mad About Music."
University Daily Kansan
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Y.M.C.A. Freshmen To Hear Melvin
Prof. F. E. Melvin, of the department of history, will discuss the European situation in an address entitled "Gauntlets" before the freshman council of the Y.M.C.A. tomorrow.
The meeting will be held at 4:30 p.m. in the men's lounge of the Memorial Union building.
Business Fraternity Announces New Members
Beta Gamma Sigma, national honorary business fraternity, announces the following new members: Bibh
d. S. Hewsey, assistant professor of economics; Edward Kruger, juni-
tler; Eleanor E. Mann, Ray Luther Britton, Fernand Demaret, Bernhard Moe Ettenson, Challis A. Hall,
Lowell Haldeman, Nalwil N. Klue, Frank H. Roberts, and Wilmoth Smiley, seniors.
Campbell, Raup. and Leonard Are New 'Y.M.' Officers
Brent Campbell, e'41, has been appointed vice-president of the freshman Y.M.C.A. council. He succeeded Joseph F. e'41, who recently resigned.
the president, Charles Wright,
c'41; also appointed Alvin Leonard,
c'41; secretary and Rowland Raup,
c'41; treasurer.
The dedecorated Trinity Episcopal Church will open its doors this morning for church services. Workers have spent five months repairing and redecorating it. Music by the boys' choir will be a special feature of the 11 o'clock service.
Will Conduct Services In Redecorated Church
University Debaters To Missouri Valley Tournament
Students representing the University in the Missouri valley debate and extemporaneous speaking tournament to be held Thursday, Friday, and Saturday in Austin, Texas; are James Mollery, 138, Omer Voss, 139, Dean Moorhead, c'38, and Leo Rhodes, c'40.
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A Gypsy Told Me
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