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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
TUESDAY, MARCH 15, 1989
Comment
Diphtheria Goes Syphilis Is Next
Dipheria has almost been wiped out of the State of Kansas according to a recent report made by the State Board of Health.
The report compares last year's diphtheria record of 374 cases and 24 deaths with that of 1921 when there were 7,849 cases and 382 deaths. There was reported a complete absence of the infection in nearly one-half the counties of the state and 88 counties had no death. And in Lawrence, for the third consecutive year, not a case nor a death from diphtheria was reported.
Treatment for immunization against the disease was begun in 1922 and with the co-operation of county commissioners, county medical societies, and the Kansas State Board of Health, a plan offering free immunization to all children between the ages of 9 months and 10 years was put into practice.
To date, only three counties—Bourbon, Leavenworth and Crawford—have failed to develop a satisfactory immunization program, and it was from these three counties that one-fifth of the total diphtheria cases of the state were reported last year.
As was true in the case of tuberculosis and is now true of syphilis, the report states that the greatest single problem to be overcome has been that of educating parents to the importance of taking advantage of the immunization plan.
By concerted action, it is said, we can completely eliminate the disease and save many children from a premature death. A campaign of this sort usually takes years to be put over. Today the fight is nearly won and the attention of the world is turning to the eradication of syphilis.
Green Adopts 'Woman's Prerogative'
What is the battle on the labor front all about anyway? We have always heard that John Lewis advocated industrial unionism while William Green was just as strongly defending his side of the fence—craft unionism.
Now in the New International Year Book, 1936, we find this statement:
William Green once reviewed the advantages of industrial unionism "reduction of opportunities or causes for jurisdictional disputes; the concentration of economic strength; the blending into harmonious co-operation of all men employed in industry and the advancement and protection of the interests of the unskilled laborer in the same proportion as that of the skilled."
Harps or Harpies In Investors' Heaven
"The average investor is unquestionably overwhelmed by the abstract nature of investments. He has been made to feel that wiser heads and fatter purses than his must rule the corporations to which he has entrusted his money," says Bernard J. Reis in a recent issue of Forum Magazine.
Mr. Reis points out that those men who are the heads of investment companies are no wiser and have no fatter purses than the average investor. They are merely men to whom the real owners, pre-occupied with other affairs, have delegated their authority. So in reality the officers and directors of the company are no more qualified financially or mentally than the average investor.
Machine-like tactics are used by them in retaining their office and in voting themselves fat salaries. When the enterprise gets into heavy seas the name of a prominent investor is used in the light of an underwriter to build up investors' confidence in the economic security of the corporation. His liability, however, is nil. The public is deceived, and if the company goes broke the average investor is the loser.
Deception rides high in investment companies especially when times are hard and when there is proposed to preferred stockholders, a plan for substituting a new issue of common stock. For this reason corporations are now required to register full and true information with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Mr. Reis calls this the golden opportunity for average investors to organize. He would see an organization of investors, directed by men of competence and with a social consciousness precluding personal gain, who will represent the small investors who, together, actually own the controlling interests and exert a powerful force in control.
force in control.
At present this is a little too advanced for the American public. With the wide spread geographical distribution of investors it would be extremely difficult to obtain an efficient working organization—if at all possible.
However, in the meantime, the investor
would do well in choosing his investment, in refusing to accept any information as authentic except that coming directly from the Securities Exchange Commission.
Today, while there are yet many questions remaining to be solved, we know this important fact: Syphilis can be stamped out. Our problem resolves simply to finding new cases and treating them. Even with the sporadic control efforts now in effect, syphilis is barely holding its own.
Official University Bulletin
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Vol. 35 Tuesday, March 15, 1938 No.114
--everywhere simply as hypothetism.
Oh, there are still plenty of witchies in the land. We used to them—now we send them to the nearest sanitarium.
ALEE: There will be a meeting of the KU. branch of ALEE at 7:30 this evening in Marvin hall auditorium. Talking motion pictures entitled, "Moving the Millions Electrically" by Jerry Rosenberg of the Poison Company, will speak on the subject of the dangers encountered in power practice. All electricals not members of the KU. branch are also invited Refreshments will be provided—France Wilson, Chairman, KU. Branch BELE.
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE ORGANIZATION: A regular weekly meeting will be held this afternoon in room C. Myers hall. All student; and faculty member receive a e invite to attend.—Debbie Dalley, President.
COLLEGE FACULTY MEETING. The faculty of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences will meet at 4:30 this afternoon in the auditorium on the three floor of Frank Strong hall—E. H. Lindley, President
CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE LECTURE. Mr William Howie will lecture on "The Contemporary American Novel" Wednesday, March 16, at 3:30 in room 205 Fresher hall. While this lecture is primarily for freshmen, unurechsemens and graduates are encouraged—W. S. Johnson, Chairman, Department of English.
COSMOPOLITAN CLUB. The Cosmopolitan Club will hold a Swedish meeting at 8 o'clock Friday night, March 1 at 1225 Kentucky. Miss Mary E. Larson will be experienced in experiences in Rust-Youth Manors, Secretary.
GERMAN LANGUAGE TABLE. All those who wish to speak German a re invited to the German table, which meets in the range of the Union building at 15 Wellington Street, must register other a gesetzk German—W. B. Schafrath.
INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS CLUB. The International Relations Club dinner meeting is scheduled for 6 o'clock Thursday evening at Evans Hearth.-Kathryn Turner, Secretary.
JAY JANES: There will be an important meeting Wednesday afternoon at 4:30 in the Pine room. All members are required to be present—Roberta Cook, President.
NOTICE CONCERNING APPLICATION FOR POSITION OF W.S.GA. BOOK EXCHANGE MANAGER: Those interested in the position should file written application with the Committee in the office of the adviser to women, before Tuesday, March 22. Elizabeth Meguiar, Chairman.
SPANISH CLUB: El Atenco will meet this Thursday in 131 Frank Strong hall at 3:30 o'clock. This meeting will be for the election of officers for next year, so it is very important that all members be present. Refreshments will be served—Karl Ruppenthal, President.
TAU SIGMA: There will be no regular meeti
until after the recital. Rehearsals for the recital w
be as follows:
Tue--4:30 Interpretative dancing.
Wed--4:30 Modern technique
Tu--7:30 Americana
Sat--10:00 am. America
Catherine Dunkel.
W. A.A.: There will be a business meeting and initiation for new members Thursday at 4:30. After the business meeting there will be a short party—Ruth Baker, President.
University Daily Kansan
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By Kenny Lewis, c.39
Campus cries of "witch hunt" raised in connection with the proposed "red investigation" at the University, are not so ridiculous as they might seem. Students and others seeking by this epithet to cast a stigma of medievalism and superstition over the activities proposed by the salons, are evident unimply through hunting in its most literal application still ranks as a major diversion in many parts of the United States today.
For there are, still plenty of witches around, brewing their magic potions, torturing victims with the evil eye, and raising the devil literally. If you don't know the folly to account for the foliage taken from a recent survey of the witchcraft situation in contemporary America.
1937 Member 1938
Associated Collegeide Press
Witch Hunts Not Uncommon
Every year Americans spend $125,000 for witchery "cures, charms, and "fortunee" estimates leading professional magician.
Real Witch Hunts Conducted Yet in Contemporary America
Bv Kenny Lewis, c'39
F. QUENTIN BROWN
BUSINESS MANAGER... F. QUENTIN BR
A voodoo specialist in St. Louis does a thriving business selling such witches' wares as Black Cut Bones; "luck" for policy, dice, or card games, and eggs to "move" your own items to $3 to $5 for each magic article.
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Virtually every week some newspaper in the country carries a story showing that belief in some form of witchcraft still flourishes in the enlightened U.S.A. A single metropolitan daily carried eight such accounts during the past year—four of them records of actual court cases in or near the largest and most modern city in the world.
Not a month goes by but what some court in the country finds it self involved in a witchcraft case. Some of the most recent ones:
Maria Ambrosia, a Brooklyn woman, paid a "witch" $25 for a potion to win back her estranged lover. The concoction consisted of hair, powdered blood, and the bones of a murderer, to be buried in a vacant lot at the dead of night. Although the terms were complied with the lover refused to yield—so Miss Ambrosia sued.
Amatur Sleuths Replace Wichery
Nelson D. Reymeyer was murdered in York county, Pa., for a lock of his hair. His three assailants intended to bury it 8 feet under ground to break a spell which they thought he had cast over their families. In one year, the North American Review reports, 11 witchcraft murders were committed.
Although -hair-biting and amateur detecting have somewhat supplanted witch hunting in popularity today, still you might be interested in knowing a few of the criteria for identifying a witch the next time you meet one. First, there was that old matter of the "Evil Eye." Many a good witch used this method exclusively in gaining control over victims for the gratification of the devil. Then, there was the "Devil's Brand," a mark somewhere on the "Brand," usually on the private parts which would not bleed or hurt when pricked with a pin.
Union Bids-titles an opportunity and also to give the entire student body more for their Student Union fees." Offices to be established are president, vice-president and secretary of the "Student Union of the University of Kansas" and five directories. The president and vice-president will be chosen from men students with the office of secretary going to the women. Three of the board of directors will be selected by the W.S.G.A. from women students at large while the remaining
One of the best ways to test for a witch in court once, was to ask her to repeat the Lord's Prayer. If she couldn't do that on the spur of the moment, or unusually after days of witching, she was a very bad witch 'niseed'.
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Doctors Study Witches
The fact that these predominant characteristics have existed unchanged through the ages, and that most bona fides witses will admit them readily when questioned—especially with a thumb-screw—has led to the discovery of a much more effective method of dealing with witchery than marking crosses on barn doors or burning the sorcerer at the stake. Medical men investigate these criteria often for several of them which throws an entirely new light on the subject. They saw that without a doubt all of our genuine, honest- to - goodness wits suffered from some kind of nervous or mental disorder.
Anesthetic spots, for instance, which are small patches of tissue on the surface of the body of a patient suffering from hysteria, and which have no feeling in them, may be pricked with pins, tickled, or bruised without the person feeling anything at all. The "Devil's Brand," then, is merely a general symptom of the nervous disease called hysteria. The fact that there were a great many more female witches than male also checks well with the percentage of hysteria patients who are women—the ratio is 20 to 1 according to the Encyclopedia Britannica.
And the "Evil Eye," viewed scientifically, is merely a glorified version of Mesmer's old trick of "Animal Magnetism," now known to doctors
two will be filled in a similar manner by M.S.C.
Officers To Be Selected *
The three officers will be chosen by a "selections committee which shall consist of the present Union Operating Committee, excluding members from the Alumni Association and the Board of Regents." The plan provides that after this year, the directing board also will be named by the "selections committee."
Addition of the officers, directors and committees will not mean the curtailing of the present powers of the Union Operating Committee but rather is an expression of its meekness. It was said by committee officials.
The officers and board of directors will constitute the Student Union Activities board which is to be under supervision of the present O.C.
Eleven Sub-Committees
Eleven Sub-Committees
The eleven sub-commites, which
will be made up of all students who apply for appointment, will be regulated as to size and duties by the Activities Board. It was thought that a more effective program could be carried out.
It is provided specifically in the plan that "the chairman of each of the various committees shall be selected on a non-partisan basis . . . on merit of his previous work and recommendation of the retiring chairman." It is further clarified that the two men directors shall include "one from each political party."
Student committees which will be set up are: Union publicity committee, intramurals committee, camera club committee, women's affairs committee, student public relations committee, social activities committee, house and decorations committee, music committee, hobby club committee and Negro students activity committee.
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Condensed Official Statement LAWRENCE NATIONAL BANK LAWRENCE KANSAS
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
At the close of business, March 7, 1938
RESOURCES
Cash and due from Banks $1,276,916.86
United States Bonds 531,113.25
Municipal and Other Bonds 357,510.89
2,165,541.00
Banking House 22,000.00
Furniture, Fixtures and Vaults 3,600.00
Other Real Estate 11,003.00
RESOURCES
Loans ... 603.619.13
TOTAL ... $2.805.763.13
36.603.00
603.619.13
Capital 100,000.00
Surplus 60,000.00
Undivided Profits and Reserve 142,759.57
Deposits 2,503,003.56
LIABILITIES
TOTAL
$2,805,763.13
Above Statements is correct
GEO. W. KUHNE. Cashier
Deposits insured under provisions of the Federal Banking Act of 1935
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