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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE. KANSAS
WEDNESDAY, MAY 12. 1987
Comment
An Easy Cure For Gonorrhea?
Gonorrhea is a contagious, venereal disease which is at least four times as prevalent as syphilis. Even in countries where syphilis has virtually been stamped out—notably Sweden and Denmark—the finest public health campaigns have had no effect in lessening the number of persons suffering from this disease.
Public health authorities the world over have been pinning all their hopes of controlling gonorrhea upon discovery of a specific, quick cure. And now it looks as though the search has culminated with the findings of a group of doctors at John Hopkins Hospital. These doctors have found a treatment for the cure of gonorrhea which may be accomplished in three or four days with medicine taken by mouth in tablet form. The tablets cost two and a half cents at the hospital drug store and could be sold for a cent less in large quantities.
There are only a few catches in this new discovery. First, the drug has proved most successful with early acute cases of gonorrhea. And secondly, doctors warn that tablets should be given only under direction of a competent physician. Self treatment, or treatment by quacks, could be fatal.
Traditional methods of treatment of gonorrhea frequently fail to cure the disease, and furthermore, these methods are aardous and painful, and must be undergone for periods extending from six weeks to years.
So it appears that the value of this immense new discovery will be determined by the use people make of it. If medical examinations of all persons suspected of having gonorrhea could be enforced, and those found to be infected sent to physicians, its possibilities of good would be enormous.
George Bernard Shaw, England's publicity loving playwright, has announced in no uncertain terms that he will not attend the coronation of King George VI. Furthermore, Shaw added that the event is "merely a frightly lot of hunting" and "amateurish". If the Duke of Windsor and Mrs. Simpson were being crowned, he admits that he might have attended.
"Coronation?
Bah!"—G. B. Shaw
How Britain's royalty-loving public will receive Mr. Shaw's cryptic remarks is uncertain. Probably, they will blissfully ignore him, as they did on the occasion when he remarked that he could write plays better than those turned out by William Shakespeare.
However, applying the old adage that "where there's smoke there's fire," it seems quite possible that behind all Shaw's smoke there are a few burning embers.
What is the coronation, after all, but a me dieval ceremony with no vestiges of true sig nificence left to it? Just a big, high-priced show, involving too large amounts of time am money to satisfy an outworn tradition. We are moved, this once, to agree with Mr. Shaw am his unorthodox opinions.
Making The Worst of a Tragedy
Rumors of time bombs and sabotage as the cause of the Hindenburg disaster are still circulating, as government officials are delving into the wreckage for evidence of a possible cause.
When we examine the record of the dirigible, it seems hardly necessary to try to fasten the recent crash on anyone with fiendish intentions. With the exceptions of the Graf Zeppelin and the Los Angeles, every rigid airship has died a natural death without the aid of time bombs or incendiary. Without a doubt, Nazi officials, dirigible officers and other supporters of the rigid airship as a means of conveyance would feel much better if they could pin the cause of the blast onto any group of men and punish them for the deed. But if this were done it still would not guarantee the dirigible as a safe means of transportation.
Based on its own merits and history, the dirigible is not worthy of further risk of human life and government expenditure.
Ab. A
Concrete Example
What is the difference, a reader asks, between Socialists, Communists and Fascists? We thought we had answered that. We have
The Kansan Platform
1. A well-rounded varsity athletic program.
2. Behavior of student working conditions.
4. An adequate building program, including:
a. Construction of a medical science building.
o. Addition to the stacks of the library.
5. Restoration of faculty and employee salaries.
tried to do so, not once, but several times. Maybe we got involved. Maybe we used long words. Anyway, we apparently failed to give that perfect expression to that perfection of thought which is recognized as final. Our excuse is that it is no simple matter to distinguish among political practices which are increasingly similar.
So we will try again, this time with a concrete example. We did not invent the example; it came to us from Europe, and must be authentic. Here it is:
Question: What is the difference between Socialists, Communists and Fascists?
Answer: If you have six cows, the Socialists take three, and leave you three; the Communists take all six; the Fascists leave you all six and make you feed them, but they take the milk.
Now is that clear?
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The Lusitania was sunk 22 years ago last week, back in that period before the world was made safe for democracy.—New York Post.
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What the devil's the matter with the Dove? Never have I seen such a lovely issue. That publication could really amount to something, perhaps a lot of good but pot, if it keeps coming the way it is.
All I can say in this: I should have seen I no horrible conception. I'm supposed to be pretty liberal my thoughts, but I still have no sense of what I'm thinking.
Why must it be so poorly written, so bitter, so vindictive? Can't the boys go about it in a decent way? It would help a lot, too, if the thing would have sides of the question—after all, it calls itself liberal.
Official University Bulletin
--is absolutely inert in all chemical reactions, and Kansas wells have relatively high helium content."
Vol. 34 WEDNESDAY, MAY 12. 1937 No. 152
FENCING CLUB: There will be an important event on Thursday, February 18th from 7:30 in the gymnasium for election of officers. A tournament will be held and refreshments will be served. Everyone please be present - Grace Pearson, Secreta
GERMAN LANGUAGE TABLE: The German Language Table will have the last meeting of the school year at 5.45 this evening in the main lounge of the Union building—Sam Anderson.
JAY JANES: There will be a tea in the women's lounge of Central Administration building this afternoon.—Please wear uniforms and bring receipt books Pledge brings dues." Roberts, Cooke, President.
LE CERCLE FRANCAISE: Le Cercule Franconie will have a picnic Friday at 4:30 at Lake Tanganquo. Those who wish to go see Robert Pyle for details—Julie teehg, Vice President.
MEN AND WOMENS' RIFLE TEAMS: The annual spring picnic will be held on May 16, at Tommycox State Lake. Meet at Fowler Shops at Women's Rifle Team—Helen Ward, Captain Women's Rifle Team.
MID-KEEP DANCE CANCELLED. There will be no mid-week dance this evening, due to a Lawrence High School High-Home banquet—W. W. Cochrane, Manager Memorial Union Building.
PHI DELTA KAPPA: Mr. J. E. Jacobs, principal of the Lawrence Junior High school, will be the speaker at a meeting to be held Thursday evening in the Gates Building at Oral Training School - Gilbert Ulmer, President.
QUACK CLUB: There will be an all-night picture for members and weddings Saturday, May 15, at the Tonganoxic State Lake. Cars will also meet Sunday morning. Intimation of new members and election of new year will be held. These planning to go must sign at the gymnasium by Thursday.-Marjorie Rowland.
SETSE POOC: There will be a picnic Sunday afternoon, May 16. Cars will leave promptly at 4 oclock, and who will wish may return by 6:30, arrested and released. Lois Koehler - Catherine Harold, Harold Dyer, Co-Chairman.
WORLD AFFAIRS COMMISSION: There will be a meeting at 4:30 on Wednesday at Henley House. Gentrude Field will speak about her summer in Europe...-Gevene Landrith.
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Helium, the gas which wasn't used in the Hindenburg "because it was too expensive" was discovered by Dr. H. P. Cady, of the University of Kansas department of chemistry, when samples of a gas "which wouldn't burn" were sent to the department from a gas well near Deter in 1906.
The discovery was of little importance, however, as the cost of extracting the helium from the natural gas was prohibitive, since there was little practical use for the gas at that time.
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With the war, the need for a nonflammal gas was killed by the War department, who died Dr. Cady to find an natural gas supply with sufficient helium to make extraction feasible for use as a substitute for the dangerous hydrogen gas which was used in airships until Cady's discoveries made helium available. The Germans, who suffered because they did not use helium in the Hindenburg, were, strangely enough, the cause of its commercialization and development. Their use of tracer bullets to set fire to American balloons made the hydrogen bags so unsafe that the government An helium-filled a substitute gas. An helium-filled balloon, found, although filled with bullet holes, would merely sink slowly to the ground, never bursting into flames.
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Test wells were then drilled throughout the district, and only one, near Ft. Worth, was successful.
The government immediately set up a separating plant there, and began the shipment of the precious gas to France.
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Prof. W. J. Baumgartner, of the department of zoology, announced yesterday that the fortieth issue of the "Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science," of which he is managing editor, is nearly completed. This volume, containing the work of Kansas scientists and graduates of the University of Kansas and Kansas State College, will have 300 pages of printed matter and 50 pages of illustrations. Besides the scientific reports, the business report of the last meeting of the academy and a short biography of five deceased members will be included.
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